Thanks, Derby. FYI, the underexposure and the scene itself combined to provide the vignette. I just had to bring up the shadows and mids a bit and tame some highlights on her face to balance the composition. It's as close to SooC as I've posted here lately. Usually Mr. Photoshop Till I Drop. :-)
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Derby Chang <der...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > Beautiful. The light vignette and the touch of noise really works for me. > > > > On 24/10/2012 12:08 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> Vocalist Yuko Miyamoto at jazz saxist Bobby Hsu's gig at The Gate 403 >> in Toronto on Oct 19. >> >> http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/8117649662/lightbox/ >> >> This was a dimly lit club set where I was struggling to get any >> non-soft shots at all. At one point I accidentally bumped the mode >> dial from Av to Tv and it set a high shutter speed of 1/160th, then >> underexposed at f:1.4. Astoundingly these few shots -- until I found >> the dial set "wrong" and set it back -- were among the sharpest of the >> evening. It looks a lot like handholding at low shutter speeds >> contributes to much softness that I'd thought was bad focus. I'm going >> to explore this fast shutter in the dark in future. >> >> K20D, DA* 55/1.4, 1/160th, ISO 1600. Lr 4.2. >> > > > -- > 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.