Irving Penn is simply fantastic! Please tell me anything you may know about the techniques he used to make his black and white images. In particular, how did h e do his lighting (was it natural)? What films, developers, and papers does he u se. Thanks.
Broad-source soft lighting, either from large natural skylights (sometimes using a specially designed tent on location) or large strobe softboxes in the permanent studio. Massive exposure, full development, enlargements on normal papers resulting in high contrast prints. Quite a lot of his fine-art work is printed in platinum from enlarged negative
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks