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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 01, 2020, 04:20:32 pm

Title: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 01, 2020, 04:20:32 pm
Brought my Canon R to a concert this time, not iPhone  :)

Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Rob C on February 01, 2020, 05:04:35 pm
Nice one!

Rob
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: RSL on February 01, 2020, 07:44:14 pm
+1
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 01, 2020, 07:48:26 pm
+2.
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on February 03, 2020, 06:12:01 am
Excellent.
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 03, 2020, 02:33:20 pm
Hard to better, even in a studio. Well done!

Jeremy
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Rob C on February 05, 2020, 10:16:52 am
Hard to better, even in a studio. Well done!

Jeremy


If you do a lot of studio work, you realise how much better off you are on location. On both sides of the camera.

Rob
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: MattBurt on February 05, 2020, 10:57:21 am

If you do a lot of studio work, you realise how much better off you are on location. On both sides of the camera.

Rob

Or even just a little studio work! I much prefer on location unless of course the location is awful. :)
Nice light and a good capture!
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Peter McLennan on February 06, 2020, 10:18:46 am
Who did the lighting?
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 06, 2020, 11:02:10 am
Who did the lighting?

Just the stage lights at the bar. The effect comes from using a spot metering. Here is another angle, where a different light (magenta) is partially hitting the violin. Different colored lights were stationary, but both musicians and I were moving, so plenty of different outcomes. The OP shot was done at ISO 250, the second one at ISO 25,600!

Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 06, 2020, 02:10:22 pm
Also good, but not a patch on the first.

Jeremy
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Rob C on February 06, 2020, 02:12:51 pm
One way or the other, Slobodan, you are becoming far more than an "architectural street art" shooter! The trick is to keep all the talents alight.

Bravo!

Rob
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 06, 2020, 04:44:41 pm
This isn't Rembrandt lighting, but it is the same concert. I find this portrait of the lead singer and guitarist quite nice. ISO 20,000:
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 06, 2020, 04:56:26 pm
Good stuff, Slobodan.
But I don't think Rembrandt ever used Magenta spots!
 ;)
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: petermfiore on February 06, 2020, 05:02:51 pm
This isn't Rembrandt lighting, but it is the same concert. I find this portrait of the lead singer and guitarist quite nice. ISO 20,000:

In actuality neither was your first image, a great shot...but this is classic Rembrandt Lighting, the triangle on the cheek as the turns into the shadow.

Peter
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Martin Kristiansen on February 07, 2020, 12:37:50 am
In actuality neither was your first image, a great shot...but this is classic Rembrandt Lighting, the triangle on the cheek as the turns into the shadow.

Peter

True that. But whatever you call the lighting I like that first image.
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: petermfiore on February 07, 2020, 05:48:39 am
True that. But whatever you call the lighting I like that first image.

Martin,

In the first image the color is beautiful, I agree and I said that it is a great shot...But it's not whatever you call it. If that were the case, we could call it tent lighting. Or rim lighting. They wouldn't work. In painting and photography Rembrandt is a specific type of light, that's all I saying.

Peter




Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 07, 2020, 06:26:39 am
Martin,

In the first image the color is beautiful, I agree and I said that it is a great shot...But it's not whatever you call it... In painting and photography Rembrandt is a specific type of light...

Peter, thanks for the compliments.

You are correct that in studio photography, Rembrand is a specific type of light. But Rembrandt existed before photography, so I had in mind a broader meaning of the term, more like chiaroscuro, that is characteristic of his paintings. For example, one of his many selfies:



Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: petermfiore on February 07, 2020, 06:38:53 am
Peter, thanks for the compliments.

You are correct that in studio photography, Rembrandt is a specific type of light. But Rembrandt existed before photography, so I had in mind a broader meaning of the term, more like chiaroscuro, that is characteristic of his paintings. For example, one of his many selfies:

You are right. I should have talked a bit about this point you make. Chiaroscuro (light and shadow) is attributed to Rembrandt but It's Caravaggio and some work by Titian show this use of light. Both Caravaggio and Titian predate Rembrandt.

Peter
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Martin Kristiansen on February 07, 2020, 08:16:19 am
Martin,

In the first image the color is beautiful, I agree and I said that it is a great shot...But it's not whatever you call it. If that were the case, we could call it tent lighting. Or rim lighting. They wouldn't work. In painting and photography Rembrandt is a specific type of light, that's all I saying.

Peter

I quite agree with you. I agree with the point you made about Rembrandt lighting as well but expressed myself poorly.
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Ivo_B on February 07, 2020, 10:10:18 am
In actuality neither was your first image, a great shot...but this is classic Rembrandt Lighting, the triangle on the cheek as the turns into the shadow.

Peter

I didn’t want to spoil the fun, but I had the same comment, I kept it behind the fence of my teeth... :-)
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 07, 2020, 10:23:45 am
... behind the fence of my teeth... :-)

So, when you sit on that fence, what happens?

Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Ivo_B on February 07, 2020, 01:42:31 pm
So, when you sit on that fence, what happens?

:-)
It looks like an iphone shot Rembrandt scene. :-)
Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: Rob C on February 07, 2020, 03:49:06 pm
Here's the only known camera portrait of the cat:

Title: Re: Rembrandt Lighting
Post by: petermfiore on February 07, 2020, 04:07:39 pm
Rob,

 :D

Peter