On Nov 30, 2010, at 10:40 PM, Larry Colen (Droid Mail) wrote: > Buy some cheap slaves and set them up near the stage.
I don't know if there is someplace you could conveniently order something like this from: http://ephotoinc.com/photo-lighting-masterslave-strobe-flash-b445.html They screw into lightbulb sockets and optically trigger. If you could put a few of them in clamp lights and use your strobe on manual to trigger them, they could give you the sort of lighting you need. > > "Boris Liberman" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> The holidays are coming near and I'm having a couple of gigs at >> Galia's class. One involved shooting the general rehearsal of the >> little musical they've been making. Given the fact that the hall was >> empty I could shoot as I pleased. So I also shot a number of shots >> from the distance. >> >> My flash is Metz 40 MZ-2 which is a good flash. In particular it >> auto-zooms as per the actual focal length taking into account the crop >> factor of the camera. However, the ceiling of the hall wasn't the >> ideal surface for bouncing and the distance (10m and upwards) was too >> much to play the bounce game. So I ended up with many properly exposed >> shots but with this ugly shadow behind everyone and everything. >> >> Is there a way to at least make these shadows less prominent during >> the shoot? I reckon the likes of diffuser are necessary but I'd rather >> ask someone who has direct experience with this, as I am total klutz >> to all things flash. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Boris >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
