Wow, Bruce! I'm surprised you haven't shot with a K-5 yet.
I have to say, I like the layout of the K20D a little better, and it
seems to have fewer "quirks" than the K-5 -- like the fact that the K-5
switches out of AF-S a little too easily for my taste and seems to like
to turn on its electronic level display on the LCD completely unprompted
from time to time. (I don't know /what/ I'm doing to cause that!)
But, you're going to love working with the dynamic range and low-light
performance. In fact, you'll love it so much, you'll decide to become a
strict available-light photographer and give all your lighting gear to
me. And I'll reluctantly, but graciously, accept it. Because that's just
the kind of guy I am.
-- Walt
On 6/26/2013 9:38 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
You trust me not to completely mess up your settings? Brave lad! :-)
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Gerrit Visser <[email protected]> wrote:
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-----
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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
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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.
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