Thanks, Frank. They _say_ they love the shots, but The Brawley's owners have been running off their feet since the beginning of May getting the club ready and then opening (Phil, the owner/manager, practically lives there), so I don't think they've had a chance to really appreciate them yet. But I got my cheque, so there can't be any show-stoppers. :-)
As Gerrit mentioned, The Brawley is a few streets east of Kipling on The Queensway, north side. Have you been around long enough to recall a club called OV's? It's that building. OV's was there for 15 years but gradually turned into a place so dark and seedy that bikers would avoid it. Then it was renovated with new management and became a family friendly place called Hollywood, ran into financial trouble after a few years and now it's renewed as The Brawley. </thumbnail-sketch> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:48 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a wonderful set, Bruce! Your patrons must be very pleased with them. > > Where's The Brawley anyway? > > cheers, > frank > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> > Sent: June 12, 2013 6/12/13 > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: GESO The Brawley > > 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. > -- > 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.
