Seeing as I have been a dancer my whole life and traveled nationally tapping and assisting some greats of today I found the fact that Fred Astaire died a month after I was born interesting. I did this setup in my sorority room, it was fun explaining what I was doing. She still thinks I\'m insane.
Set-up was done with my 16x16x16 portable studio box. I set it upside down so that the white top was on the floor and the black was the backdrop. Used two tungsten lights that come with the kit, shining through the sides of the box.
I set my camera up on a mini tripod and held my remote in my hand. I have very little floor space in my room so it was hard getting enough room to do this.
Adjustments made in RAW Adobe Bridge. Some exposure, some contrast, and a custom curve.
In CS2 I converted to lab color and then selected the lightness channel, then converted to grayscale then converted back to RGB.
Neatimage was used to clean up some of the grain. I used unsharp mask: 40/60/0 settings. Resized for web and then sharpened using simple default \"Sharpen\" on CS2. Added a 15 pixel white border and a 25 pixel black border.
I really wish I could have done spot editing to the backdrop, but oh well ;/
I was going for theatrical lighting and it took quite a few tries and some hurt toes, but I\'m actually pretty happy with the results!
19 years ago in 1987 I was born :)
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