On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Bob. > But my math sucks. It was 35 years ago -- 1976. Hardly seems possible. > Paul
Great adjustment and a nice story. Good picture to. Dave > 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
