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Response to A Man And His Hat

from tom meyer (twm@mindsring.com)
Hi Steve. Here's some good natured ribbing, 'cause I actually like this photo, but... I don't think you really used a bucket of clamp lights. It looks like you used one. Which was a good idea. Any extra light *on the subject* would have made this a goofy (and bad) image with aspirations beyond it's simple reason for being. A carefully placed clamp light on the background would have been perfectly way out of focus ( since you used f4) and supplied two supporting elements: 1) a little seperation of this guys head from the blackness, and 2) a little "garage" clutter to contextualize his hat. A good job with the genuine expression fitting the prop and directional light, good lighting of the face but the black background better suits a more serious demeanor. Welcome to the forum... t
(posted 8584 days ago)

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