Thanks Steven and Frank.
On Apr 22, 2012, at 7:00 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: > Some very nice shots there. > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:32 AM, knarftheria...@gmail.com > <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Experiment worked; excellent photos! >> >> cheers, >> frank >> >> "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- >> Christopher Hitchens >> >> --- Original Message --- >> >> From: Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> >> Sent: April 20, 2012 4/20/12 >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >> Subject: An interesting experiment >> >> My friend Aeriol asked me to show up at her gig last night and get some >> photos of her with her new hairdo. >> >> As the bartender said when she saw me "More pictures of the same people >> doing the same thing at the same place!". >> >> The difference being that last night, just to see how it would work, I >> brought a studio strobe. WTF, I've never photographed musicians in a bar, >> with a full on studio strobe before, I wanted to see how it would work if I >> could throw stupid big numbers of photons at them. The short answer is >> that I was eventually able to get some decent photos, but it was tough. >> Especially only using one strobe. Fortunately it was a quiet night, so I >> didn't have to worry too much about pissing off too many patrons. Some of >> my best luck was from cheating a second light source by aiming the strobe >> at the mirror stage left, but letting a bunch of light spill out the side to >> get some fill from "straight on". >> >> I expect that in the future I should try multiple speedlights on light >> stands. >> >> I also found that just using the modeling light as a hot light worked pretty >> well. >> >> This is also the first set of photos that I've tried processing using LR4. >> I'm not entirely happy with the processing. "Auto tone" sucks when you >> really do want a black background. >> >> But, for your amusement: >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157629493693342/ >> >> -- >> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
