Not sure what you want to do with the shadows but you could try
putting a reflector on the dark side to kick some light back in. White
foamcore makes a great reflector and it's cheap!
Lea
life is short. photograph it.
www.leamurphy.com
On Mar 21, 2008, at 10:53 PM, Jason Davis <mohadib@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thak you all for the replies. Mark I read your article and found it
very informitive , thanks.
Im still feel very uninformed , so I'm going to hold off for a while.
I rented the lights
again for the weekend. Its rental fees and a little extra are coverd
by my very first client :)
Please take a look and give me any input you will :)
Thanks,
jd
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4853/smallhorzdn7.jpg
This one is for me , Im going to work on it to try to make it feel
a little more rich and less monochromatic
http://papernapkin.org/pastebin/resource/images/imageEntryId/181
But i would really like to do something with the shadows. Any
pointers or ideas?
thanks again :)
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:29 AM, herschel
<herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is interesting to note how my flash-power requirements have
changed with
trends in photography.
Now that shallow depth of field is trendy, I have a slew of f:1.4
and f:1.8
lenses which I'm using on my D2X. (The 85mm f:1.4 is a honey!)
With smaller sensor sizes/decreased magnification, and the resulting
increase of DOF, you need very fast and expensive lenses to make
your pics
look like they were shot on a $5 Lomo.
But I do love those natural light, backlit, lifestylish images with
shallow
DOF that are popular in commercial photography these days.
Portraits by window-light at f:2.0 (Carefully focused) knock the
spots off
those f:22 old-fashioned studio images with perfect light ratios
I find that my 2400WS pack is out of service and even my 500W
Bowens heads
are too powerful to get apertures of f:4 or wider... so I have now
bought a
collection of ND filters... mmm at 55 I'm a spendoid-trendoid!
Still it's cheaper than going 4X5 digital.
Before you tell me to shoot large format film and scan it etc...
Here in Oman we don't have 4X5 E6 film processing available. Nor do
I have a
scanner which could handle it.
That's all folks
herschel
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-
photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jason Davis
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:10 AM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Looking to buy some strobe flashes
Hello,
I'm a total newb at lighting. I have rented some strobes and I
really
like playing with them. But its costing me $125 a day for 2
lights ,
umbrellas , stands , battery pack,
wireless sync thing..
I have no clue if thats a good price or not.. Anyway , I see lots
of
affordable lights for sale on the internet , and the owner of the
store i rent from offerd me 2
300w/s strobe heads for $700. I cant remember the brand name :\ To
finaly get to the ponit... :p Can you guys point me at some
information for beginners looking
to buy lights? Stuff that can help me figure out what i want/need
and
information to help me know what kind of price I should look to
pay.
Thank You,
Jason
