Quoting Darren Addy <[email protected]>:
"Botticelli's Barmaid" and "Virgil Likes" are real winners!
Agreed. 'Wait Staff' doesn't suck, either!
Excellent overall.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Daniel J. Matyola
<[email protected]> wrote:
Whoa! Very nicely done there, Bruce.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:18 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.
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