Comments on: recreating a vintage Hollywood portrait

By: links for 2009-01-19 | Steve G. Bisig Photography

links for 2009-01-19 | Steve G. Bisig Photography — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:25:06 +0000

[...] Recreating a vintage Hollywood portrait Details on how a vintage style photoshoot was put together - from concept to the shoot. (tags: photography portrait) [...]

By: Wurli

Wurli — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:12:53 +0000

Nice work!
Concerning RAW-files and black&white: RAW simply is RAW, that´s the information the sensor delivers to the camera electronic. Since the sensor always picks up the whole image information including color - what else than color photos should one expect to get from RAW image files? Switching the camera to b&w is only meant for JPGs, but here you loose all the possibilities by converting & processing - playing with contrast, converting R G and B to different tone values etc. - would be like taking a photo with polaroid material.

Walther/Graz/Austria

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:28:29 +0000

Hi!

I find your website/ blog via google search and now several ours later I’m still here. This vintage tema is gonna be one of my ideas in near future shoot. Love the lightning and hollywood old look on your photos and are going to try to achieve that. I’ll keep update to your site ‘n many films.

A very good site with tons of valueble stuff!!
//Chris

By: Clay

Clay — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:30:02 +0000

Love the historic testing, Jim. Sounds like fun and something going to put on my testing project list.

As an aside, I must say I’m sorry to see Prophotolife go by the wayside but certainly understand the time conflict with studio work. I look forward to the photo a day blog, though.

Happy New Year!

By: Will

Will — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:49:21 +0000

Fantastic experience Jim! You encourage me to try this project. I will be sending you the results in january.

By: Mike Noble

Mike Noble — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:22:44 +0000

Jim,

I use the same Calumet light set. I am also planning on the purchase of the 15″ soft light reflector. What I cannot seem to find is a grid spot to fit the 6″ reflectors that came with the Travelight heads. I tried a third party company but what they sent did not fit. What grid spots are you using and where can I get them? Nice article btw. Love the ’40s look.

Thanks,

Mike

By: Jim Talkington

Jim Talkington — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:39:08 +0000

B., the Canon RAW files apparently contain some information that can only be read by their proprietary software. When viewed in other programs (Bridge, Capture One, etc.) we’re still getting a great RAW file…but not all of the digital information from the camera settings (black and white, etc.).

By: Matthew Botos

Matthew Botos — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:02:17 +0000

Nice bit of history, Jim! Your research into lighting and angles really paid off; these look more authentic than most vintage-style portraits.

By: B.Lopez

B.Lopez — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:59:31 +0000

Jim, you mention that you set your camera to shoot in RAW and set it for black & white, yet the preview on the computer showed up in color. I’ve also had a similar experience - when I take outdoor photos and set my camera to shoot in RAW and black & white, after transferring the images to my storage unit, when I view my black and white images in bridge they change to color. Is there a reason for this? Is this do to camera raw pre-settings that automatically convert the image back to color? Can I switch back to black and white? Can you help?

Thanks.

By: Adrien

Adrien — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:44:39 +0000

Yes, the Karsh show runs until January 19th.

http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/sub.asp?key=15&subkey=5726

Adrien