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Portraiture by Candle Light
Portraiture by Candle Light
alien2thisworld


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Challenge: Light (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi
Location: Home studio
Date: Jan 30, 2005
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1 sec
Galleries: Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jan 30, 2005

 Used 9 candles (group of six as a "main" light, and 3 as my "fill" light) to create this portrait. It was a lot tougher to work with candles than with my normal lights, but I do like the warm tones and soft shadows on the face.

I'm relatively new to portraits, so hopefully I'll get some constructive criticism and suggestions :)

Crop, resize, and tiny bit of USM.

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Nikon D50
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 01/31/2005 09:23:04 AM
Warm and Nice!
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Olympus PEN E-PL2
Olympus 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 M.Zuiko Digital
01/31/2005 04:48:02 AM
other than the title, it would be impossible to tell your method of lighting - indeed, the light feels oddly cold for something coming from a natural flame. though it doesn't bother me, i fear you might get a bit of a bashing for your model not showing his eyes (apparently it's rule #1 in portraiture). it's nicely composed, but it doesn't really get much emotion / feeling out of me. 6.
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