See below: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > Last night I tried John's (I think it was John) suggestion about clipping a > light to the strobe to help aim it. While it seems to help with aiming, when > photographing musician in fairly low light, shining a flashlight in their > face while trying to set up the camera seemed to be rather distracting and > annoying. > Tape a large diameter straw to the top of the flash and look through it to aim it. Doesn't distract anyone and works in any light level.
> I didn't spend a lot of time shooting, but I got a few decent shots. I'm not > unhappy with the results: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157625975573645/ > > I do think that it would work a lot better though if I had a small flash, > maybe a ringflash, on the camera to give it a bit of fill, so the shadows on > the face aren't quite so harsh. Unfortunately, I can't quite figure out how > to do this. Has anyone tried something like this? And succeeded? > You don't necessarily need a ringflash, any flash that is near to the lens axis will work for the fill that you are looking for. For the style that you are shooting, the biggest impact you will see from on-axis flash will be opening up facial shadows, and putting a catchlight in the eyes, and opening up the wall shadows a bit (if you can, get them away from the wall to avoid the nasty shadow on the wall). The style you are shooting though, works well with the single hard light. You might want to look at using a grid in addition to, or instead of the snoot. The grid will also restrict the light, but the falloff if much smoother than a straight snoot. > I suppose that with the K-x, I might be able to do something using the pop-up > as both the controller and the fill, but I'd want the pop-up under exposing > by a stop or two. I'm not quite sure how to accomplish this though. > It may be possible, but AFAIK, the remote flash will need to be P-TTL for this to work, and the pop-up flash will need to be able to as a controller (I don't know if the K-x can do this, but two P-TTL flashes should be able to). You could also put an optical trigger on the remote flash and use the pop-up to trigger it. The downside to this is that the pop-up uses FEC values, and the remote would be manual or auto mode, so you'd need to play with getting the power levels right (manual mode on the camera should work for this) > -- > 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. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
