Thanks so much, Derby. I really dislike the usual staff shots of them all standing in an awkward group with forced smiles in front of the beer posters and was determined to do better.
The two wait staff, Julia and Thomas, had just arrived for their first ever shift there on Sunday morning. Before they'd even served a customer I had them posing for me. And they proved to be naturals at it and we had a lot of fun. Megan behind the bar was a tougher case. She was ticked that the night staff had messed up her careful arrangement of glassware in the fridges, and the draught supply lines for the most popular beer were screwed up so it wasn't pouring right. I got about three chances to capture her before we lost her attention; the first two were underexposed but #3 was good enough, although soft. My pinup pics are there for two months then we'll rotate in another artist. On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Derby Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a terrific set. The lighting looks natural. Staff look attractively > natural too. > > And you have your pics in the wall. Is it a permanent exhibit? Kudos > > > > On 13/06/2013 10:18 AM, Bruce Walker 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. -- -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.
