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I'm learning portrait photography. I do a lot of black and white work but I
also do a lot of beach/bikini color photo shots (seems thats all everybody wants here in Hawaii). I'm about to purchase a reflector to hopefully improve the look of my photos. I'm getting a Lastolite Tri-grip reflector. My question is which colors will work best with the type of photography I'm doing? The sunfire/silver or white/silver? Money is tight so I have to buy one reflector that will adapt to black-n-white and color. Thanks. Sean |
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relfector type ?
I'm learning portrait photography. I do a lot of black and white work but I also do a lot of beach/bikini color photo shots (seems thats all everybody wants here in Hawaii). I'm about to purchase a reflector to hopefully improve the look of my photos. I'm getting a Lastolite Tri-grip reflector. My question is which colors will work best with the type of photography I'm doing? The sunfire/silver or white/silver? Money is tight so I have to buy one reflector that will adapt to black-n-white and color. Thanks. Instead of a reflector, I'd suggest a scrim, a translucent fabric that will put the subject is a soft diffused light that is only one stop or so off from the full sun, so you have a shade like space that is brighter than shade. This means that when you expose for the subject the background doesn't wash out, just gets a step lighter, so you can print without a lot of burning etc, you can use machine prints at a lab without loosing your background or having the subject go dark. A lot of photogs use a "california" scrim (which is actually made in Germany) and has to thick handles for an assistant to hang on to, or to clamp to a heavy duty light stand with counter weights and all. I like a Larson 3x6 reflectosol, this is the large square/rectangle reflector maker that opens from the center like an umbrella. The main advantage is that with the center shaft (that bends on a pivot near the head) an assistant, even an impromptu assistant like the model's boyfriend, or one of the grooms'men, can easily hold it near horizontal over the couple or even a small family huddled together and can control it in a slight breeze. also, you can make scrims and reflectors, there are simple plans availabe to make them out of pvc pipe and sports nylon, and you can even buy the silver reflector cloth they make reflectos out of, or you can get some mylar 'bubble wrap' insulation material that is decent for reflector use, (sometimes you can find sheets of styrofoam insulation panelling to use, 4x8 foot, two inches thick, you can jam a stick into it to prop it up, 12 bucks here stateside (probably 50 bucks on the island) in the files section of the z-prophoto mailing list at yahoogroups.com you can find an authorized scan of Dean Collins' Tinker Tube book (long out of print) where he shows how to build a whole studio's worth of lighting gear out of pvc pipe. I think that using a reflector in the sun is the wrong way to use it, it becomes like a spot light, a very harsh light. you might as well use a flash for fill, (or use a slaved key light on a stand and a high shutter speed so the background drops down a tone, get a deep blue sky that way) besides a reflector in the sun bouncing in the eyes is blinding, literally. What a reflector is best at is when you don't think you really need it at all, remember with film, what you see isn't exactly what you get, so when you have the model in a nice open shade, a real 'sweet' light, that penumbra at the edge of the shade, just before the full sun, take a step back, just before full flat shade, there is that sweet spot where the skin glows, the eyes sparkle, the subject is a stop brighter than the full shade, there is a slight directionality, she looks perfect. this is where a reflector can come in on the shadow side and give that side a kiss of light so when the film adds a bit of contrast, it all comes together perfectly. |
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relfector type ?
"zeitgeist" wrote in message . net... head) an assistant, even an impromptu assistant like the model's boyfriend, why in the hell would you let the chick's boyfriend watch the shoot?????? -- ******************* "Who died and made you Renfield?" W.W.S.D? www.Motochrist.net www.AliceCooper.com www.AliceCooperEBay.com **Send complaints to: ** |
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head) an assistant, even an impromptu assistant like the model's boyfriend, why in the hell would you let the chick's boyfriend watch the shoot?????? I don't shoot the kind of pictures where you need to have the set closed, keep boyfriends and dads away. why the hell not have the chick's boyfriend there? unless the images are for a different audience than the boyfriend/dad/husband... |
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relfector type ?
Why wouldn't you? As long as he understands that when you are shooting, he
has to stay out of the way, off to the side. "M77" wrote in message ... "zeitgeist" wrote in message . net... head) an assistant, even an impromptu assistant like the model's boyfriend, why in the hell would you let the chick's boyfriend watch the shoot?????? -- ******************* "Who died and made you Renfield?" W.W.S.D? www.Motochrist.net www.AliceCooper.com www.AliceCooperEBay.com **Send complaints to: ** |
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