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19-FEB-2008 Charles Gervais

"The Library" by Charles Gervais

University Women's Club, London

This is a stack of about 15 images. The room was lit overall with a single 2400J strobe bounced into a corner, and then I handheld a 200J monobloc strobe (heavy!) with snoot and grid (to get nice, small, controlled patch of light) and pointed it, one exposure at a time, at various elements in the shot. I got myself in the mirror several times, but that was ok, as I stacked all the resulting images in photoshop and, using layer masks, only kept the bits I wanted. It's resulted in an impossible image (it would've probably taken up to 15 lights to do this in one shot, and reflections in the mirror still would've been a problem).

Too bad I took this a day before the challenge began, otherwise I could've put it in the Competition gallery (not that it's a patch on some of the shots there and in this gallery, but it's one of the only "stacked" images I've taken recently :-)

Nikon D2x ,Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM
0.80s f/8.0 at 13.0mm iso100, over and over full exif

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Guest 20-Mar-2008 11:32
Umm, I photoshopped out the stacks of Dandy, Beano and "Purple Singlet Monthly".
Thanks Flick (long time no interact, how does it go?)
Charles
kodak_challenge20-Mar-2008 07:32
no because no copies of Dandy and Beano to be seen.
Good one charles.
Flick.
Guest 19-Mar-2008 20:28
Are you sure this isn't Quentins reading room in a quiet corner of his mansion?