Thanks Shel. It's the DA 16-45 @ 28mm focal length. The stop is f8, the
shutter is 1/30th. I had the Sigma 500 Super flash mounted with the
omnibounce reflector that splits the light between the reflector and
the ceiling 20/80. So the main light is overhead with fill coming from
the camera and some backlight from the doorwall window behind Grace.
The ratio of fill to overhead is close to minus one stop in practice
because the reflector is much closer here than the ceiling. It's shot
RAW, converted with only small increase in temperature, a slight
reduction in exposure and increase in brightness and contrast. I
sharpened it in the converter (due to sheer laziness) to 65 and
converted it to a 144 meg 16-bit tiff. I cropped it to remove extra
space in the left of frame and cloned out a toy that was on the floor
behind Grace. I saved a 45 meg 8-bit file for printing, then resized it
in PhotoShop (Binary Sharper) for the web. I added a bit of USM to the
web image (90%, 1 pixel, threshold 11). I'll probably clone out some of
the background if I make a print.
Paul
On Sep 5, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hi Paul ...
I like this shot quite a bit, even if you are attempting to teach your
granddaughter conservative ways.
Now, how did you manage to get the newsprint so sharp. What shutter
speed
did you use? What lens did you use? Aperture? Is it more a matter
of you
being very steady in holding the camera, or was it more the quality of
the
lens and the shooting parameters that contribute to the sharpness?
Shel
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From: Paul Stenquist
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