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From: Icoz, Evrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://www.pdxswing.com/DanceP_July2001/
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> This is the same venue as the one with the well exposed one. I manual
> focused to get better focusing. I was close enought to take most of those
> with a 50-70mm range. Esp. numbers
> 73-74-69-66-67 are mysteryously underexposed.
Hi Evrim, Shooting with a single attached flash is always fairly limiting,
especially in this type of environment. You have a large distance between
subject and background in a lot of these and cannot light both correctly
with one flash.
I looked at your pictures and don't quite follow your exposure complaint.
Lets take numbers 72, 73, and 74 for example - you feel that 73 and 74 are
under-exposed.
Number 72 has too much flash exposure on the subject and suffers for it. It
seems to have split the exposure between the dancers and the group of people
on the right. Probably because it isn't framed tight on the subject.
Number 73 has about perfect flash exposure for the subject.
Number 74 is a little under-exposed on the subject. It might be that the
male dancers white outfit is responsible for upsetting the metering
slightly.
In all cases the far background is dark as I would expect with your setup.
To improve this you would have to add some lighting to the background and/or
use a faster film. Some factor must have been different on previous shoots
I couldn't access that link ). It's not too mysterious, you had a wide
aperture set, subject exposure is good (ie #73), therefore your equipment is
working fine but the background is too far away and poorly lit for your
ambient exposure.
Number 69 and 70 are good examples of the limitation of a single flash. You
have subject distance to the camera from fairly close then moving
progressively further away, as such, the closer people are overexposed, mid
distances good, furthest subjects underexposed. You can only move sideways
to equalise all subjects distance to the camera, or increase ambient
exposure to reduce flash effect.
I'd use faster film to achieve this, however, for action dance shots I would
probably be happy with no backgound and crop nice and close on the subjects.
Just an opinion Evrim. I hate flash photography and am not real good at it.
Regards, Tim
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