The spoon is for catchlights. The majority of the light is bounced off the ceiling, and the spoon reflects enough light to make the eyes sparkle. It does the same thing as the built-in bounce card on many flashes.
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:01 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Boris - >> >> Check out the "Better Bounce Card" - It's cheap, easy to make and actually >> works pretty well. It looks a little goofy and you'll get some questions >> about it ;-) . I've used it at a couple weddings and the results were >> definitely much better than direct flash. >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNCmuExlHvM > > A friend of mine uses a large spoon rubber banded to the flash. Not > sure how it works, but its a good ice breaker. > > Dave >> -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.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.
