Dawesy star Witness for the defense

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Dawesy star Witness for the defense

Postby Alpha_7 on Mon May 21, 2007 9:30 pm

Dawesy decided he'd help me set up the Paul's brollies and we'd have a quick sessions mucking around with dual SB-800s, unfortunately knucklehead here didn't bring D200 batteries, so I was shooting with the D70 that did the job well.

Anways shot 1, Dawesy was attempting to hide his identity.

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Little did he know that he couldn't hide from dual SB-800s BAM!

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And finally a more pensive moment.. he was too close to the brollie on the RHS so I've kept the image bright.

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Edit : Added another darker version for review.

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Postby Geoff on Tue May 22, 2007 2:31 am

Good stuff Craig!
I like the very obvious contrast from images one and two. The SHB as a background also gives a very corporate type feel to it.

I agree that in the last one, whilst it's a great B&W conversion -the right side of Dawsey's face is too bright.
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Postby Reschsmooth on Tue May 22, 2007 9:51 am

Craig, these are great efforts with the lighting. There is sufficient contrast to make the images 'pop' without being unflattering. As you and Geoff said, the last one is a little bright.

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Postby stubbsy on Tue May 22, 2007 1:19 pm

Craig

#2 is superb. the light, while artifical, has a natural feel to it.

The B & W needs to be half way between your two versions IMHO (ie dodge the left and burn the right or do a grad ND across the frame right to left)
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