Thanks, Frank! On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:39 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Very sultry and sexy! > > cheers, > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> > Sent: May 24, 2012 5/24/12 > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO a bit of Hollywood glam > > Was introduced to a lovely lady who wanted to do a creative shoot. I > suggested Hollywood glamour ala George Hurrell and she said yeah ... > > http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/7262010996/lightbox/ > > This is the first of a few I'll be retouching. The goal was B&W, but I > couldn't resist keeping this one colour. > > The shoot took place yesterday in The Gallery Studio Cafe in New > Toronto. There's a piano, which of course we made use of, and a nicely > decorated bar with a big ol' espresso machine, which also made it into > some shots. We basically had the run of the place. Dorothy enlisted > two of her ex-colleagues (she was an on-air personality with a talk > show on Rogers cable TV) for makeup and hair and they did a superb > job. I have BTS shots of the two of them working on Dorothy > simultaneously. > > I wanted to get the "focussed-light with rapid fall-off" look typical > of George Hurrell's work, so I used the ring-light-in-a-softbox that I > created especially for the shoot and tested on my wife last week. > George used multiple big hotlights with fresnel lenses to get his > look, so we clearly would only be able to approximate it but I think > we didn't do too badly. He also spent hours dodging and burning to get > his deep shadows and body contouring, so at least that part I'll be > able to emulate accurately! :-) > > K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 39mm/f:8.0, 100 ISO, 125th sec. > AF160 ringlight in 18" Westcott Apollo softbox on monopod, held above > and in front of subject's face. > AF540 in 42" silvered umbrella for fill, camera-left. > AF540 with snoot for hair, well back camera-right. > Cowboy Studios radio triggers. > Lr and Ps for post and retouching. > > Comments welcome! > > -- > -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.
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