igord Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 Hi, This is one of the photos taken from my last shooting. Please feel free to comment. Igor<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yance_marti Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 Nice lighting but I would have added fill in the face. The sidelight on the face is very unflattering. She looks like she is pretty otherwise, help her out a little and keep her that way :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minh_thai Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 I'm curious as to what the purpose of the shooting was: product promotion, model portfolio or your own portfolio. I would like to see pictures with the model from different angles as well. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kei n. Posted January 10, 2004 Share Posted January 10, 2004 Igor, Thanks for the post again. It's nice of you to share your work. Nice pose by the model. IMO - I wouldn't have cropped at her elbow (would've left space on the left. Also, I would've used the background to better effect - you're shooting in a corner of a room so I think it would be better to utilize the lines. One way to do this is to light one part of the background (the darker side of the model's face) and keep the other side of the background dark (the lighter side of the model's face). This is just my own taste and may be irrelevant to your case. Having said that - it's still an interesting shot - the model's pose is certainly the strongest element in this picture from the small triangular effect of her left arm on top to the larger triangular effect of her right arm - imagine if you had used the vertical line of the wall in the background wall and the lower horizontal lines of it also - do you think it would have enhanced the composition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_oneill Posted January 10, 2004 Share Posted January 10, 2004 Two things. (1)Cropping. With the edge of the frame going through the elbow and the fingers it looks accidental (doubly so with the scarf over the fingers). Either give more room, or crop more tightly, but you've ended in no mans land. <p> (2)Lighting from one side and putting the face in (partly) in shaddow does work, but it looks like you have the flash too close, and not diffused enough. You can have a look at <a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/1814157&size=lg">This one of mine</a> for the idea - I thought I had some other, better, ones uploaded, but apparantly not. I still got a bit of a hotspot because I had the model too close to the light.<p> Once you get that right, you can the decide how much light (if any) you want to reflect into the face to reduce the shadow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_levine Posted January 10, 2004 Share Posted January 10, 2004 That arm looks like "Drew's in the movie Deliverance",it appears to be at a very un-natural angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twmeyer Posted January 10, 2004 Share Posted January 10, 2004 Igor, the dynamic range of your lighting has exceeded your media's capacity to record. That or your scanning isn't getting the complete range that your film has, or something. Hightlights are gone and the dark wardrobe is disappearing into the background.<p> Regarding composition, I think it's too tight on the left, and there's nothing going on at the right. Had you been able to bring the tone of the background up a bit, the right side would have enough visual weight to balance the frame. Bringing the highlights back to something would also help the balance of the composition. As it is, the blown highlights so close to the left edge and the murky shadows dominating the right side makes an image that's just too out of balance... t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igord Posted January 10, 2004 Author Share Posted January 10, 2004 Yeah, the scan is scr... up as usual. Must scan it once more. I love not using fill. In the analog print you see some details in shadows. Just wanted to do someting like Rembrandt lighting (I shouldn't call his name...). I used 2 silver umbrellas, one softbox and 3 large reflectors so it is all diffused. Composition is done according to the classic painters, the dominant eye is in the middle of the picture (search through the archives someone wrote about it and left even a link). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igord Posted January 10, 2004 Author Share Posted January 10, 2004 James this is not lighting from one side... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igord Posted January 10, 2004 Author Share Posted January 10, 2004 When you put the light close to the object you get more tonality, smaller shadow and bigger "half shadow"; moving the light away gives you "spot effect". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph_wisniewski Posted January 10, 2004 Share Posted January 10, 2004 Two things. 1) I think a longer lens and more distance would help with the arms, made them look more the smae size. 2) This is the third pic you've posted that had a clipped body part which I found distracting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igord Posted January 11, 2004 Author Share Posted January 11, 2004 Joseph, specially for you something "unclipped" this time! Thanks for watching!<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twmeyer Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 This is a much better image, for all the reasons that the first is lacking. Balance, tone, perspective and human presence... t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igord Posted January 11, 2004 Author Share Posted January 11, 2004 I send the third one.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkantor Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 Much nicer, although I'd like to see a hairlight. I think one problem with the first one is that the model's face is too relaxed and giving a less than even look to her face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igord Posted January 12, 2004 Author Share Posted January 12, 2004 My inspiration for lighting was rather this: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/1650/hendrickje.jpg http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/1650/stofells.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Igor, you're awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twmeyer Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Regarding the hairlight point that John makes, I'd rather leave her hair dark and have the tonality of the background extend up the frame to her head, in the same value as it is at her waist... t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igord Posted January 13, 2004 Author Share Posted January 13, 2004 I did hair for these shots, it was my first time, hehe... I would leave hair in a shadow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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