Effectively done, Bruce! I give partial credit to the, obviously intended, unbalanced exposure and borderline DOF.
Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 6:09 AM Subject: Re: PESO Dust Bowl Louise 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. -- 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.
