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Aneirin -> RE: Nude and Fetish Photography (3/21/2008 10:10:37 AM)
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Wow, I am impressed, a photography thread on CM, and with so much good information too. I do agree with most here, the 'on board' flash is awful, I tend not to use it if I can help it as I dislike flash photography, but that maybe due to myself as a mostly land scape photographer.
I have in the past used flash though, but for a strange kind of photography, that of pot hole photography and the techniques learned there might be of interest, but am not sure how it would work on digital, perhaps some experimentation is needed. Anyway, the technique was as follows: The camera hotshoe was fitted with a flash on a cable, so away from the lens.This flash was covered with a red geletine filter. Dotted about my subject were electronic flash units fitted with slave units, even out of visual sight, as light bounces. The flash units were set up as per their guide number. When I was happy I clicked the shutter, thus firing the flash, a red flash which instantaneously triggered the white light flashes via the slave units, and there revealing a photograph as if it were in daylight.
Am thinking source old flashes from the film era and try the slave unit approach to simulate studio flash, but on a smaller scale, use the flash guide number to work out the distance from subject with the cheaper single outlet units.
Like I said, not sure how it will work, the red gelatine method, but a remote flash from the hotshoe could be used as a trigger for carefully placed remote slave flashes. I get the feeling it will not work with my DSLR as mine is an infra red camera, and does pick up heat as well, a curious thing to see a photographic representation of heat above a flame.
I also am a SLR user and own a Nikon D70 equipped with a Sigma 18-50 and a Tamron 55-200, both these lenses are good, though I do agree about using prime lenses from the past and myself, I do seek them.
My aim is to do the kind of photography I have always seemed to miss out on, that of fantasy portraiture and nude, a subject where knowledge of lighting is of high importance and there the necessity to learn that which I lack, artificial lighting, something which should be easier as artificial lighting is one, one can control.
The style of photography I tend to pursue is what I call etheral photography, a sort of situation with lots of diffusion and grain and if I use colour, then it tends to be vivid as if under a bright after storm sun, to produce a dream like quality. But really, what direction a photograph may take is purely dependant on the mood at the time and what I see by previsualisation. A camera to me, just a tool to make art.
Good luck to the OP, may you find photography richly rewarding, but beware, it can be addictive.
edited to add, filters, the 'cokin' system is versatile and affordable, especially from places like ebay
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