Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/17

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Subject: [Leica] will technology save you from poor planning?
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:52:45 -0500
References: <013A021D-666A-4786-8F5B-B828776B44DC@gmail.com>

  That's an excellent photo.  Are you sure they're musicians?  They seem 
so....normal.

Ken

On 10/17/2010 11:57 AM, kyle cassidy on the lug wrote:
> So last week I got a call from a promoter asking if I could race down 
> town&  do a promo shot for two bands who were crossing paths and have a 
> collaborative EP coming out, they had a five minute slot at 7 pm. I packed 
> my gear ran down to the venue, scoped out a location in a field nearby set 
> up my lights and discovered that I'd forgotten the cable that connects the 
> flash to the pocket wizard (loaned to a wedding photographer two weeks 
> ago&  foolishly not put back in the bag). With five minutes before the 
> band was to arrive I had to put my faith in technology and shoot by 
> moonlight as well as convince everybody that had been my plan the whole 
> time.
>
> I cranked the asa to 128,000 and by putting the camera on a light stand 
> was able to hold it steady enough to get a shot at 1/20th sec at f 5.6.
>
> Back in the bat cave I made two layers and ran severe noise reduction on 
> one and merged the two until I found a happy medium between grain and 
> detail. Desaturated because of an overly blue sky and garishly green 
> grass. After my minor heart attack, everyone walked away happy.
>
>
>
>     http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/moonlight.jpg
>
>
>
> thinking now of TAPING a spare PW cable to the PW itself in a sort of "in 
> case of emergency" sort of manner....
>
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