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For Sale: Portable studio gear, backdrops not included.
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KiwiChris


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Challenge: Light (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Paddock at home.
Date: Jan 29, 2005
Aperture: F/10
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1 second
Galleries: Sky, Portraiture
Date Uploaded: Jan 29, 2005

 I waited and waited for a decent sunset, and we normally get a few every week.. Saturday night I thought I'd better shoot something.

This is one of those 'good idea, lousy photo' shots. I had this great plan of an amazing burning sky, with streaks of light etc. Oh well.

Anyway, shot in the paddock next door to the house, just after sun down. You can't see them, but there are sheep standing behind me, they were wandering over to see what the heck I was up to I think.

Shot in Av mode, and the flashes were metered manually. (Sekonic flash meter) The left flash is a 580ex fired off the camera PC socket, and the right one is a Nikon SB-24 fired with a slave cell. Probably should have had the fill light a stop higher, but it's now dark outside, and we're going out tomorrow night, so this will have to do.

On the down side this shot cost me a brolly, when I was setting up for the shot a gust of wind blew one of the tripods over before I hung my bag on it, and broke a silver/black brolly, so I switched to two whites... Such is life.

Post processing was simple curves, USM, crop, scale. I also edited a huge dust spot, which I think was a bug on the sensor, as it wasn't there in other shots :-).

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Nikon D300
Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D IF
 09/03/2006 02:48:47 PM
Cool! where did you get that great backdrop....
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Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 02/12/2005 08:19:31 AM
Now this is seriously underrated. Great comedy and execution.
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Pentax K10D
Pentax SMC P-DA 12-24mm F4.0 ED/AL (IF)
 02/11/2005 05:33:12 AM
well done!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Nikon D70
 02/04/2005 08:04:07 PM
oh... this makes me laugh!! Are you serious that you are selling those?! It's a very humerous photo! either if you are really selling them or not!
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 02/04/2005 01:19:55 PM
hmm if I give you a ten do I get a discount?...Nice shot meets the challenge just not real exiting.
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Olympus PEN-F
Olympus 17mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko
02/04/2005 04:25:01 AM
That's pretty clever. Nicely lit, too. I nearly dismissed it as a witty stunt, but it's really a very appealing and original portrait. 7
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 02/03/2005 09:33:51 AM
Funny title, beautiful shot, great advertisement. :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR
 02/01/2005 01:38:01 AM
what a pro!..a 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D2X
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D
 01/31/2005 05:07:36 PM
nice simple setup!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-10D
Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon
 01/31/2005 12:09:49 PM
How much
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 01/31/2005 09:34:03 AM
Interesting the way you didn't crop it. It has a sort of "behind the scenes" feel to it.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 01/31/2005 09:15:51 AM
hmmm pretty cool........
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D50
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 01/31/2005 08:58:46 AM
Excellent!
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