Morning Light with Lioness (Patreon)

When we get a hotel the goal is to sleep, shower and shoot.  It seems unless you are in Arizona 150 miles from one of the major interstate's you are going to be paying a minimum of $60 for a room that doesn't have cockroaches.  Sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less.  I scored a room two years ago for $15 a night.  The temperature settings were intentionally broken off the AC, and the shower had an intense layer of rust covering everything, but it did the trick for what I needed.  I have a thing for cheap dingy motel rooms.  The kind that look like they were beat up by one rooms from a Chas Ray Krider Photo.  They photograph like a dream, and like a dream they seam to be a fleeting memory.

So when we opened the door to our room in Denver, I was excited to try and shoot in this perfectly ugly room.  Using just the incandescent lighting in the room and the morning light coming through the window Lioness and I shot this simple little set.  Pushing the 5d MKII right up to its limit I shot this at ISO 4000 and F1.4 with the Sigma 85mm F1.4.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8xybzpvjr6aenq5/AAB1zIC_hqbe0_VnUHmLLAFda?dl=0