My friend Aeriol asked me to show up at her gig last night and get some photos of her with her new hairdo.
As the bartender said when she saw me "More pictures of the same people doing the same thing at the same place!". The difference being that last night, just to see how it would work, I brought a studio strobe. WTF, I've never photographed musicians in a bar, with a full on studio strobe before, I wanted to see how it would work if I could throw stupid big numbers of photons at them. The short answer is that I was eventually able to get some decent photos, but it was tough. Especially only using one strobe. Fortunately it was a quiet night, so I didn't have to worry too much about pissing off too many patrons. Some of my best luck was from cheating a second light source by aiming the strobe at the mirror stage left, but letting a bunch of light spill out the side to get some fill from "straight on". I expect that in the future I should try multiple speedlights on light stands. I also found that just using the modeling light as a hot light worked pretty well. This is also the first set of photos that I've tried processing using LR4. I'm not entirely happy with the processing. "Auto tone" sucks when you really do want a black background. But, for your amusement: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157629493693342/ -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
