[pure-silver] Re: Hello
- From: "B P" <peeperphotos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:30:00 -0700
Someone get me some tissues!! You're all so sweet... I missed you guys!!!
Your words give me strength and encourage me to make you all proud.
On 9/13/07, Mark Blackwell <mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Richard the biggest problem Becky has can be summed up in one single
> word. Confidence and maybe we all have problems with that at times. Her
> old work speaks for itself and work she would produce now would likely be
> better. It should be in galleries now.
>
> New maybe, but Beginner??? I think not. Just have the confidence to
> believe that your work really is as good as it is. I am not sure that an
> eye can't be taught or learned. Talent at some point enters into the
> picture, but few have it come as naturally as Becky.
>
> Hey Becky if you get the chance drop me a note off list.
>
> *Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B P"
> To:
> 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.
>
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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