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Collage from three types of peonies from bud to flower

 

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2xSB-600s through 60" umbrellas at 1/2 and 1/8 power camera left and right, Gridded Vivitar 285HV camera right as rimlight. Fired using Flashpoint triggers.

 

MM#1032368

Amazing Stories / Magazin-Reihe

- Richard S. Shaver and Bob McKenna / The Return of Sathanas

- Chester S. Geier / Haunted Metropolis

- Frank G. Heiner / The Secret of Lord Fennel

- Dorothy de Courcy and John de Courcy /

The Man Who Went Nowhere

- Leroy Yerxa / Side Street

- J. S. Harrison / Atala Rim

- Berkeley Livingston / Command Performance

cover: Arnold Kohn

(cover illustrates "The Return of Sathanas")

Editor: Raymond A. Palmer

Ziff-Davis Publishing Company / USA 1946

Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010

ex libris MTP

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Stories

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharpe_Shaver

Amazing Stories / Magazin-Reihe

- William P. McGivern [Bill Peters] / Miracle in Manhattan

- Philip K. Dick / Breakfast at Twilight

- Robert K. White / Command Performance

- Gerry Greenstreet / The Squirrels

- Philip Weck / Pi in the Sky

- Sam Merwin, Jr. / Poison Planet

cover: Clarence Doore

Editor: Howard Browne

Ziff-Davis Publishing Company / USA 1954

Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010

ex libris MTP

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Stories

Single SB-600 camera right at 1/8 power through 60" umbrella, gridded Vivitar 285HV as rim/hairlight. Fired using Flashpoint triggers.

 

MM#1032368

Strobist info: 2xSB-600s at 1/2 and 1/4 power, 8' high and 45 deg. camera left and right fired through 42" umbrellas using flashpoint triggers.

2xSB-600s through 60" umbrellas at 1/2 and 1/8 power camera left and right, Gridded Vivitar 285HV camera right as rimlight. Fired using Flashpoint triggers.

 

MM#1032368

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera right. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

Single SB600 camera left at 1/2 power through 60" umbrella. Fired using Flashpoint triggers

 

MM#1032368

Fine tuning my retouching and finishing process in Photoshop CS4:

 

1. Spot healing brush to correct minor skin blemishes and wrinkles.

 

2. Added a gaussian blur layer mask painted in at between 25% and 40% opacity.

 

3. High pass/hard light filter at 75% opacity to finish.

 

Strobist - 2xSB600 at 1/2 and 1/4 power, 8' high and 45 deg. to camera left and right, fired through 42" umbrellas using cactus triggers.

2xSB-600s through 60" umbrellas at 1/2 and 1/8 power camera left and right, Gridded Vivitar 285HV camera right as rimlight. Fired using Flashpoint triggers.

 

MM#1032368

2xSB-600s through 60" umbrellas at 1/2 and 1/8 power camera left and right. Fired using Flashpoint triggers.

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

Revisited several images with a different post-processing technique

2xSB-600s through 60" umbrellas at 1/2 and 1/8 power camera left and right, Gridded Vivitar 285HV camera right as rimlight. Fired using Flashpoint triggers.

Bain News Service,, publisher.

 

Geo. Alexander as "Alfred Evelyn"

 

1911 June 1 (date created or published later by Bain)

 

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

 

Notes:

Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.

Photo shows English actor and theater manager, Sir George Alexander (1858-1918). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Subjects:

Theatrical

 

Format: Glass negatives.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09262

 

Call Number: LC-B2- 2204-7

  

Single SB600 camera left at 1/2 power into 60" umbrella. Fired using Flashpoint triggers

2xSB-600s through 60" umbrellas at 1/2 and 1/8 power camera left and right. Fired using Flashpoint triggers.

Bain News Service,, publisher.

 

Cyril Maude & Alexandra Carlisle in "Money"

 

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

 

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

 

Notes:

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Subjects:

Theatrical

 

Format: Glass negatives.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09261

 

Call Number: LC-B2- 2204-6

  

Bain News Service,, publisher.

 

Sir John Hare as "Sir John Vesey"

 

1911 June 1.

 

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

 

Notes:

Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Subjects:

Theatrical

 

Format: Glass negatives.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09265

 

Call Number: LC-B2- 2204-10

  

2xSB-600s through 60" umbrellas at 1/2 and 1/8 power camera left and right. Vivitar 285HV camera right at 1/16 power as rimlight. Fired using Flashpoint triggers.

Revisited several images with a different post-processing technique

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

Image documenting my evolving retouching technique.

Bain News Service,, publisher.

 

Chas. Hawtrey in "Money"

 

1911 June 1 (date created or published later by Bain)

 

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

 

Notes:

Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.

Photo shows Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey (1858-1923), an English actor, comedian and director. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Format: Glass negatives.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09263

 

Call Number: LC-B2- 2204-8

  

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

TED: "This is one of them pussels frum the olden days - yew no, when telly wuz black an' white an' there wuz only two channels. I 'spect peepul fawt it wuz brill when it wuz new... but it smells a bit an' the box is tatty *sigh* an' Mum fawt it wuz wonderful when she found it. Oh an' there's a peece missing..."

A rosebud of the Hybrid Tea cultivar Command Performance, with the photographer's left index finger (.75 [¾] of an inch across - about 17mm…) bending it into view and steadying against the breeze, seen in his parent's garden in San Francisco, CA. Taken by a Nikon D40x with a Sigma 17-70mm ƒ 2.8-4 OS HSM macro lens. (at 70)

2xSB-600s through 60" umbrellas at 1/2 and 1/4 power camera left and right, Gridded Vivitar 285HV camera right. Fired using Flashpoint triggers.

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

Bain News Service,, publisher.

 

Sir Chas. Wyndham as "Capt. Dudley Smooth".

 

1911 June 1 (date created or published later by Bain)

 

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

 

Notes:

Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.

Photo shows English actor Sir Charles Wyndham (1837-1919). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Subjects:

Theatrical

 

Format: Glass negatives.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09264

 

Call Number: LC-B2- 2204-9

  

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

Command Performance 2017: Meet & Greet with Ben Folds - photo by Marshall Hurley

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

Carolina Theatre of Greensboro's Command Performance 2017: Ben Folds and a Piano - photo by Marshall Hurley

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

Cocktail Hour at Command Performance 2017 with entertainment from Evan Olson and Jessica Mashburn - photo by Bruce A. Lee

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

Command Performance 2017 Red Carpet - photo by Lynn Donovan

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

Retouched in Photoshop CS4

 

Single SB-600 at 1/2 power 8' high and 45 deg. camera right fired through 42" umbrella using Cactus triggers.

SB600 at 1/2 power camera left in 24"x36" softbox. SB600 at 1/4 power camera right in 60" umbrella. Vivitar 285HV at 1/16 power through 42" umbrella behind model camera left. All fired using Flashpoint triggers

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