Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I need to take pictures of a few things to put up on eBay. I'm using two flash units for this: relatively small, hot-shoe mounted thingies. Both are on stands, one is connected to the camera via a PC-sync cord, the other is on a slave-trigger shoe on another stand. I use a separate lightmeter to measure the aperture I need to expose properly. So far, so good. I get correctly exposed pictures, with correctly balanced light (I have one provide one f-stop less light than the other: key light and fill-in). But, the problem I have is that there is too much 'glare' on chrome surfaces and in highlights. One way around this is, I guess, to move the lights further away, but I have a whole bunch of different objects, some shot from 15cm, some from 70cm (all with a macro lens), so how do I calculate how far away the lights should be? I have a Photo Techniques article about macro flash, but it doesn't offer any useful advice on light-to-subject distance. However, they have pictures in the article of highly reflective metal objects with beautiful detailing, correct exposure, and no 'glare' in the highlights. Any advice? M. - -- Martin Howard | "I am Pentium of Borg. Division is Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | futile. You will be approximated." email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- Unknown www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------