Re: single light portraits

2008-10-24 Thread William Robb 


- Original Message - 
From: "Joseph McAllister" 
Subject: Re: single light portraits






I believe everything on this page was done with a single beauty dish.

http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/lyndsaye/lyndsaye1.html

I like single light portraiture, I suppose because I'm just not  
competent to use more than that..




With two shadows?


Right you are, I did have a weak fill on those ones.
My bad.

William Robb

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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-24 Thread John Sessoms 

From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Scott Loveless"

Subject: single light portraits



> Heya!
>
> Anyone have any single light portraits to share?  Also, what are you
> opinions are using a single light?


I believe everything on this page was done with a single beauty dish.

http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/lyndsaye/lyndsaye1.html


They're all done with 2 lights, except for perhaps the top one. It's 
hard to tell about that one; but all the rest, just look down at the 
feet, and you can see two shadows from main & fill.


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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-24 Thread Joseph McAllister 

On Oct 23, 2008, at 23:12 , William Robb wrote:


- Original Message - From: "Scott Loveless"
Subject: single light portraits



Heya!

Anyone have any single light portraits to share?  Also, what are you
opinions are using a single light?


I believe everything on this page was done with a single beauty dish.

http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/lyndsaye/lyndsaye1.html

I like single light portraiture, I suppose because I'm just not  
competent to use more than that..


William Robb



With two shadows?

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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-24 Thread Bruce Dayton 
Hello Scott,

It usually works better than zero light portraits .  I have
only limited experience using one light - almost always use two.  But
what I have found is the one light tends to create more dramatic
highlight/shadows.  The second light is used most of the time to
bring up the shadows to make the picture not so strong.

So I would say it can be used ok - also if you have any means of
bouncing light - like a reflector or white wall then you can
compensate for not having the second light to some degree.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008, 9:52:44 AM, you wrote:

SL> Heya!

SL> Anyone have any single light portraits to share?  Also, what are you
SL> opinions are using a single light?




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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-24 Thread William Robb 


- Original Message - 
From: "Scott Loveless"

Subject: single light portraits



Heya!

Anyone have any single light portraits to share?  Also, what are you
opinions are using a single light?


I believe everything on this page was done with a single beauty dish.

http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/lyndsaye/lyndsaye1.html

I like single light portraiture, I suppose because I'm just not competent to 
use more than that..


William Robb 



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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-24 Thread David J Brooks 
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Heya!
>>
>> Anyone have any single light portraits to share?  Also, what are you
>> opinions are using a single light?
>>
>
> David Bailey famously used only one light. When asked why he replied "'cause
> there's only one f_cking sun".
>
> If it's good enough for Rembrandt...

Wonder if he used Pentax paints. Probably not, the paintings would
have looked soft before post painting.

Dave

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RE: single light portraits

2008-10-24 Thread mike wilson 

> 
> From: "John Celio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2008/10/23 Thu PM 07:30:58 GMT
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> Subject: RE: single light portraits
> 
> >> http://tinyurl.com/5bpnrz
> >>
> >
> > My gosh, is it really 1870 again? ]:-)
> 
> Heard it before.  I've had this style for two days now and have already
> heard every possible taunt and tease under the sun.
> 
> John

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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-23 Thread David Savage 


Single AF-540 FGZ fired through white umbrella.

Cheers,

Dave

2008/10/24 Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Heya!
>
> Anyone have any single light portraits to share?  Also, what are you
> opinions are using a single light?

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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi 


On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Scott Loveless wrote:


Thanks, Godfrey.  That's pretty impressive with a built in flash.

Today, I finally got around to figuring out how to fire the AF-360
wirelessly with any old flash gun.  Which means I can put the old
Vivitar on the 645, point it where ever, and have the 360 illuminate
the subject.  And that's just coolio.


Thank you.

I often use a flash unit with a hot-shoe remote cord, flash held in my  
hand, or fired via a slave (I use a little Nikon SB-30 that Adam Maas  
recommended as a trigger flash, it works a treat for this kind of  
thing). The SB-30 has an IR shield for the tube so that it doesn't add  
to the exposure at all.


Godfrey

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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-23 Thread Scott Loveless 
On 10/23/08, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  On Oct 23, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Scott Loveless wrote:
>
>
> > Anyone have any single light portraits to share?  Also, what are you
> > opinions are using a single light?
> >
>
>  I tend to use mostly single light sources in portraiture, usually combining
> a single light with something to diffuse it so that it is a broad light
> source.
>
>  Here I used a convenient low, sloping ceiling and an index card to direct
> the light from the L1's built-in flash, in bounce position:
>
>   http://homepage.mac.com/godders/159-cpportrait.jpg
>
>  And here I used the same bounce flash capability but reflecting it with my
> hand ...
>
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/godders/160-self-portrait-2.jpg
>
>  I find single-light source portraiture simple and effective, as long as you
> get the lighting set up correctly.

