On 27/3/05, Powell Hargrave, discombobulated, unleashed: >Great stuff Cotty.
Thanks Powell. >How did you balance the exposure and what was the shutter speed? ISO 320, I simply set the focus manually to 1 metre, the aperture to f/8 and let it go. I noticed that a lot of the shots were exposed at 1/15 sec, which sounds right. There was large areas of brighter sky around, but I tried to get the darker hedge behind the lad most of the time to slow the shutter speeds down a bit. I used second-curtain sync with the flash, which was on full auto. The days of me calculating lighting ratios for fill-in flash (using an LX and 280T even!) are long gone ;-) >Must give it a try if I can find some thing that moves around here. You don't even need the subject to move. In a lot of the shots I was moving the camera. There's 3 basic approaches that I used: 1. camera stationary, subject moving (background still, subject blurred + frozen flash) 2. camera panning, subject moving (background blurry, subject blurred + frozen flash) 3. camera moving, subject moving (background blurry, subject blurred + frozen flash) Obviously anything out of range of the flash was blurred, and as things came into range of the flash, the more of a 'frozen' flash image there was, as well as the blurry part. Closest part of the pics, the subject, was frozen at flash firing, and determined overall exposure. I'll continue this in response to Don's quaestion in another email as it strays into his post.... Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
