Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------3A0A220D34BA92CF90A55BBC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Having just returned from Oregon doing interiors on four 30-some foot boats, and having borrowed a 28PC and 35PC lens (Nikkor) from a friend, I can tell you I am addicted. Except I want a 20mm and 15mm PC (any idea how small boat cabins can be?). As for boat interiors: nowhere to put light stands (the floor not big enough); mostly used bounce light where ever I could get the heads to sit, rats' nest of cords; had to paper the windows for later computer drop in of outdoor scene (but tried to light through the window so frame is "alive"; a great stylist is as important as the photographer (I had a great one who went with); I mostly felt like a pretzel; I also felt like a biscuit being baked (it was in the 90s and inside a boat inside a metal building); Tsing-Tao beer nearly frozen and served in a frosted glass is appropriate reward for such suffering; it would have taken at least as long as lighting a scene as to figure out how to get a tripod to stand in any place I wanted to shoot from, especially with several angles to do (and made me want a Benbo tripod); a PC lens is difficult to frame stopped down with the dim finder and vignyetting (so it is necessary when handholding to find reference points to line things up when you can't see the whole frame); taking two sync cords in no guarantee you'll have at least one working by the end of the job; aspirin and Tylenol are vital photo chemicals. donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego www.donalphilby.com - --------------3A0A220D34BA92CF90A55BBC Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="donalphilby.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Donal Philby Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="donalphilby.vcf" begin:vcard n:Philby;Donal x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.donalphilby.com adr:;;;;San Diego;; version:2.1 email;internet:donalphilby@earthlink.net fn:Donal Philby end:vcard - --------------3A0A220D34BA92CF90A55BBC--