perkins

sorry about the link...

 

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i174/mischieftech/P7060064.jpg

I have searched for quite a while but havent found anything so if there is a

toppic about this already i apologize.

 

 

I am very curious how to achieve this kind of lighting effect. I have a class

assignment that i am shooting tomorrow evening and i cant seem to figure it out

enough to be satisfied with my results. Any advice?

 

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i174/mischieftech/P7060064.jpg

 

 

I gather there is a hair/highlight light and a drastically underpowered fill

light to achieve the dark front. But ive tried this on my own and am just not

getting what i think it should be.

 

Ive asked another forum and a few of them have said they think it is simple

sunlight from a skylight type source...

 

your thoughts?

its not so much the panoramic style view that i like to get, its more of the perspective distortion from the foreground and background that i like to get. i dont take many shots that would look good panoramic...

well thanks guys, all that info together honestly makes it crystal clear. thanks. but unfortunatly now this means i dont have a true wide angle lense :( time to start savin up again...

Im not sure how much this will help you, but i have a book and a lighting set up thats mentioned in it is described as the "traditional horror" look used in early cenima. The way its set up in the book is rather simple if you have the equipment (im sure once you understand it you can modify it for a poor man like i do ;) ). waht they do is light a background/drop evenly at 45 degree angles with two flash units. they have a soft box as a main light infront of the subject (behind the photographer) and two ubrella units infront of the photographer. now what they did to achieve this "horror" look is simply remove the soft box main light. this left the umbrellas as the main light. they are positioned low to the groun and pointed upwards at the subjects face. also they are not as powerful as the original main light. so to put it very simply, use the old flashlight under the face technique if ya know what i mean. hope that helps ya some.

I've learned that digital camera lenses arent quite equal to the standard 35mm

lenses as far as focal point measurements and such. i.e. a 10mm-22mm digital

lense is roughly equal to about a 16mm-35mm focal length of a standard 35mm

camera. Im curious as to why this is. and also i was wondering if there was a

chart or overall conversion table of some sort that might help me in lense

selections and shooting and what not. any input would be neat :)

im rather new here and havent really rated that many photos. to me the TRP as yall put it is like a selection of the best photos on here. I use many of them as inspiration and guidlines for my own work. but like others have said... if you can get your work into the top, 100 even, its quit an accomplishment in my eyes because it means people really like your work and are acrediting you with the honor.

 

makes sense? probably not but oh well.

I'm watching the movie V for Vendetta. for those who havent seen it, the main

charactor "V" wheres a Guy Fawkes mask for the entire movie. naturally you cant

see his eyes ever. this forces him to use body language to convey his meaning,

intent, thoughts and emotions. This made me wonder... nearly every artist ive

EVER talked to says the eyes are the window to the soul. they convey all the

thoughts and emotions a person can have and capturing the eyes, is in many ways

the key to sucess. but ones body language can also achieve this. the movie is

a prime example of it. so the question is, which do you feel shows MORE than

the other?

ok my first question is, is a UV Haze filter the same as an Ultraviolet filter?

 

 

second question is, i was looking at getting a new UV filter ofr a lense im

about to get, and the sample image they showed me showed that the image with out

the filter was indeed less colorful then the filtered one. but also, the

filterless image was much sharper than the one WITH the filter. now i keep a UV

filter on my camera pretty much all the time to help protect the lense. but

lately im notcing that my images are coming out blurry no matter what i do. i

naturally thought i just had camera shake issues.. but now i think it may be the

filter?

 

the clearest image ive ever gotten was of my hnad the day i got the camera. 2

days later i got the UV filter and havent removed it since... what do yall thinik?

well i dont have any professional experience, just some photo shoots here and there. but usually i actually get rid of the crappy ones before i even show them the good ones. so if they ask to see the crap ones im not lying when i say they cant...

Ok, i have a new model whom isnt all too familiar with modeling "artisticly"

speaking. she has had some experience with fashion modeling however. the

problem im facing on her end is getting the correct expressions for shoots. i

suppose it may be on my end too. anyways, i was wondering if anyone had any

suggestions, books, websites, or anything of the like, that may help me and her

get more emotion and feelings from her face and eyes. things i can tell her, or

thinks i can learn, or practice techniques i can have her do...? anything would

be of some help.