Nigel Allan
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I took this of my (soon to be) wife Elisabet in 1984 on Ektachrome with my Pentax LX and just scanned it with a Nikon Coolscan from the original tranny. No retouching or PP, full frame and not cropped.
The lighting was provided by a single bulb Leitz Pradovit slide projector which is all I had at the time (actually I don't have any lighting now either since I never work in a studio setting) and shot in our hallway of our small London flat
I am no lighting expert but I feel you can improvise with what you have to make captivating, iconic images. This was part of a set which I still love to this day
Nigel Allan: Portrait of Elisabet - 1984
P.S. It is occurring to me going back over my old pictures and starting to scan them and bring them back to life with my new toy (Nikon Coolscan 5000) that I was a better photographer 25 years ago than I am now. I feel like I am relearning how to ride a bike as Mike Shimwell suggested in another thread
The lighting was provided by a single bulb Leitz Pradovit slide projector which is all I had at the time (actually I don't have any lighting now either since I never work in a studio setting) and shot in our hallway of our small London flat
I am no lighting expert but I feel you can improvise with what you have to make captivating, iconic images. This was part of a set which I still love to this day
Nigel Allan: Portrait of Elisabet - 1984
P.S. It is occurring to me going back over my old pictures and starting to scan them and bring them back to life with my new toy (Nikon Coolscan 5000) that I was a better photographer 25 years ago than I am now. I feel like I am relearning how to ride a bike as Mike Shimwell suggested in another thread
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