John, Nice job, I'd say you nailed it. Kenneth Waller
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Power" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PESO - News Studio > I posted this on another forum some time back, but thought that it might be > of interest to PDML'rs as it shows what the *istD can do with available > light. Sorry for the large file. > > I was asked to take photos of a local news anchor, Jineane Ford, for a small > specialty newspaper. Jineane is on Channel 12, here in Phoenix. She was > Fiesta Bowl Queen in 1978 and Miss Arizona, and Miss USA in 1980. > > The studio was surprisingly dim. The TV cameras of today don't need much > light, and I guess the newscasters thus don't have to squint. I was really > surprised at how dim the studio was. I asked a guy in the studio about the K > temperature of the lights and he said they were set at 3200. > > It was so dark that I would not have been confident with a custom white > balance, so I set the white balance to tungsten, the ISO to 800, and shot > away, at about 1/60 sec at f/4 to 4/5.6 with the Pentax 16-45mm lens. > > But of course the lighting in the studio was perfectly balanced and the > colors were great. The chips in the broadcast cameras have the same problem > our digitals do, limited latitude, so they don't want much contrast in the > studio. > > Jineane was very gracious, very down to earth. The newspaper wanted > "broadcast" type images. The photos turned out very good (shot about 20 > different angles and poses) and this is the one that was chosen for the > cover of the small newspaper which came out last week. > > http://www.solutns.com/jpeg/jford.jpg > > As always, comments welcome. > -- > John Power > Racehorse in the desert > > 'Life is too short to miss out on photography.' > >
