Granted this was a lot of work, but really fun too. I was inspired by a photo in our Photo Printing Lab, that has the similar effect yet that one is a little more crisper than this. Yet I did want some blending to happen with this, I believe it adds to the chaos of this hand being won by some and lost by others.
To make this shot happen we started by metering and got a reading for 7.1, yet after the first shot we saw that was too dark, and not near the effect we wanted. My partner Alison and I decided to get the camera closer and up the apture a stop to f/14, to get the timing down to just the right on each character we did sort of a test strip. We took a photo where the the guy on the far left got 2 seconds of paint with the Mag Lite Flash light and then each other person then was increased by 2. So after our 2, 4,6,8 shot we saw that 6 to 8 was about right. We decided that we should shoot 6 seconds on the guys closer to the camera and 8 on the ones on the back side of the table. We played with that and then thought about popping a flash to really get some defination on each person and the table. The table was actually painted in last.
So on the last two shots we had a flash on manual pop at 1/32 on each person then painted them in for 2-3 seconds for the blending and rest of the detail.
As far as moving into the positions well that was just magic, and the help of a backstage and some cell phone light. I started in the gangsters seat, then we opened the shutter, once it was done I walked behind the black backdrop changed into the hoodie and used my little cell phone light to find my way back to my seat as the hooded dealer. That hoodie with its dark material became really hard to paint, and bring out. After being painted and flashed, I walked behind again and put my real college guy personality on with t-shirt and jeans and backwards hat. Finally I lost the jeans and went down to some boxers for the final look at the poker realm.
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