Thanks Cotty - good reply. I'm hoping to photograph some of the wacky goings-on in Dorset around Midsummer, so there should be plenty of ambient light, but I want to be sure I get the gnarled faces of the peasantry as well as the burning torches.
-- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Cotty > Sent: 07 May 2007 21:23 > To: pentax list > Subject: Re: Summer is icumin in > > On 7/5/07, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Or, more plainly put, what's best for photographing torchlit > >processions? Flash, or no flash? > > Depends on how much ambient light. We get long twilights, so > flash will > be good if there's plenty of ambient light. Less so the > darker it gets. > One problem: flash is daylight colour temperature, and torches and > evening skies are much warmer. This is a good example of the > colour mismatch: > > <http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/spare4.html> > > But this can be corrected for by using a gold diffuser, or at > the photo > editing stage. > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > _____________________________ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
