Sac> Please, if you would, explain "action"? Hi Mafud, no need to be confused. Perhaps I chose a wrong word (happens when English is not my mother tongue). The setup I had in mind was simply (I think I mentioned it in the earlier posts) two flashes, one on bracket one on camera or bracket but other side, still handholdable, maybe one bounced one fill-in, maybe one held offcamera in other hand (to avoid direct lighting) while the second flash is on camera for fill-in.
Type of pictures - portraits on location, "reportage" (not exactly the word I would use here) of banquets or parties, generally people shots out of studio where there is not enough light (of course, for me, an "available-dark" photographer by hobby, there is never not enough light! But clients (how strange <g>) don't like rugby-sized grain, contrast so high & sharp you can cut bread with it, "atmospheric" blurring due to camera shake and simpy don't appretiate the darkroom magic that lets me shoot Ilford HP5+ 400 pushed to 3200 and get very nice results (btw, I will scan a print I have made from this neg, you almost can't tell its a 3 stop push!). They want colour :( And why I used the word "action" - this multiflash setup (with one removed one close to camera) is often used in many urban sports photography, like skateboarding and similar. Although I love available light, there are shots I do with flash, just to be sure they will turn out usable everytime. I hate frontal flash, so I use my flash off-camera, held about 1m removed to the left and above via Metz 307A cable (or held by my pretty asisstant <g>). This gives me much more natural looking photos than frontal or even bounced flash, but I still need some fill-in light source. And I don't have enough pretty girlfriends to have one hold the flash, the other hold an umbrella over it and the third hold a large white styrofoam plate to fill-in harsh shadows, while the fourth... enough! Frantisek (who most often just holds flash with one hand, holds camera with the other hand and hopes the camera will autofocus well enough, while wishing for a third hand to focus/zoom with). It looks funny - like the old time photographers with head under the largeformat focusing hood of their 5x7" or larger camera, holding with one hand above the camera a bracket with flashpowder... Best regards, Frantisek Vlcek - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
