True, Ann. Gardening makes Louise happy. I should repeat the shot on a rainy overcast day.
The Apollo softbox actually looks just like the little Iams cat-tent that our orange tabby likes to sleep in, if you lay it down on its front. It would look a bit like the old lunar lander if you added some legs to it. Thanks for looking! On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks like the dish works but ... Louise looks far too happy for > dust bowl. > > Is the Apollo 18 in the shape of a space ship? > > ann > > > On 5/21/2012 23:13, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Definitely a fun shot and very well executed. >> >> Cheers, >> frank >> >> "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- >> Christopher Hitchens >> >> --- Original Message --- >> >> From: Bruce Walker<[email protected]> >> Sent: May 21, 2012 5/21/12 >> To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List<[email protected]> >> Subject: PESO Dust Bowl Louise >> >> This is a shot of my wife, Louise. She's not completely in character >> for this because she was roped-in, post-gardening and reluctantly, to >> help test out my flying beauty dish idea prior to using it in an >> upcoming creative shoot. >> >> The flying beauty dish is a Frankensteinian object: an Apollo 18" >> softbox, with an AF160 ring-flash tie-wrapped into it, attached to a >> monopod. My young assistant held this above and in front of Louise as >> the key light, I added an AF540 in a 42" umbrella for some fill and a >> snooted AF540 well behind as a hair light -- which of course became a >> hat-light in this case. >> >> What I saw in this shot reminded me of a Dorothea Lange, so I >> processed it sepia and mucked around inexpertly in Photoshop to >> distress it for that faux-thentic dust-bowl vintage look. >> >> http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/7223449048/lightbox/ >> >> Enjoy! Or not! > > > -- > 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.
