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  • Give it Your Best Shot • Re: Back in the theater October 20, 2020
    Very enjoyable second set Sig, as always.SuryStatistics: Posted by sury — Tue Oct 20, 2020 5:35 pm
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  • Give it Your Best Shot • Re: Back in the theater October 20, 2020
    .Hi, Sig ! Very good sets that also will identify itself as 'a certain era's' photos in years to come. Masks certainly made signature presences in all of our activities with good reason.I love the pastel colour palette of the costumes against the dark background. What's the name of the performance they are dancing to, […]
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  • Give it Your Best Shot • Re: Back in the theater October 20, 2020
    Yes, breathing through masks makes the dancing a little harder. For those of us who have experience dancing in roles that require wearing things like Mouse King and Nutcracker heads, it's business as usual. But now it seems the other dancers have acquired some empathy for us, having to deal with the breathing restrictions first […]
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  • Give it Your Best Shot • Re: Back in the theater October 19, 2020
    Sig,I agree with Valery. They are interesting shots with the masks on the subjects.Once I get past the mask, I see beautifully captured poses. SuryStatistics: Posted by sury — Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:40 am
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  • Give it Your Best Shot • Re: Back in the theater October 19, 2020
    Yeah ... Masked dancers! This is certainly something extraordinary. How do they manage to breathe like that, and even dance? When will it all end with the virus ... The pictures are certainly interesting.Statistics: Posted by ValeryD — Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:41 am
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Frank’s a definite Alpha Male

By David Kilpatrick, on May 28th, 2013

We shall be sending Frank Doorhof one of our original and rare Alpha Male T-shirts, in black, though I’m not sure we have anything quite large enough to fit him – which goes for his personality too. He’s a great workshop presenter, overcoming technical problems by just cracking on with whatever will work best. At . . . → Read More: Frank’s a definite Alpha Male

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Alpha in the cathouse….

By David Kilpatrick, on January 17th, 2011

It was a photo-call too good to be missed. Shirley Kilpatrick reported for duty at Europe’s biggest brothel where fashion photographer Steve Thornton was staging a publicity stunt for California Sunbounce. Welcome to the House of the Rising Sunbounce, also known as Pascha.

The first person we saw in the empty corridors of the photokina . . . → Read More: Alpha in the cathouse….

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Tilt-shift with full frame DSLRs

By David Kilpatrick, on January 9th, 2009

After just a short while working with full frame, high resolution DSLRs the need for tilt lenses has really come home to me. Most lenses deliver their best results at fairly wide apertures like f8, it’s easy for detail to begin to look soft and lacking impact if you are forced to stop down to . . . → Read More: Tilt-shift with full frame DSLRs

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Alpha Live View in the studio – solved!

By David Kilpatrick, on July 21st, 2008

One of the problems with the Alpha 350/300 is that the Live View is linked to the settings when you use Manual exposure. It provides a form of metering, a relatively accurate preview of under or over exposure. This makes it impossible to use Manual with studio flash (AC mains strobe) setups. Currently, there is . . . → Read More: Alpha Live View in the studio – solved!

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Studio light-table technique

By David Kilpatrick, on June 15th, 2007

YOU MAY want to learn exactly how I shoot the product photographs which appear in my own articles here at Photoclubalpha. I use a studio light table with an opal plexiglass transilluminated scoop. This is the method I have used now for over 25 years and it’s saved me a lot of time, and earned . . . → Read More: Studio light-table technique

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