Thanks, Godfrey.  That's pretty impressive with a built in flash.

Today, I finally got around to figuring out how to fire the AF-360
wirelessly with any old flash gun.  Which means I can put the old
Vivitar on the 645, point it where ever, and have the 360 illuminate
the subject.  And that's just coolio.

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RE: single light portraits

2008-10-23 Thread Bob W 
> Heya!
> 
> Anyone have any single light portraits to share?  Also, what are you
> opinions are using a single light?
> 

David Bailey famously used only one light. When asked why he replied "'cause
there's only one f_cking sun".

If it's good enough for Rembrandt...

Bob


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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-23 Thread Scott Loveless 
On 10/23/08, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> http://tinyurl.com/5bpnrz
>  > >>
>  > >
>  > > My gosh, is it really 1870 again? ]:-)
>  >
>  > Heard it before.  I've had this style for two days now and have already
>  > heard every possible taunt and tease under the sun.
>  >
>
>
> If you had sex with Christopher Marlowe your baby would have a full beard!

Ack!  Get it out of my head!

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RE: single light portraits

2008-10-23 Thread Bob W 
> >> http://tinyurl.com/5bpnrz
> >>
> >
> > My gosh, is it really 1870 again? ]:-)
> 
> Heard it before.  I've had this style for two days now and have already
> heard every possible taunt and tease under the sun.
> 

If you had sex with Christopher Marlowe your baby would have a full beard!

Bob


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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-23 Thread Charles Robinson 

On Oct 23, 2008, at 14:30, John Celio wrote:


http://tinyurl.com/5bpnrz



My gosh, is it really 1870 again? ]:-)


Heard it before.  I've had this style for two days now and have  
already

heard every possible taunt and tease under the sun.



Oh, I'll bet there are more out there you've not heard yet.

:-)

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RE: single light portraits

2008-10-23 Thread John Celio 
>> http://tinyurl.com/5bpnrz
>>
>
> My gosh, is it really 1870 again? ]:-)

Heard it before.  I've had this style for two days now and have already
heard every possible taunt and tease under the sun.

John

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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi 


On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:17 PM, John Celio wrote:


Speaking of self-portraits, and since I only own one P-TTL flash (I've
got other slave flashes, but rarely use them), here's something I  
shot a
couple nights ago, to illustrate the new beard style I chose for my  
30th

birthday:

http://tinyurl.com/5bpnrz

The flash was dangling from the end of my Promaster off-camera cord,
between the tripod legs, bouncing down off the off-white carpets.   
K10D

with D-FA 100mm and 540FGZ.

If anyone has a top hat and monocle I could borrow, they might go well
with my muttonchops. ;)


My gosh, is it really 1870 again? ]:-)

Godfrey

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RE: single light portraits

2008-10-23 Thread John Celio 
>> Anyone have any single light portraits to share? Also, what are you
>> opinions are using a single light?
>
> 
> And here I used the same bounce flash capability but reflecting it 
> with my hand ...
> http://homepage.mac.com/godders/160-self-portrait-2.jpg

Speaking of self-portraits, and since I only own one P-TTL flash (I've
got other slave flashes, but rarely use them), here's something I shot a
couple nights ago, to illustrate the new beard style I chose for my 30th
birthday:

http://tinyurl.com/5bpnrz

The flash was dangling from the end of my Promaster off-camera cord,
between the tripod legs, bouncing down off the off-white carpets.  K10D
with D-FA 100mm and 540FGZ.

If anyone has a top hat and monocle I could borrow, they might go well
with my muttonchops. ;)

John

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Re: single light portraits

2008-10-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi 


On Oct 23, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Scott Loveless wrote:


Anyone have any single light portraits to share?  Also, what are you
opinions are using a single light?


I tend to use mostly single light sources in portraiture, usually  
combining a single light with something to diffuse it so that it is a  
broad light source.


Here I used a convenient low, sloping ceiling and an index card to  
direct the light from the L1's built-in flash, in bounce position:


  http://homepage.mac.com/godders/159-cpportrait.jpg

And here I used the same bounce flash capability but reflecting it  
with my hand ...


  http://homepage.mac.com/godders/160-self-portrait-2.jpg

I find single-light source portraiture simple and effective, as long  
as you get the lighting set up correctly.


Godfrey

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