jzucker - have you seen his sight? Nearly every photo on his site is loaded with textures and lighting embellishments. He uses more post than most photographers.
I will give an instance where his lighting, much like mine, is very calculated. I do photo shoots for the entertainment industry - primarily for key art, which consists mainly of film posters. Since this artwork is typically a composite image (using multiple images), I need to have consistent, but neutral lighting so that we are afforded all the options available to us in post production.
An example of this is to ensure that shadows and highlights are minimal so when we put multiple cast members into a composition, we can add consistent shadows to the cast that would appear to have come from the same directional light source. It also allows the ability to use the same photos in low key or high keys settings. Being a commercial photographer for over twenty years, I\'ve had the opportunity to use nearly all the softbox brands available - other than the cheapie brands, that is. And from my experience. I have seen very little distinction between brands. In this age of using a digital lightroom, it is fairly easy to create the effects required to play with light and shadows, and bring it to a place of aesthetic appreciation.
It\'s important to have proper exposure, but all this talk of feathering light is a tad overrated. All the images I\'ve delivered to clients have always been heavily processed. An artist is not someone who\'s interested in fidelity to nature. We don\'t capture the world as it is. We create the world in our photographs that we much prefer to see. That is what gives a photographer his/her distinctive voice.
May 04, 2013 at 01:10 PM
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