On Mar 16, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > 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)
It looks like you might have gotten some other good shots too. > > > 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. Yeah, they wouldn't be as obvious on a lumpy surface like a crowd as they are on a flat ceiling. > >> 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). I keep meaning to experiment with wireless control using the pop up as a little bit of fill. I don't suppose Jane would be willing to hold the flash about 8 feet from you to get a nicer angle? > >> 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. That would work too. -- 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.
