That is an excellent set of portraits. I'm sure she is very pleased. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
