Here is the moment when this photo was taken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5S_N94zkU8&#t=616s

You can see my flash going through the dancers at ~10:16-10:17
(I was on the opposite side of the circle)


Larry wrote:
> I didn't realize it was a jam with everyone sitting down.

Actually, - the fact that I was also sitting down created a harsher
shadow  - photos taken at a different jam, when I was photographing from 
the same level or slightly above didn't have such drastic shadows.

>Or, you could put your light on a monopod and hold it up and away from
>the camera.

Not a feasible solution. It is not compact enough (and not controllable
enough in a crowd). Even just with a hot-shoe flash I had one of the
couples swinging a hand/arm into the flash or the lens shade
(fortunately without any consequences to either side).

> You could try getting one of those fabric reflectors that velcro onto
> the flash and wrap it around three sides, point the flash straight up,
> most of the light will bounce, but you'll get a bunch of fill going
> straight forward.

That ceiling didn't bounce much light. It one of those sound-proof
dropped (aka false-) ceilings that are porous.
It is also rather high.

> I'd probably make one of my water jug diffusers, but put foil on three
> sides so that it would be like a directed fongdong.

I was already thinking about attaching some foil on the Lightsphere
sides.


And a clarification:

> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:16:49 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Igor Roshchin <s...@komkon.org>
>
>
> Flash: yes, Boris, you are right. This is a consious decision:
> the dance is too fast (the music was probably about 200-250 bpm when 
> that shot was taken), so, 1/80 s or 1/100 s is the longest exposure I can

I just listened to the audio on Youtube, - it is about 266 bpm.


Cheers, 

Igor


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