You are welcome to borrow mine anytime! Gerrit
-----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 9:05 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: GESO The Brawley Thanks, Christine. And you can be sure that if I had a K-5 I'd have used it. :-) On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > Very nice set, Bruce. Just curious though--why use the K20D and not > your K-5? Cheers, Christine > > > On Jun 12, 2013, at 7:18 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> 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 >> PDML@pdml.net >> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
