Peter,
You're so predictable...:-)
Jostein
----- Original Message -----
From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: PESO - Herding Livestock
You know you want one.
Jostein wrote:
Dan,
I think the Pentax (for example) ring flash has two tubes, and one
can choose to fire one or both in each blink. When using both
tubes, one ends up without shadows. That usually looks quite
unnatural. When using one tube, the shadows will suffer from the
small size of the tube. It produces quite hard shadows compared to
a large-headed conventional flash fired from the same distance.
Cotty mentioned that ring flashes are too weak to illuminate the
background. In my opinion that's only half the truth, because
conventional flashes directed towards the foreground will tend to
do exactly the same thing, only that it spreads the light much
broader than a ring flash. The chance of illuminating some near
background is larger.
Besides, I don't have a ring flash, and fear the enablement powers
of this forum...:-)
Cheers,
Jostein
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel J. Matyola"
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To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: PESO - Herding Livestock
What is wrong with ring flash for this type of shot?
Jostein wrote:
http://www.oksne.net/paw/herdingants.html
Those little critters are hard to keep in focus when working hand
held. It's pretty much hit and miss, and this is the best I've
managed so far.
One particular problem with ants is that their hide is hard and
shiny. With a bare flash, the highlights become specular and
burned out. Using a miniature softbox lessen the problem, but
it's not all gone. Does anyone know a good way to handle this
without resorting to ring flashes?
Jostein
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