Thank you Dan, Darren, Ken, Marco, Brian and Steve! And thanks also to everyone else who had a look.
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Whoa! Very nicely done there, Bruce. > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> 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. >> >> -- >> -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.
