You can make the highlights any shape you want by modifying the front of your softbox with black material, hexagons=umbrellas, squares/rectangles=softbox, rings(?)=ringlites (probably, more usual for macro shots but popular at one time for fashion work) darkroommike ---------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Eichhorn" <eichhorn@uh.edu> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:29 PM Subject: Re: Photo in New Yorker > Emily, > > I recall seeing little white hexagons in the eyes of portraits shown > in an exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences several years > ago. I assumed that they were images of the photographer's umbrella > flash setup, or the diaphragm in the camera lens -- essentially > reflections from the surface of the eyeball. Every portrait had > them. Is this a possible explanation? > > Roger > > >I've been looking through New Yorkers the last few weeks, when I'm > >not trying to work, or when the computer is bugging me. > > > >And I've come across a photo of Max Roach by Martin Schoeller, > >published in the June 5, 2000 New Yorker. > > > >Now I know there's hardly any chance that more than four people on > >this list have kept their New Yorkers back that far, but if you're > >among them I'd appreciate if you'd take a look at that photograph, > >on page 91, and tell me what you think makes the little tiny white > >rings in the corneas of Roach's eyes. > > > >thanks > > > -- >
