Wouldn't it be tons easier to simply use an umbrella? On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <gdigio...@gmail.com> wrote: > I hate those shadows. Shooting in an auditorium or gymnasium, with > high ceilings and nothing useful to bounce against, these are always a > pain to work with. I've not found that the on-flash diffusers help > very much, even the LumiQuest big-bounce. Oh, they do help some, but > they're just not really big enough to spread the light out relative to > the subject. > > My solution is a bit of business to manage, really should have an > assistant. I bought a 6x4 foot piece of semi-translucent white plastic > sheet at a local plastics supply shop and rigged a simple frame for it > using a boom, a lightstand and a couple sand bags ... liberally > treated with gaffers tape. I set it up over my position and pump the > flash up into it, aimed at the subject from as close a distance as I > can manage to get them all in the frame. If it's not enough light, I > put a couple more lights on stands pointed into it. (manual flash > techniques at that point...) With a couple of pops to get the exposure > right and a small flash pointed directly to get some sparkle, it helps > kill the black outlines. > > It works well for group shots in those locations. > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> 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 >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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