Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >mail2web - Check your email from the web at >http://mail2web.com/ . > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html