that's better than nothing but the key to soft light is the area of the source is MUCH larger than the subject. That thing would be "soft" for a tiny object nearby like a wristwatch shot or something, other that its not going to look much different than a straight flash head.
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Home Page - www.jchriso.com Join the Audio CD PLAYER DISCUSSION list - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of AlunFoto Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 3:23 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Mini soft box One of my pesos form Runde was obtained using one of those: http://alunfoto.blogspot.com/2009/06/armeria-maritima.html I've tried a smaller box before that hardly made any difference. This one is nice, though. Recommendation from here. Jostein 2009/7/20 David J Brooks <[email protected]>: > I've been looking at one of these.: > > http://www.vistek.ca/store/ProPhotoLightingSoftboxes/125244/lumiquest- > mini-softbox-new.aspx > > Are these useful.?? It says one stop loss, which is fine, but how > useful do you think it would be for fill flash on people out doors, > say in a partial shaded area like under a tree. It seems useful for > flower or some macro work. > > Any comments. Just looking to try and improve my flash workings. > > Dave > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

