 Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 6:48 pm Post subject: Lighting To Improve Facial Characteristics |
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alaios wrote:
Dear all,
I am starting this to allow a discussion on my most common problem I have to face when shooting.
Most subjects complain about a specific facial characteristic and I am always try to think what to change to "hide" problems.
In my last scenario I was given only 5 minutes to take few portraits shots for a corporate type of shooting. My subject knew that I am very new into this but he explained me that anyhow his colleagues for corporate shots have in best case a point and shoot camera type of shoot.
I said ok, since I am always in for any practice.
These are the four bests I was able to give him after this short shooting period.
#1
#2
#3
#4
(I think my best is the #2).
After I returned the shots I got two comments
1. "Oh Shit one eye is larger than the other." I think that the problem is on the eye lid... I have spent some time trying to think how I can improve that with light.. but I have got no good alternative. I know that I can put the larger eye away from the camera but then I always run with the troubles with the overall posing... changing the posture to keep the masculine pose
2. He also commented about his nose. He has this bump since he was a boy but he thinks that shows overly large. If I had more time I would like to try either to light up more the nose or use some shadows.. Although both changes would alter completely the nature and the idea I had for the lighting (broad light for a corporate shot).
How do you react at such cases? How easily you change your lighting gear and what you leave for post processing?
Regards
Alex
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“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don’t know what to do with it”
(written at 1927 by Edward Weston)
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“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don’t know what to do with it”
(written at 1927 by Edward Weston) |
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