Another thumbs up for "Botticelli's Barmaid!" -Marco
On Jun 12, 2013, at 6:09 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > "Botticelli's Barmaid" and "Virgil Likes" are real winners! > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Whoa! Very nicely done there, Bruce. >> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So I landed a paying gig last weekend. I was to document the opening >>> of a new club: show off the facilities, catch the opening night band, >>> dancing, drinking, and try to snap some of the staff too. Here's a >>> small set of 12 of the more interesting shots (of the 74 finals >>> delivered to The Brawley brass): >>> >>> http://flic.kr/s/aHsjG1qjie The Brawley Opening >>> >>> All taken with my K20D, DA* 55, DA* 16-50 & DA* 50-135. >>> >>> The first three staff shots (wait, bar, kitchen) were lit with a used >>> $30 AF200T in an 18" softbox on a monopod, gelled 1/2 CTO, and wielded >>> by my able assistant (my wife). I precomputed the flash exposure >>> assuming a fixed rough distance to the subjects, then set the shutter >>> to let in ambient room light about two stops below the key. When WB >>> adjusted for the orange gel, the background goes a blue tint to give >>> it that cool look. >>> >>> The west wing and patio shots are HDR, as you've likely guessed -- >>> apologies in advance. I used Nik HDR Pro and it's pretty good, but I'm >>> not really an HDR kinda guy. I just figured these facilities shots >>> would benefit from that Marketing Imperative where Over The Top just >>> isn't good enough. :-) >>> >>> Most of the dark club dancing and band shots were taken at ISO 3200. >>> In the past I dismissed that as useless on the K20D but they clean up >>> nicely with Nik Dfine, so I'm coming to rely on it now. (It even >>> removes colour banding well so I'm going to go back and revisit some >>> of my "lost" K100Ds shots.) >>> >>> >>> Comments welcome, as always. >>> >>> -- >>> -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.
