But that vortex, and its compromises, are why the finger is soft. I'm using hotshoe flashes as my main light source (for various reasons including portability). But they aren't very powerful, especially used at 1/4 power which is what I normally use so the recycle times are fast enough to keep up with me and the subject.
As this is a headshot I'm zoomed in with a tele to fill the frame and even at F8 the DoF is slim. I wanted the focus to extend from her eyes to her fingers and F8 wasn't quite enough. I compromised and focused on her eyebrows. I was able to sharpen her eyes enough in post (Nik sharpener has focus recovery that works well), but I left her finger. So I could have stopped down one or two stops to F11 or F16. And I might even have done that except I'd either have to spend about 5 minutes adjusting the flashes up two stops each -- one is inside a softbox that has to be velcroed open and the other was outside on the patio eight feet up on a stand -- or bump the ISO up to 800 which would make the shot unacceptably noisy. If I'd been using AC strobes I could have adjusted them from their power pack or from a wireless remote on top of the camera. *That* would be heaven. Some day. :-) On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Gerrit Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > A bit better than ok! After getting a bit of background on these tonight I > have to say it is still Northern Spy for me. The only minor distraction is > the slightly out of focus finger. > > Trying not to get sucked into the lighting/setup vortex....... > > Gerrit > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker > Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 3:37 PM > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List > Subject: GESO - Tempting alternates > > First, two shots in particular: > > http://flic.kr/p/f4MZEV - Northern Spy > http://flic.kr/p/f5cDZU - Apple Saucy > > A large number of possible candidates for the Temptation PUG emerged from my > shoot with Iryna, and here are the best of those. I rejected some because > they just didn't say _temptation_ to me, but are otherwise okay shots. > > http://flic.kr/s/aHsjGFgCHr - The gallery. I'll be adding to this as I get > some more time. > > All shot with K20D, DA* 50-135mm/2.8, 200 ISO, 2 x AFG540FGZ. Lr, Ps. > > Comments welcome. > > -- > -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.
