Thanks Bob. But my math sucks. It was 35 years ago -- 1976. Hardly seems possible. Paul On Mar 17, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
> Paul, > Wow, that brings back some memories. > Yes your scanner is soft, but the photo is a great promo piece. > I love the flames visible on the far side of the hood. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Twenty-five years ago, I had an idea. I had been shooting cars for Super >> Stock Magazine for a year or two. The Chi-Town Hustler crew had just built a >> new funny car, and I was going to shoot it for the mag. While I would shoot >> plenty of pics in a safe and nicely lit parking lot, I wanted to try to get >> one pic with the Chicago skyline in the background. And I wanted the engine >> running and flames coming out of the editors. Well, I talked the guys into >> dragging the car down to the peninsula on which the Chicago Planetarium is >> built, and unloaded it on the sidewalk. Unfortunately, I had forgotten about >> the streetlights, and had no idea what color temp they were. (Turns out they >> were close to fluorescent green, only greener.) I brought my two strobes and >> plenty of wiring. I had a fairly powerful Honeywell potato masher, and I set >> that up to light the side of the car. I used a small Rollei flash and >> mounted it closer to illuminate the front of the car. I shot Ektachrome 120 >> in a Mamiyaflex C2, and bracketed from f11 at 1/30th, all the way to f4 at >> 1/15th. (Didn't own a flash meter at the time.) Well, I pretty much >> overestimated the power of those flashes outside at night, and the only good >> exposures were at f4. But the green cast from the street lights was awful at >> the longer exposures, and shorter exposures were underexposed. So my best >> shots were almost decent exposures but lacking DOF and way too green. In >> those days, they couldn't be fixed. >> >> This morning I had a go at fixing one of them in PhotoShop. Unfortunately, >> my scanner sucks (a flatbed Epson 3200), so the shot that was probably soft >> to begin with is softer yet. But I did fix the color and exposure. It's now >> almost what I had in mind a quarter century ago. The Chi-Town guys will get >> a kick out of it. >> >> BTW, Pat Minick, who is sitting in the car in the pic, offered to shoot out >> the street lights with his sidearm that night. I declined, figuring I needed >> the light, even if it was green. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12827153&size=lg >> >> Paul >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
