On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 4:03 PM Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 9/9/2020 5:30 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > > Broke my COVID-19 exile two weeks ago today for my first studio shoot > > since February, with this result ... (100% SFW) ... > > > > https://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/I0000eIqHiAEP9xQ > > > > Promptly gone back into the COVID-cave for the (un)foreseeable future. > > Too much anxiety all around, and besides: wearing a mask while > > shooting causes the viewfinder to fog up annoyingly often. Also fogs > > my reading glasses while trying to review shots on the tethering > > notebook. And I had to keep considering if I was too close to the > > model even though I chose a short tele for distancing. > > > > Working with the vintage 6x7 105mm 2.4 was a dream. Lovely lens. > > > > 645Z, SMC Takumar 67 105mm f:2.4 at f:2.4, 1/200th sec, ISO 1600; handheld. > > > > Lights were the strobe's modeling lamps, diffusers and a big silver > > reflector. Also ambient room light was lighting the background. > > > > Enjoy! > > > > That is almost quite charming. Her right shoulder and arm could have > been better placed though. The pose gives her a somewhat disassembled > and put back together incorrectly look. > I did check her MM portfolio as well as her personal portfolio to ensure > she wasn't built like Quasimodo. > She most definitely isn't.
Most definitely not; I can attest to that. :-) Yeah, it's tricky shooting down on a subject from a rickety apple box while manually focusing and keeping mask-induced fog out of the viewfinder. Definitely some foreshortening distortion resulted from that angle. Thanks for looking, Bill! -- -bmw -- 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.
