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December 5th, 2007
I’m back from New York. I spent all day yesterday driving. It was snowing part of the way in the Pennsylvania mountains which resulted in a few white knuckle moments, but no serious problems. And I was back to Ohio just in time to use my new snow blower to clear the 4 inches of snow that came down last night from the walks and driveway.
After doing the snow duties this morning I sat down to start working on my photos from the workshop. A little experimentation showed me that PhotoShop CS can indeed open the raw files from Lois’ Leaf back. So, the problem I thought I was going to have of how to access the files was really non-existent. I’ve been looking through them and I think there are several that I’ll be sharing here.
Today you have the first of them. This dancer is Mayte Natalio. The photo is from the first day at the Lois Greenfield workshop…my first time using the Hasselblad with the Leaf Valeo 22 back. Mayte is obviously a tremendously talented dancer and she was a pleasure to work with.
It was nice shooting with a Hassy again…it had been a while. I think I had a bit of an advantage over some of the younger photographers attending the workshop because I was already familiar with the camera. And I’m old enough to remember what it was like when we had to advance film and cock the shutter back in the old analog days. The Hasselblad Lois uses is one of the wonderful older models designed for film…and the shutter has to be wound manually after each shot. That also returns the mirror to the viewing position.
Of course the files from that 22 mp back are wonderful. And the Broncolor strobes that Lois uses on reduced power produce a flash of very short duration which guarantees even the fastest movement by a dancer will be frozen and sharp.
More photos from the workshop will be coming in the next few posts…
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