1964 Ford Ranchero - Pentax 67II - SMC Pentax 67 105mm F/2.4 - Pro 400H

1964 Ford Ranchero

Dear John's Parking Lot

11208 Culver Blvd.

Culver City, Los Angeles County, California 90230

 

This photo was shot just before midnight.

 

This photo is a blend of two different shots; one using the existing street light, and one using a Pentax AF400FTZ flash in TTL mode.   Both shots were made from the exact same position and focus using a tripod.   The scans came back so the two were perfectly aligned.   I was not crazy about the existing light shot and the one with flash was far to harsh and truly sucked.   However I decided to try combining the two to use the flash shot to fill in some of the shadow areas on the existing light shot.   Using Paint Shop Pro I made the flash shot a background layer with the existing light shot on top.   I then adjusted the top layer to be just slightly transparent so the flash layer would just show through in the shadow areas.   This is the result.

 

I know this is another car shot, but I live in Los Angeles and it is a target rich enviornment for cars.

 

camera: Pentax 67II medium format MLU SLR

lens: SMC Pentax 67 105mm F/2.4

film: Fujicolor Pro 400H

metering: TTL prism finder in matrix mode

exposure: multiple

flash: Pentax AF400FTZ

filter: SMC Pentax Skylight 1B

support: tripod

scan: NCPS

Done