I'll bring it on Fri, will leave it with you for a week? I will use Pat's K100D in meantime or the WG2.
gerrit -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:48 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: GESO The Brawley Thanks, Gerrit. I'm actually quite interested to work with a K-5 for a bit to see just how it differs from the K20D. On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Gerrit Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > You are welcome to borrow mine anytime! > > Gerrit > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] 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 > <[email protected]> > 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 <[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. >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
