Not your monitor, Jack, Tessa needed some fill light to see her better. Or I could have tried HDR. :-)
She's 98% black, and was turned away from the window where all the light was coming from. But Dr. Fenger is a light complexioned Nordic type, and was turned toward the light. I had the exposure right in the middle, so the histogram filled wall-to-wall and I couldn't have gone up or I would have overexposed the vet. Poor old Tessa lost out. I used the Lightroom adjustment brush to lighten her eyes until a catchlight was just visible, then stopped because the noise floor came up too. Thanks, Jack. On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > My monitor may be in need of calibration, but I can't really make out Tessa's > eyes. Only the slightest suggestion of catch light. > Like the pose, however. > > Jack > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 9:17 AM > Subject: PESO Dog and pretty woman in found light > > Lest I become known as that tiresome guy who only posts pix of pretty > women, here's a dog too. :-) > > http://goo.gl/2HkSk > > This is our vet, Dr. Gitte Fenger DVM, left, and Tessa, our German > Short Haired Pointer, right. Dr. Fenger is having an open house at her > clinic in April to help promote her practice, and my wife is helping > out with some promo to the local papers and such. So enter Mr. > Photographer, me. > > As soon as Dr. Fenger spotted me with the big black SLR and the 50-135 > with its hood on, she went into deer-caught-in-the-headlamps mode. > Took me a lot of shots until she became relaxed again. But she adores > animals so as she interacted with the dog she became herself. Useful > trick that's worked before. :-) > > I took this in the afternoon in her main consultation room, with its > large north-west facing windows. All found light, no flash. I did > notice that the matrix metering was fooled by something so I went > manual and incident-metered the light. > > Seems the more I shoot, the less I rely on automation. Is this some > sort of creeping curmudgeonalization setting in? > > K20D, DA* 50-135/2.8 @ f/4, 125th, ISO 400. > > I wish Tessa's nose was less soft, but I'd have had to stop down and > either add the flash or up the ISO, and I was running out of time. Oh > well, what ya gonna do? > > Comments welcome but unlikely due to the content. ;-) > > -- > -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. -- -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.
