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Photographers often think in terms of photographing objects such as terrain, or people, experienced photographers know that they are merely recording the light reflected off those objects. Without good light, even the most compelling subject won’t make for an interesting Image.
 
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Well, yes. :)

No light: no photo.
Crappy light: crappy photo.
Good/interesting/considered light: you're in with a chance!

In this particular forum, however, I'm pretty certain that your point will not be news. It was also known to painters centuries ago. You are preaching to the converted here. :)
 
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Hello and welcome to the forum. I see you are from California so I am guessing you get much better outdoor light levels than us (UK) most of the year, which must make some aspects of photography more convenient :) I see from your profile that you shoot product photography. Do you specialise in any particular product area?
 
Redondo Beach/ Los Angeles Photographer Dino Mosley has been shooting Fashion, Editorial, Beauty, Portrait, Headshot and models profile since 2005.
 
Dino Mosley Photography said:
Photographers often think in terms of photographing objects such as terrain, or people, experienced photographers know that they are merely recording the light reflected off those objects. Without good light, even the most compelling subject won’t make for an interesting Image.
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That's where all the users here have been going wrong here .......................................... I think not

Certainly rates as one of the worst opening postings here

Mike
 
Nionyn said:
Writing about oneself in the third person is a bit like personalised number plates.
It makes it rather difficult to take the person seriously.
At least, that's what Nionyn thinks. ;)
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Possibly, it's a pet hate of mine too, but if that's what people like to do...
mike weeks said:
That's where all the users here have been going wrong here .......................................... I think not

Certainly rates as one of the worst opening postings here

Mike
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Can't we be more welcoming to new members?
 
Ask a question And i responded on the wrong page. Please forgive me and no, it's not spam. The gentleman wanted to know what type photography I do. And that was my response. Again I apologize if I offended anyone
 
Here was the question he asked me.

Hello and welcome to the forum. I see you are from California so I am guessing you get much better outdoor light levels than us (UK) most of the year, which must make some aspects of photography more convenient :) I see from your profile that you shoot product photography. Do you specialise in any particular product area?
 
Here was the question. I responded sorry if you was offended sir it's really not spam.

Hello and welcome to the forum. I see you are from California so I am guessing you get much better outdoor light levels than us (UK) most of the year, which must make some aspects of photography more convenient :) I see from your profile that you shoot product photography. Do you specialise in any particular product area?
 
We all seem to have got off at rather an odd start here. Never mind, I am sure things will improve. I hope you enjoy viewing and belonging to the forum.
 
"The friendliest forum on the net " just had a look at your portfolio Dino , some fantastic images and I look forward to seeing you post some here :)
 
stumac said:
"The friendliest forum on the net " just had a look at your portfolio Dino , some fantastic images and I look forward to seeing you post some here :)
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^^ Agree with this.

Welcome to the forum, it is a friendly place...honest!
 
Dino Mosley Photography said:
Again I apologize if I offended anyone
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Good grief, don't worry about that. I'm quite sure that you haven't offended anyone. :)

You did baffle people, though, firstly by posting a message that seemed quite pointless in a lighting forum where your point would have been old news to pretty much everyone.
And then you baffled us again by replying to a straightforward question in the third person. Doing this might be more usual in the US (I really don't know) but in the UK (where this site and the vast majority of its members are based) it comes across as a rather weird conceit.

This is a very friendly forum. Just be yourself and I'm sure all will be well.
Oh yes, and welcome! :)
 
I'm sure good light is obvious to quality photographers, but for those of us that struggle, is there a recommended text book?
 
I first learned about lighting was looking at videos on YouTube. Then I took a class with Sammy's camera in Los Angeles California. Then started taking classes with George Simmons at UCLA he was my professor advanced lighting in photography. He also work at Sammy's camera.
 
Dino Mosley Photography said:
I first learned about lighting was looking at videos on YouTube. Then I took a class with Sammy's camera in Los Angeles California. Then started taking classes with George Simmons at UCLA he was my professor advanced lighting in photography.
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We can look forward to you giving us lots of hints and tips then. Its always good to get new perspectives.

I often read some of the USA photo forums. I get the impression there is a much wider choice of equipment and brand names in the USA (which must be nice) than we can get here (due to our smaller market I guess). Also that photography is viewed in a slightly different way to the UK. We do not have much in the way of a tradition in senior portraits (school leavers), which I get the impression is a really big part of some photographers incomes and work in much of America? I find the cultural difference interesting. For some years I have personally thought US and Canadian wedding photography to be artistically more advanced than here, at least in the style of the photographs,, but that many of our photographers have caught up now after the initial lag. I guess our photographers excel though at rain and dark gloomy venues, especially in winter :)
 
Archie747 said:
I'm sure good light is obvious to quality photographers, but for those of us that struggle, is there a recommended text book?
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I'd say you're better just recognising that there's no such thing as "good light", or "bad light". Merely light that is better or worse suited as a means to your particular end.

Dino Mosley Photography said:
Without good light, even the most compelling subject won’t make for an interesting Image.
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Without a compelling subject, even the 'best' light won't make for an interesting image.
 
Nionyn said:
That would be terrible. A slippery slope too.
Next we'd have our irony stripped from us...
At that point it would all be over for us, and we might as well be American. :(


Don't worry, Dino, and absolutely nothing personal! That ^ was definitely a joke. ;)
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If irony goes I'm off to Russia to shack up with Putin!
 
UaeExile said:
Don't rob us of sarchasm Gary. First Brexit, then this.
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Americans are wonderful people except of course that they can't spell - but I am NOT American are you?:)
 
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Oops.
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It's funny, when I was the lighting forum mod on www.photo.net - a very good site but American:) I once had a phone call from one of the other admins, who called my Gary, which when correctly pronounced sounds like Mary, Garry of course when correctly pronounced sounds like marry.
Garry is a good Welsh name, Gary is American and apparently the English use of Gary originally comes from people named after Gary Cooper.
 
Subject is also important, no one likes a portrait of someone who is an ugly munter
 
Garry Edwards said:
It's funny, when I was the lighting forum mod on www.photo.net - a very good site but American:) I once had a phone call from one of the other admins, who called my Gary, which when correctly pronounced sounds like Mary, Garry of course when correctly pronounced sounds like marry.
Garry is a good Welsh name, Gary is American and apparently the English use of Gary originally comes from people named after Gary Cooper.
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Ah...the English and the Americans, two races separated by a common language. :)

Though of course you be Welsh, so an additional degree of separation.. ;)
 
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And the gentleman you misquote, George Bernard Shaw, was Irish:)
 
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