Becky, anyone who can bring fresh air from a goat shed is obviously incredibly talented (and your images show it).
-Bill On Sep 14, 2007, at 12:30 AM, B P wrote:
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====================================================================== ======================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers , not web links.
