Bruce, that's really a great shot! Lots of personality shines through, and I really like the lighting.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 9:32 PM Subject: PESO Marzi Meet Marzenia, aka Marzi, an out of work graphic designer and my wife's new gardening assistant. For the last few months she has completely rejected the notion of sitting for a portrait despite a number of queries. I thought she had a unique, interesting look and told her so, but she insisted that she always looked terrible in photos and she hated getting her picture taken. But I kept after her. Finally, after we explained that I just needed somebody to help me practice some lighting ideas and I promised that all she'd need to do was "sit there", she agreed to a shoot last Thursday. And here's the standout shot from that session: http://goo.gl/hrPwz K20D, DA* 55/1.4, f/11, 125th, ISO 200. AF160 macro ring flash, AF540 in an umbrella camera-right. Post-processing was Lightroom 3.6 for some basic tweaks, and Photoshop CS5 for some minor retouching. I ran Portraiture on almost the lowest settings for skin cleanup. The ring flash did a remarkable job of hiding complexion problems. Used like this it's a tremendous glamour light, as I was hoping it would be. I also got the chance to use my poor-man's tethering setup: a disused PowerBook running an Automator script I cooked up displayed the shots real-time as they came off the Eye-Fi card in the K20D. It was terrific seeing the actual lighting changes as I reconfigured the setup. So now, amazingly, Marzi is enquiring when the next shoot will be and hoping it's soon. :) Comments are gratefully received. -- -bmw -- 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.
