Meet Marzenia, aka Marzi, an out of work graphic designer and my wife's new gardening assistant. For the last few months she has completely rejected the notion of sitting for a portrait despite a number of queries. I thought she had a unique, interesting look and told her so, but she insisted that she always looked terrible in photos and she hated getting her picture taken.
But I kept after her. Finally, after we explained that I just needed somebody to help me practice some lighting ideas and I promised that all she'd need to do was "sit there", she agreed to a shoot last Thursday. And here's the standout shot from that session: http://goo.gl/hrPwz K20D, DA* 55/1.4, f/11, 125th, ISO 200. AF160 macro ring flash, AF540 in an umbrella camera-right. Post-processing was Lightroom 3.6 for some basic tweaks, and Photoshop CS5 for some minor retouching. I ran Portraiture on almost the lowest settings for skin cleanup. The ring flash did a remarkable job of hiding complexion problems. Used like this it's a tremendous glamour light, as I was hoping it would be. I also got the chance to use my poor-man's tethering setup: a disused PowerBook running an Automator script I cooked up displayed the shots real-time as they came off the Eye-Fi card in the K20D. It was terrific seeing the actual lighting changes as I reconfigured the setup. So now, amazingly, Marzi is enquiring when the next shoot will be and hoping it's soon. :) Comments are gratefully received. -- -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.
