Thank you, Frank!
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:28 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's a great shot, Bruce! It's obvious that Marzi is getting more and more > into this. > > Cheers, > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> > Sent: July 28, 2012 7/28/12 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: GESO The Trap Door > > The mask is my fave shot by far. I had to keep reminding myself to go > wide and get more clothing and jewelry in the frame -- my natural > impulse is to go for tightly framed headshots. Must be a holdover from > my flower macro period. :-) > > Thank you, Mark! > > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: >> Excellent collection - that first one with the ornate mask is quite >> stunning. >> >> Mark >> >> >> On 7/27/2012 1:07 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >>> >>> For a fast look: "She is deciding my fate" ... >>> >>> http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/7656572092/lightbox/ >>> >>> >>> This gallery is of shots I did while helping my wife Louise on a >>> documentary project she's creating about a local store called the Trap >>> Door Boutique. The owner, Gabrielle Neveu, sells clothing and fashion >>> "for the artistic professional" in the Junction area of Toronto's west >>> end. >>> >>> This was a guerrilla shoot. We were operating within the boutique >>> during their open hours, working around customers who were mostly >>> bemused by our activity. (I think some came in because they were nosey >>> and saw the lights.) We were in and out in two and a half hours. >>> >>> I was providing lighting for Louise to do video footage of our model, >>> Marzi, getting crazy with the clothing that Gabbi was styling for us. >>> I was sneaking in and shooting stills as best I could. Since this was >>> for video I couldn't use flash, so I opted for a $30 garage >>> work-light, 2 by 250 watt tungsten halogen bulbs on a short stand, >>> that we had bought previously to try. To make this light less harsh >>> and have it come from above rather than casting upward shadows, I >>> added two light stands: one with a 44" silver reflector and the other >>> with a reflective umbrella. I then aimed the two 250 watt heads from >>> the work-light at each of the two reflectors. >>> >>> When I measured the light with my meter I discovered that 500 >>> reflected watts doesn't actually go far. I was forced to shoot between >>> f:2.8 and f:3.5 at 800 ISO and shutter speeds between 1/30th and >>> 1/60th sec for the entire set. But the resulting light was unique and >>> interesting. It was nice to work with WYSIWYG light: easy to see where >>> shadows would fall and great for focussing. >>> >>> Tricky to work with the work lights though as they threw light >>> everywhere, so accidental direct light leaks and flare were hard to >>> avoid. I even had trouble with flare in the viewfinder! I just >>> accepted the harsh shadows in some cases as creative accidents. ;-) >>> >>> Then there's the heat: oh my gawd. Sweat was pouring off me. I also >>> was forced to shoot in close proximity to the light heads because we >>> were in a very confined space between the clothing racks, changing >>> booths and the cash desk. >>> >>> But despite all the restrictions, my keeper rate was astonishingly >>> high. Louise chose 248 out of 302 shots to graft into her doc footage. >>> I rejected many of those as too soft for me, and narrowed the keepers >>> down, but it's still a large number. The seven in this gallery are >>> just the extra-good ones that I've retouched first. >>> >>> >>> So here's the gallery. The first seven shots are from this recent >>> shoot (this past Wednesday), and the rest are from an art opening in >>> the same boutique last fall. >>> >>> http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/sets/72157630775756384/show/ >>> >>> K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 SDM, 800 ISO, f:2.8-3.5. >>> Lr 4.1, Ps 5.5 >>> >>> Comments welcome! >>> >>> -- >>> -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. > > > > -- > -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. > -- > 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. -- -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.
