Is it a little like a cross screen? That gives a diffused effect + a glow
to the photo. I've noticed that effect from TV cameras shooting at football
stadiums and racetracks under the lights.
Gregg
From: "Dave Bulger
> Zuiks,
>
> There is a chain of portrait studios here in Austin called Clicks that is
> very popular with the teenage crowd, offering cheap, quick portraits in
the
> mall. They've got an effect that I can't figure out for the life of me,
and
> it's driving me crazy. Their shots are definitely shot with a diffusion
> filter of some sort, but the prints have a luminosity in the skin tones
that
> is difficult to describe. I haven't asked the list about it because I
> didn't think I could describe it accurately enough to reverse engineer.
>
> I was watching the Lost in Space movie with my teenager this afternoon and
> saw the effect again. It appears when the young teenager (Penny?) is
making
> diary entries on her little wrist camcorder -- THAT'S the effect.
Diffused,
> but something else. Possibly a ring light?
>
> Checking out the setup in the Clicks' studio, they're just using a digital
> camera with standard umbrella lighting and monolights, with an additional
> flash on the camera hot shoe, printing the portraits out while the
customer
> waits (dye sub?).
>
> Any help would be appreciated and help me back towards that fine line
> between sanity and wherever I am...
>
> TIA!
>
> Dave
>
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