Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]you hit the nail on the head. thanks - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] quick,cheapie (home depot) lighting? > Eric asked: > >> I have always shot with available light, hit or miss. > > I thought I would buy a flash for the job but I worry about blown out > > featureless faces from having the flash too close.<<<< > > Eric, > Use what you've always used, available existing light. I can't imagine > there isn't a near by window with nice soft light where you'll work with the > kind of light you're accustomed to, be far better and less stressful than > screwing around with a bunch of lighting gear you've never used before. > > If you start panicking over using gear you haven't worked with you're going > to screw up, sure as heck. More so than doing what comes naturally, the > light you see by. And if you do it the way you've always been doing it > you'll do just fine. > > You see all the questions you've asked in an almost panic state? No need to > ask them at all, just relax and go do your thing as you've done many times > before. Just meter carefully, then concentrate on the subject. :-) > > have a good one and sleep tight to-night. :-) > ted > > > > > -- > 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