I'm impressed that you were able to sort through the activity maze and come up with this well done informal portrait. I took some "shine" off the Gov's face, removed the wall corner on the left edge and desaturated the red a tiny bit. Now looks to me a little more relaxed. I love the shot, Christine. Congrats!
Jack --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Christine Aguila <[email protected]> > Subject: peso illinois governor > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 10:25 PM > Hi Everyone: > > I shot a political event/fundraiser tonight as a friendly > favor; I didn't really have a good night of it--I've got a > cold & don't feel my best, but that wasn't the biggest > frustration--it's all those in-the-way balloons and > decorations, bad lighting, boring microphone shots, trying > to isolate folks for some good pics, ugly, ugly walls and > backgrounds--etc, etc. Anyway, this pic of our > governor, Pat Quinn, is what it is, but if anyone has any > advice for shooting events, I'd be grateful. > > http://tiny.cc/Ejb7A > > > http://www.caguila.com/caguila/quinn/content/fundraiser_85_large.html > > The primary is next Tuesday. After I took this > picture, the governor said, "well, young lady, you got > me." I was grateful he referred to me as young. > > Comments welcome > Cheers, Christine > > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
