[pure-silver] Re: Hello
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:21:42 -0700
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From: "B P" <peeperphotos@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:21 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Hello
The website is gone but I do have a picasa album. The
images are all a few
years old. http://picasaweb.google.com/peeperphotos I was
and still am a
student with a lot to learn. Especially on the technical
side of things. I'd
like to learn about lighting and do some still life and
maybe try my hand at
figure studies at some point in time. But first I have to
figure out
lighting and I don't have any experience with that at all
so it should be a
fun adventure to say the least. But first things first,
getting out the
cameras and asking their forgiveness for the lack of
attention.
I'll get some photos of the darkroom for you and post them
in a picasa album
for you. :)
btw Peeper is my last name. I went back to my maiden name.
^^^^^^
What a name for a photographer:-)
Becky Lynn
Becky, this is serously good work. Whatever shortcomings
you think you have for technical knowledge you have the
"eye" and I don't think that can be taught.
There are books on lighting but I think the best way to
learn that is practice. After a while you get so you can
look at pictures or movies and analyse the lighting.
You can always be your own model. For portraits or even
figure studies use a large mirror to see what you look like.
Bunny Yeager, who was a famous pin-up photographer of the
1950's and 1960's was also a top pin-up model and wrote a
book on how she photgraphed herself. Marlena Detrich, who
probably had more technical knowledge than most of the
people she worked with, also always had a large mirror
located at the camera to check her lighting.
You can make a test light by mounting a nite-lite type
reflector on the end of a stick, something like a curtain
rod of a tube from the lamp supply store. This can be used
to explore the effect of light from different directions by
moving it around the subject (including yourself).
Eventually, you will not need it to know where to place
lights to get a desired effect.
An old book which I found helpful and is now available in
reprint editions is _Painting with Light_ by John Alton.
Alton was a well known director of photography in Hollywood
and this is one of the very few books that actually explains
how movie lighting was done. My exploring stick light comes
from this book.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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