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<p>Hi <a href="../photodb/user?user_id=2403817">Rodeo</a>, let's face it - the "harsh hard light" on the first image is nicely balanced with a fill. Why not to call it beautiful if it makes the image looking great? (along with the other techniques) Or does it require a truck of lighting equipment in order to be called beautiful? For the purple shadows - wrong bet, it is actually very trendy to shift shadows to blue/purple, so it was done on purpose I'm sure.</p>

<p>Cheers,<br>

Renat<br>

<a href="http://www.renat.ca">Fashion Photography Vancouver Toronto</a></p>

<p>Shine? What shine? :)<br>

Agree with <a href="../photodb/user?user_id=17942">Ellis Vener</a> + lots of photoshop.</p>

<p>Cheers,<br>

<a href="http://www.renat.ca">Renat - Fashion & Advertising Photography</a></p>

<p>I'm surprised you would have to worry about this type of issues at all. I have some spare strobes that I use rarely, but they are like 8 years old, and they are still working just fine, even though they spend some months in a closet. <br>

Cheers,<br>

<a href="http://www.renat.ca">Fashion photography, Renat Touichev</a></p>

<p>Great work! Yes, it is mostly just a natural light + a passive fill source (reflector/panel). For the lens - it is hard to say exactly, but I would guess - in some shots it is 35 to 50mm, in some longer i.e. 85mm. You should be fine to do anything like that with just 50mm.<br>

Cheers,<br>

<a href="http://www.renat.ca">Fashion photographer - Renat Touichev</a></p>

<p>I think the model was shot normally with her arms up and then photoshopped in to the second image. Actually a very good example of a job done poorly.</p>

<p>Renat,<br>

<a href="http://www.renat.ca">fashion photography - Toronto Montreal</a></p>

<p>Hey Dylan,<br>

the best thing you can do is to obtain a very minimal equipment, and start shooting as much and as often as you can. At some point you will be noticing what style you prefer the best, and what works for you. You will find a style and techniques that fit your mind. It takes some time. For some less for some longer, but if talent is there, and you gain a skill it will come out in the form of imagery. Photography is not a math, there is no such a formula for success, you have to explore.<br>

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<p>when you say beauty shots - do you mean closeup or head and shoulder kind of shots? I would suggest you get something from 85mm and up for that application. 50mm is ok but geometric distortions will be much more pronounced. For the waist level portraits 50mm should be all right.<br>

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Roger,

I was planning to get Epson R2400 so my i960 was kinda an old thing to try on. And also I though I would rather sacrifice its ability to print color for making it able to print bw since I shoot bw a lot. I'm amazed how good the results are. Don't forget to apply levels with output level value set to 100 (it is a bottom left slider to be moved to the right)

Roger,

I printed a geadient from black to white with entire tonal range within and it looks absolutely smooth. By the way I correct density with the levels layer.

Hi,

I was playing with my old i960 trying to make it printing BW. From the past

experience I knew it would not do it nicely since it uses all the color

cartridges and would result in some purple and green casting - very unpleasant.

So, I replaced all the cartridges with black ones, except the yellow one (just

to keep it slightly warm) and was quite surprised with the results. Very nice BW

prints I've got from it. Not the gallery quality, but definitely something

useful. The important key here is to apply a levels layer in ps prior to

printing with the output level value set to 100, just to compensate the fact of

using black instead of gray. Try it - you will like it.

Hi All,

I just got it from eBay and noticed that there is some strange sound

inside the lens when I move it up and down. Like some gear is moving

inside. Is it normal for that model?

Thanks!