Tom wrote, concerning the lowly white index card: > Aim the head at the ceiling halfway to the subject, but place a > card behind to reflect some fill. I actually use the side of a 100 sheet > box of b+w paper. I hold it on with a rubber band, which lets me slip > it around to the side for when I shoot vertical on a bracket.
Hi Tom, This is a good trick, and I ~usually~ keep a piece of a 3"x5" card and a rubber band around the head of one of my flashes (didn't have it on this particular day, unfortunately). I always figured it would work well only for landscape orientation of the camera body, since the flash would be sitting "upright" in the hotshoe, and I'd have a three-inch wide section of card behind the flash head to direct light at the subject. I never figured it would work as well for portrait orientation of the camera body, because it that case, the flash is now "sideways", and with the flash head swiveled up toward the ceiling, I'd only have about a 1.5"-wide piece of card reflecting light toward the subject. If I understand you correctly, it sounds like this would still work pretty well. Or am I missing something? Would it be better, for vertical shots, to mount the flash off-camera on a bracket? Thanks again for the advise. Well, enough for now. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Bill Peifer Rochester, NY - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
