Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12

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Subject: RE: Re: [Leica] Camera Shake
From: Jeffery Smith <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:32:36 -0600

Good example, Doug. I did an entire wedding reception that way, and the 
lighting was quite similar. The lamps still looked like lamps, but the skin 
looked natural. I'll have to see if I have any of those slides in storage.


At 06:44 PM 3/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Jeffery Smith wrote:
>
> >
> > Using a flash bounced off the wall or ceiling would give you some freezing
> > without making the image look like it was taken with a flash. I used to
> > use a Vivitar 283 and Ektachrome 400, but I think that a similarly
> > powerful flash bounced off the ceiling with Fuji Superia 800 might be even
> > better.
> >
> >Jeffery Smith
>
>An example of bounced flash (Vivitar 283) mixed with ambient window light 
>plus the lamp:
>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~telyt/hans/dec2000.jpg
>
>It's an old family snapshot so don't comment on the composition, but I 
>like the way the light worked out.  As I recall I used 200-speed film in 
>an off-topic camera.  Neither the camera nor the flash have fancy 
>compensation controls or fill-ratio control panels so I set both camera 
>and flash as though I was using 400-speed film.  Piece of cake.
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
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