Lots of memories are triggered by that shot. Nice save. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:12 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
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