Christine - I have been traveling and only quickly dipping into PDML this last week. I did notice that one of the newer members gave you thanks for your opinion on something, with words to the effect of "it is nice to have the opinion of a professional photographer . . ." And now if you blush and try to deny it, all we need to do is refer you to this body of work. Very nice! You took advantage of opportunities for repeating frames-within-frames in several shots without letting the artsy stuff interfere with clean documentary shots like the client wanted . . . I think the whole project has been very impressive.
Veering off on a wine-inspired philosophical tangent, I must say that my mind boggles a bit with the diversity of work being done by members of this group. There you are in your construction boots and hardhat tromping around a construction site while Tanya is chasing rugrats around darkened rooms with no flash. We are offered quality examples of nudes, snowflakes, flowers, industrial sites, bear, deer, even cats! Subways and streetcars and urban streets and Oxford punters and Himalayan mountain passes. Dance moves and exhaust manifolds. Barns and baseball and doors and diners. And dogs. And even the occasional wedding and horse show. Thanks Christine for sharing and thanks to all for continuing to stimulate and inspire. stan On Jul 14, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Well, yesterday marked the 1 year anniversary of the start of the > construction on the parking garage and student services building at work. The > construction workers are on strike right now, but they'll get that sorted > soon, and work will resume. > > The photos are what they are, but I had so much fun shooting yesterday. It > was dead quiet on the site. I had giggly conversation with Desmond, my > escort, while shooting, and it was the day of the tripod. Every picture was > make on a tripod--except the stairway photo. The walk around the sight was > leisurely, as was the speed of my shutter, shooting a lot of 1/3 - 1/6th of a > second at ISO 400 with f-stops mostly in the f 4 - f 7.1 range, and I > bracketed virtually every shot, though I still had some tweaking to do in the > shadow areas--a bump up here and there, and some recovery of blown > highlights. Because I used a tripod, my frames were A LOT more level than my > usual frames resembling a stroke victim with pronounced sagging to the right. > I only shot the interior, so I was out of the sun, and a cool breeze > followed us around like a good friend. My construction boots were still a > must, but I was allowed to abandon my hard hat and safety vest, so I could > enjoy the breeze even more. > > It was just one of those shoots when it felt good to be both alive and a > photographer. > > http://www.caguila.com/caguila/trconstructionjuly132010/ > > Comments welcome. > > Cheers, Christine > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
