Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 6/8/01 7:39 PM, Eric at ericm@pobox.com wrote: > Firing the flash > backwards seems to do a better job of providing even illumination over more > than just the subject. Makes sense now that I stop to think about it. > Instead of a subject at 3 ft away and a background at 8 ft away, the light > is traveling about 15 ft + 3 and 15 ft + 8. Instead of a 7:1 difference, > it's a 1.6:1 difference. also instead of a tiny point light source you have a massive source ie the wall. that's the biggest difference. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com