mcfingon
Western Australia
Congratulations Lukitas! I thought you had gone for a Monochrom, those shots looked so good. You're producing excellent tones and sharpness from the Fuji. I chose to go with an A7S for my digital gas attack, and I'm enjoying that too.
lukitas
second hand noob
Thanks everybody,
I'm not that much of an expert, the lighting set-up is an easy classic : Soft light from the front to one side, hard light from the back to the other side. For a sweet and flattering portrait, point the face towards the soft light. In the sixties and seventies, you could find hundreds of these in the shop-windows of photographers.
Point the side of the head to the soft light for a more sculptural effect : the front of the face is in shadow, the wrinkles become more apparent. In the 70ties and 80ties, you could find diagrams for something like this in all the photo-magazines, with learnéd expositions about ratios of light and candle feet.
And the pose is an old stand-by too. I think it was invented by a painter doing a self-portrait : the painter is sitting square to his canvas, an then looks to his side at the mirror. The shape of the head is shown front and side, the shoulders at an angle flatter the torso, and the eyes looking from the side make for an interesting look.
It is amazing, how just following the rules can get you so much satisfaction. Nothing 'new', nothing 'creative', but still a very effective way to organise a portrait.
Now I'm dreaming of doing 'royal' portraits of my friends. Sitting or standing full figure, with 'attributes' and a curtain acting floppy behind them.
Here's a picture of my mum, she's a painter :
Cheers
I'm not that much of an expert, the lighting set-up is an easy classic : Soft light from the front to one side, hard light from the back to the other side. For a sweet and flattering portrait, point the face towards the soft light. In the sixties and seventies, you could find hundreds of these in the shop-windows of photographers.
Point the side of the head to the soft light for a more sculptural effect : the front of the face is in shadow, the wrinkles become more apparent. In the 70ties and 80ties, you could find diagrams for something like this in all the photo-magazines, with learnéd expositions about ratios of light and candle feet.
And the pose is an old stand-by too. I think it was invented by a painter doing a self-portrait : the painter is sitting square to his canvas, an then looks to his side at the mirror. The shape of the head is shown front and side, the shoulders at an angle flatter the torso, and the eyes looking from the side make for an interesting look.
It is amazing, how just following the rules can get you so much satisfaction. Nothing 'new', nothing 'creative', but still a very effective way to organise a portrait.
Now I'm dreaming of doing 'royal' portraits of my friends. Sitting or standing full figure, with 'attributes' and a curtain acting floppy behind them.
Here's a picture of my mum, she's a painter :
Cheers
mcfingon
Western Australia
It all adds up Lukitas, I can see where the graphical talent is coming from. Trying not to add to your GAS, but my son who has a sexy one Fuji says the best carry-around lens for it is the 27mm f2.8. Very compact and good. You can pretend it's a Leica CL and 40 Summicron combo.