Just by chance, I found myself amongst assorted Thai ladies on the front row of a fashion show yesterday. The Thai ladies did not approve. They were there for the fashion, but it was clear to them I was only there to perv at the models. I tried to play this down by muttering “my editor at Vogue is going to love these shots”; but they were not convinced. Then a couple of male models hit the catwalk and I was not sure what to do. If I didn’t photograph them then I would reinforce my pervy image; if I did photograph them then I was obviously gay. I compromised by taking a couple of shots with an expression of complete disinterest; not that the Thai ladies cared. As soon as the guys turned up they whipped out cameras, phones and tablets and were snapping away enthusiastically; dirty old pervs.
The lighting was atrocious; spot lights of various colours firing off in no particular sequence, interspersed with periods of dark. The exposure reading on my GX1 was leaping around all over the place, and it was impossible to get any reasonable colour balance.
Still, here are some shots:
Panasonic GX1 with Panasonic/Leica 25mm and Olympus 45mm.
Comments 🔗
2012-04-07| Grant saysDamn the colour balance Spike, this is your finest work in months, possibly years, maybe ever! Thanks for the early warning of horses to follow, we shall attempt to be suitably polite…
2012-04-07| David says" The exposure reading on my GX1 was leaping around all over the place, and it was impossible to get any reasonable colour balance "
The X100 propably would have done better, I guess.
And can you please pm me the phone number of girl #9 (last thai girl), thanks.
2012-04-07| Grant saysDavid! Stop dribbling on the interweb…
2012-04-07| Spike saysBy the time the X100 caught focus, the girl would have gone. Most of the shots were originally green, or blue, or red, or a mixture. The camera just captured the light and I had to fix it in post.
2012-04-07| Spike saysI have plenty more should you be interested.
2012-04-07| Grant saysWell Spike, I’ll swap you photo for photo but be warned, I have nearly as many of the FIAT as you have of glue donors!
2012-04-07| David saysSince FW 1.20 the AF on the X100 is really snappy! I seriously think it would have done quite well. Those models don’t go that fast.
2012-04-08| TheSon saysHow would the X100 magically have compensated for arrays of bright, randomly flashing coloured lights?
2012-04-08| David saysThe X-100 is a magical wonder when it comes to WB!
2012-04-08| Spanky saysI feel that as publisher of Glue Producers Monthly I am letting down my constituency by applying for a press pass to shoot a steeplechase. I am shamed.
Grant if you can match photo for photo of the model that FIAT is using for their Scorpion ads here in America you have my full backing and I’ll gladly hack Spike’s site so you can share your work! I don’t think Spike would even mind that much.
2012-04-08| Grant saysI regret to say, Spanky, that the FIAT of which I am so over-endowed with photos is 90 years old and the Scorpian model would run screaming at the sight of it, so scratch that idea. I can’t imagine kindly old uncle Spike ever not much minding his site being hacked, look how discumbobulated he got at the April Fool avatars, which we all seemed to think were quite neat…
2012-04-09| Spike says“discumbobulated”, genuinej will have orgasmed at this point.
2012-04-09| Spike saysIf it magically changed the colour of something I had lit with a blue spotlight into something that was not blue; I would be hacked off.
2012-04-09| genuinej saysEspecially as it’s discombobulated. A rare, maybe even unprecedented, error by Grant.
2012-04-11| Grant saysDeliberate - well spotted old chap! Don’t forget to wash your hands…