This was actually quite a challenge, The basic set-up was fairly straight forward, however getting a decent amount of light into the camera was another thing. I’ve used my 85mm F1.8 here on F1.8 at ISO 200. the strobes left and right were on full power with overhead providing quarter power fill light. As it was dark / evening in my flat there wasn’t very much ambient light at all, meaning that I had to open up the aperture fully. This then presented the issue of capturing a decent depth of field. I must have taken about 50 shots, most of them with either Viveca super sharp, or Jasper super sharp, very few with both spot on. It’s a learning curve and I know what I need to do next time. On the plus side it was a pleasure to take some pics of my lovely girlfriend and not shoot selfies, meaning that I could direct her a little and not have to go back and forth to check the image after each shot.

Interestingly I was also under strict command not to ‘grunge it up’, therefore the processing is much smoother and softer. I’m really happy with the results.

I imagine that his is warehouse is no longer there and has been destroyed for redevelopment, so Im glad I got to see it when I did. This is both the beauty and curse of art in public, or not so public locations, you gotta be quick to catch the good stuff before it either gets destroyed or painted over.

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There is very little to see here apart from what I’ve shown in these two images. The skylights do make it rather atmospheric though and the light can be lovely.

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]]> http://markblundellphoto.com/sheffield-phlegm/feed/ 1 http://markblundellphoto.com/phlegm-the-hotel/ http://markblundellphoto.com/phlegm-the-hotel/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:35:05 +0000 Mark_Blundell http://markblundellphoto.com/?p=3873 Some more work by Phlegm

We were lucky enough to see this on a lovely clear day and although the blue sky is rather boring photographically it does provide excellent light quality and lit up the art on the side of this building very nicely.

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The artists here are Rocket01 and Phlegm, both locals and both very talented with their own very distinct style. Their work can be found both hidden away and out in public around town.

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This panorama is made up of 12 sets of images. Each set of images is created with 12 bracketed images. Due to the size of the files its hard to do too much processing as my PC tends to grind to a halt and make my work take twice as long as it should. With the three or four layers that I was using the image was around 1.5Gb.

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