[pure-silver] Re: Aha! Scan This....
- From: Ross Chambers <maelduin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:21:37 +1100
Dear Uncle Dick,
Are you sure that you haven't been picking up tricks from the 2 Oz
scientists who won an Ignobel this year for deducing a formula calculating
how many exposures would be required for a group shot, using the number of
participants as the known factor, to avoid blinks, movement, and other
problems?
See http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/ps2cw.html
Regards from the east coast - Ross
on 4/2/07 11:07, Stein at rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Dear Friends,
Actually, the tag line should have read Aha, Scan This Ya Bastids but I
didn't know if there were any weak hearts amongst the readership so I
decided to let you in easy. I normally nver descend into vulgarity (
Preferring to let it rise to my level....) but in this case I am feeling
pretty chuffed with myself.
The reason is simple. Pure Silver rules again. Uncle Dick has done what
no man has done before - he has managed to capture all of his social cub in
an annual group portrait with every face evenly illuminated and no motion
blurs. The frame is filled and no-one is making indian feathers with teir
fingers above anyone else's head. It is a triumph of the art. The art of
herding cats.
I can thoroughly reccommend an Amphoto book on group portraiture - once
past the family and wedding groups it has real practical advice on lighting
and camera position. I used the technique of a camera on a tall tripod
looking down on the rows of subjects with a very small tilt of the front
standard ( Try THAT on your Canon 10D, Deadly Rival! Hah!) and all the faces
are good. As the portrait is in full shade we boosted it with two monobloc
flashes. I meant two light stands, a tripod and a ladder plus extension
cords and plugpads and I used the old trick of "We Count to Three" and then
shot on two.
The real success was the film choice . 4 x 5 HP5 developed in Rodinal
1:25. Then printed on a big slab of Ilford MG at grade 1 3/4. I chose the
standard print size of 9 1/4 inches by 16 inches and I made sure that all
four corners of the print are different. The man down at Custom Framing
sends me a valentine each year.
Uncle Dick
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Ross Chambers
Blue Mountains
New South Wales
Australia
maelduin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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