RE: Why not...SHADOW SIDE LIGHT!
- From: "BOB KISS" <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:50:39 -0400
DEAR JIM ET AL,
I am jumping in late here but I hope you might find my 2 cents worth
while. I agree completely that there is so much more sense of volume,
texture, space, etc. when shooting from the "shadow side". But there are
shadows and there are shadows...very much a matter of degree. Sometimes we
want deep black shadows and other times we might want a little more subtlety
or even just a touch of detail deep down in the shadows. The best way to
accomplish this is with a reflector of varying diffuseness and reflectivity
depending on what you want. If used properly a reflector does not give the
sense of another light source...it just very subtly opens up the shadows to
give as much or as little detail as you want, remembering that neither film
nor digital capture systems have the dynamic range of the human visual
system.
"To fill or not to fill" will always depend on what the photographer
wants in the final image. I am only suggesting that a fill reflector of the
correct type, used properly, can give the photographer incredibly subtle
control over the shadows without looking like another source.
CHEERS!
BOB
-----Original Message-----
From: leica-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:leica-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jim Brick
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 10:17 PM
To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Why not...SHADOW SIDE LIGHT!
At 05:03 PM 11/11/2007 -0500, Douglas Herr wrote:
>There are several nature/wildlife photography websites where
>critques of a photo made from the shadow side invariably include a
>suggestion to add some fill flash to get rid of the shadows. I COULD
SCREAM!!!
I hear you. The problem with fill ANYTHING, is that it looks like a
fill light. It is impossible to fool mother nature and 'real' photographers.
Using a fill light is like using a pinhole camera... take pictures
using a pinhole camera and what do you get - photographs that look
like they were taken with a pinhole camera. Use a fill light, or
reflector, or anything and the photograph will look like you used a
fill light, or reflector, or anything!
A zoologist, botanist, or biologist will want a fill light because
they are interested in only the plant/animal, and not the
photography. So let them take their own pictures!
IMHO,
Jim
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