Most studio-style lights have the option to remove the reflector giving you a barebulb flash (which is what those fong-dongy things are largely immitating).
I'm curious why you're not pleased with the lighting in your samples? The reason I ask ... the light is good, but almost too flat for my taste. Not enough directionality to it. And going barebulb would only flatten the light even further. Were I to do it, I'd start by setting my main light opposite the mirror with a large scrim between the light and the subject (letting the mirror provide fill). I'm also curious ... seeing these are dance portraits, and you're in a dance room, what's behind the curtain? On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > In a couple of weeks, I'm going to be doing dance portraits again at a local > milonga. There's a small dance studio room, my guess is that it's about 9' > wide, by 15' long with mirrors along the left wall, and behind the curtain in > these shots: > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157625618971307/ > > I'm not entirely pleased with the lighting in these shots, what I think that > I need to do is something akin to a lightsphere on my big strobe, back and to > the right of the camera as my key, bouncing a lot of the light off the > ceiling. With luck, I'd get enough bounce off the mirror to fill on the left > that I may not need much in the way of fill flash on the left. > > Has anyone had any luck doing something like this? What did you use for an > oversized fongdong? > > Any other suggestions on how to handle the lighting? > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- ~Nick David Wright http://www.nickdavidwright.net/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
