Didn't Pentax have the only zoom reflex mirror on the market at one time?

There was that one year my wife stopped me from sending my mother-in-law plane tickets to come visit us. I was gonna call the airport and tell them she was muling cocaine. If I had known then, my wife and I were gonna get a divorce, I never would have let her talk me out of it.... Cavity search probably would've been the most fun she ever had...lol!

I havn't had vodka in ages, but that might be just the bottle to go with the splash on the strawberries...


now I said I'd share so here goes:

my strawberry shots combine techniques from both "Pour" or "Water splash" shots and what makes this shot easier involves using photoshop to remove wooden toothpicks or shiskabob skewers from the fruit..

does that help or raise mor questions?

sent my wife to the auto supply store to buy some headlight fluid.

well thanx guys... the knife did get wiped off before the shot, to be honest, it's my camping knife, a cheap oneida and yes it is chipped up...

I only have two decent knives in my kitchen, a achrade and a cleaver and they stay there, this knife is always in with the camping gear, near the studio... soooo I plan to redo this shot, but have to go buy a new knife first.... I want the reflection of the strawberry on the blade in the final shot.

will give a little more technical info later, but I want to get a finished set on my website first so I'll be back with some tips later...

the pentax is a fine lens.

it's true.... I'm actually a very good cook, buuuuuutttttt..... my knives have been abused.... in my defense, I've never used my camera as a hammer!

that is sooo hilarious that you mention that!
My camping weapon:



I'm after Gerri, (my better half) to invest in some heinkle knives, I only have one decent knife and a good cleaver, but she doesn't trust me, 'cause while I'm not adverse to buying quality, I'm also dumb enough to use them as screwdrivers....

I got a friend that does something similar for a big company that does dinner theatres.

here's what he does:

Shoots the cast in costume on seamless white, 3 light setup.

Shoots each cast member separately and adds them all to a final psd in seperate layers to create a groupshot.
(if an actor is replaced, he need only shoot the replacement and drop him in... as opposed to reshooting a groupshot...

then a background and text stuff is overlayed...

then for the stage shots he uses a tripod and the stage lighting.

in other words shoot them seperately, or use the stage lighting, and no flash

if you do go with say, a pentax 360 and shoot through umbrella, you could set up a tripod, get a decent ambient exposure for the set (maybe slightly under expose it) then do one shot of each cast member on different places on stage, and light each person with your shoot through umbrella, have the umbrella close to the subject... have your camera stationary, getting the whole stage in the frame... stack all the images when your done, and just erase out the umbrella from each frame letting only the people and the stage show through...
when you're done you got all the people, each properly exposed in seperate layers and they'll all line up because you never moved the camera!

yes, flash, dark room
more info later...