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Vintage Lens
Another visit to our garden using a vintage lens (Canon FD 50mm f/1.4) on my Canon R5.
"Reaching" - 'Sambucus nigra', as my wife calls it, or Black Lace Elderberry for the rest of us.
Any interest in this group?
Hi all, I was looking for such a group but see that although there are many members there hasn’t been a single post. Is there interest out there in getting this group going?
Vintage Lenses
I thought I would try out my 50 year old lenses: Canon FD 50mm f/1.5 SSC and Canon FD 28mm f/2.8 on my Canon R5 with the use of the appropriate adapter.
Atacama desert, Chile
Views from Atacama desert, Piedras Rojas and Valle de la Luna
Outside the tourist area photos.
These photos were taken just outside of a small town in central Portugal.
2 Comments
You've got a second light low and camera right that is throwing conflicting shadows to your main light. That's giving you ugly shadows across the right side of her face.
Maybe you meant that light for fill or to broaden the effect of the main light.
To broaden the main light, you'd need to put both of the individual lights behind a common sheet of diffusion material.
If your intent was to fill in the shadows, an active (actual light) fill l should most safely be at the camera position. It can be right over the camera so that any shadows it throws fall out of sight behind the subject. If youi're using a passive fill (reflector), that can be to the opposite side of the main light so that it can catch light from the main light and throw it to the subject. By it's nature, a reflector won't be quite as bright as the main light.
For butterfly lighting (main light over the camera), it can be just below the camera.
Either way, it must not be so bright that it deforms the shadows cast by the main light.
Thanks Kirk for your critique...
and thanks for your advices, I can work with that.
To explain my lightsetup: I had an umbrella top right and the model holding a reflector to fill up the shadows from below.
And then I had a kickerlight from the left in the back.