Thank you, Gerrit. Re East Wing, you've sharp eyes! :-) Yes, eight of my Postmodern Pinups and an acrylic of Louise' are on display in the club for the next 8 weeks. Phil wanted Louise and I to be the first in the door on soft-opening day and when we arrived L noted the blank walls. Phil has agreed to let her curate the space and she'll be rotating artists through there. But I was able to get something up that very afternoon and they seem to love them, so everyone's happy.
Blues gigs will be happening, don't worry. So far it's been different groups each Friday and Sunday, an oldies dance Saturday, and I expect some of our fave blues bands to rotate in. Sometimes there's a $5 cover now, but that's not a bad thing. It's Little Peter and The Consuls this Sunday which we'll try to make as we know the bassist. High ISO is the name of the game there, so your K-5 will rock it. You won't need any FL longer than 135mm as you can easily get near the stage. Even a fast 50mm will get great results. On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Gerrit Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > Good captures of the mood. Jive shows activity without making you focus on > details. > East Wing has some familiar looking snaps on the wall? Should it be labelled > Wall of Fame? :-) > > Aretha-esque really captures the live music feel. > > I hope there will be Sunday blues gigs again! High ISO shots would work > great for those. > > Gerrit > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8:18 PM > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List > 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.
