Yeah, when I'm so used to unforgiving focus at f/2 it's a real luxury to use f/11 where almost everything is in focus. :)
Thank you very much, Frank! On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:45 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow! She looks terrific! A very dynamic, fun shot. > > What amazes me is that even though she was moving you absolutely nailed those > gorgeous eyes. Yet the hair around her neck is nicely oof. Well done! > > Love the way her eyes caught the light. > > All in all a wonderful portrait. > > Cheers, > frank > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> > Sent: January 13, 2012 1/13/12 > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List <[email protected]> > 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.
