Dave, In loosely following this thread I seem to recall you wanting to flash fill in sunlit situations. If I am mistaken, please ignore the following.
I use flash quite extensively with wedding and portrait work - both as fill and main light source. It has been my experience that when the sun is providing the main light, unless you are working quite close to the subject (macro) or you have highly reflective objects in the frame, that a light modifier doesn't really make much difference at all, just robs power from the flash. So even though I use modifiers most of the time with flash as the primary light source, when I am shooting outdoors with the sun as the main light source, I don't bother with any modifier - it just doesn't make any difference that you can see. Now this does mean that you have to control the amount of fill - the AF360 flash has the ability to dial in compensation - I use somewhere between -2.00 and -0.5 usually depending on the brightness of the sun. When compensated properly, you won't notice flash usage in the picture, but the shadows will fill and catchlights will be there and dark eye sockets will go away. Hope this helps. -- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 3:06:00 AM, you wrote: DJB> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:28 PM, paul DJB> stenquist<[email protected]> wrote: >> I have the Lumina softbox for on-camera flash. It's okay, but the >> Lightsphere provides more diffusion. The softbox is good when you can't >> sacrifice more than a stop or two. DJB> Thats is my other option that i am pondering at the moment. DJB> Dave >> Paul -- 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.
