A flash meter is best used in incident mode. When shooting a model, position it
in an area where you want a normal, correct exposure (as opposed to a highlight
or shadow), point it at the camera lens and fire your strobes. The f-stop
displayed on the meter should be your exposure. To see how muc
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> Date: May 31, 2012 4:09:36 PM PDT
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> will check the pics later, underage sidekick is near. :-)
These pictures are just of the
Larry wrote:
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> I did some art nudes with a friend last night using my studio flash
> gear. As an experiment, I pulled out the flash meter and when I'd get
> my lighting dialed in, I'd take a picture of the flash meter and a grey card.
I know that you've got an FA77Ltd - why are you shooting at
According to this article, you've got it about right. But there's no
point to using the gray card there, just hold the meter near the part
of the image that will be the brightest (or most sensitive to
overexposure, like facial skin), with the dome pointing back at the
camera lens (one general metho
ossible.
will check the pics later, underage sidekick is near. :-)
lf
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 12:31:12 -0700
From: Larry Colen
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Flash Meter experiment
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On May 31, 2012, at 1:44 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
> On 5/31/2012 3:31 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
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>> For those that would like to check for themselves, fluidr shows the exif
>> data, so you can see the flash meter reading, and my actual exposure data.
>> http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/
On 5/31/2012 3:31 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I did some art nudes with a friend last night using my studio flash gear. As
an experiment, I pulled out the flash meter and when I'd get my lighting dialed
in, I'd take a picture of the flash meter and a grey card.
As far as I can tell, the way it work
I did some art nudes with a friend last night using my studio flash gear. As
an experiment, I pulled out the flash meter and when I'd get my lighting dialed
in, I'd take a picture of the flash meter and a grey card.
As far as I can tell, the way it works is to fire the strobe. the f/stop that
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