On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> For those fans of b&w nudes. >> >> http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/I0000iKw5Atrq1YM >> >> 645z, 90mm/2.8, f/11, 1/125th sec, 400 ISO; handheld. >> Window light only. >> >> Model is Kristen Au. > > > Gold in silver?
Kristen is a major nerd and she loves and appreciates all the great pun possibilities around her name and profession. She's also a professional musician (plays sax in a Motown/jazz/funk/R&B band). http://www.kristenau.com/ >> Comments appreciated. > > I'm somewhat stymied as to wear Ms. Willrich might have applied makeup in > that photo, but that might explain some of the differences between your > nudes and mine. Yeah, credits can get tricky sometimes. :) > Banter aside, I'm quite torn on this one. I think that background looks > really cool, and I love the way the reflections off it cause the light to > wrap around the model. > > On the other hand, the background is so cool and eye catching that it > distracts from the model. Particularly when the tonality of it ends up > being so close to the model's skin in this photo. I am curious how it would > look in color. > > If there had been space to do so, it would be interesting to see how it > would have worked shot at a wider aperture, with the model further from the > background so that all those distracting sharp lines weren't quite so sharp. Believe me, that background is a lot less sharp than it would have been with a K-3 or K-1. The DoF with the 645z at f/11 is still really shallow. I hear you, but my intent was to make a study of form, line and texture, so I'm not trying to separate figure and background. Thanks for looking and commenting, Larry! -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
