Any diffuser will help some, but it also eats into the flashes range. If you're close enough, a really broad diffuser like a lightsphere or omnibounce will help quite a bit. With or without the diffuser, you can make the shadows less objectionable by mounting the flash a foot or more above the lens and centered above it. Many third party flash brackets can help you accomplish that. Paul
On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Boris Liberman 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. -- 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.
