The gold reflector warms the light a bit. It won't balance it totally with tungsten, but it helps a bit.
The old Honeywell potato masher flashes came with a set of snap on filters that included a tungsten match. Way back thirty years or so when I used those flashes, I'd use the tungsten filter from time to time. I remember using it shooting drag racing at night under tungsten lights with my speed graphic. (I was going for long exposures of funny cars on the starting line with flames coming out of the headers.) The flash provided a bit of fill, but the filter gave away two f-stops, which limited the flash's usefulness. Paul On May 22, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Tim Øsleby wrote: > Photonet don't load here. Happens every now and then BTW. So I cant > see the pics. I'll have another look later. > > But I do have one more question. What's the purpose of gold > reflectors? Giving the subject a tan? :-) > Could it be useful for balancing flash light with tungstein light? > > MritimTim > > 2008/5/22 Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I've used flash filters. I once used them quite frequently, but I do >> find them unnecessary, even for wedding receptions and ceremonies. Of >> the last two receptions I shot, one was in a restaurant with tungsten >> lighting. The warmer background combined with the cooler flash looked >> great. The other was in a large banquet hall with a combination of >> window light and tungsten. Couldn't match both in any case, and a >> very minor bit of tweaking again produced nice results. >> >> Room 1 (rather dark with tungsten lights. Went for warm look, >> supplementing light with flash off the ceiling, no filters) >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5321295&size=lg >> >> Room 2 (A mix of tungsten and window light, piano player was in >> shadow so hit her with flash through a white softbox, no filters) >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6363403&size=lg >> >> I do keep a gold reflector and a couple of gels in my event kit, and >> I'd use one or the other if my initial shots showed a need. Hasn't >> happened yet. >> >> BTW Bill, you can't really do JCO mode. We all know you're a pussycat >> at heart:-). In any case, it's wasted on me. >> >> Paul >> >> >> On May 21, 2008, at 8:16 PM, William Robb wrote: >> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Paul Stenquist" >>> Subject: Re: Another flash topic: Colortemp and filters >>> >>> >>>> No need to be sorry, Bill. With decent PhotoShop skills, lighting >>>> balance is simple. >>> >>>> >>>>> Sorry Paul. It's just not practical. >>> >>> >>> <JCO Mode> >>> As Mark mentioned, it can be done on a one off picture with layers >>> and masks, and hopefully you >>> don't have a lot of flash fall off to deal with or you can toos the >>> entire idea out the window. >>> I wouldn't want to try to do an entire wedding that way. >>> It's far easier to just filter the flash to close to the ambient >>> light and use the white balance >>> to dial in the colour for both flash and ambient. >>> Back before white balance, I used to do a lot of colourbacking >>> (filter on flash to match the >>> ambient, filter on camera to balance both). Being able to use white >>> balance only removes the >>> need to filter at the lens. You will still get much nicer results >>> if you filter the flash. >>> </JCO Mode> >>> >>> William Robb >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >>> and follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > MaritimTim > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
