On Jan 22, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > I shot this in a fitness center. Relatively small room.
I love the light on the instructor. I think the students might have benefitted from a slightly faster shutter speed. Did you have a warming gel on the flash? The ambient light doesn't seem way out of color balance. > There was a row of mirrors behind me. I shot with the flash on camera, > pointing backwards over my shoulder and up at about a 45 degree angle, so > that it centered approximately on the pint where the ceiling and mirrors met. > I believe I had a diffuser on the flash, probably a softbox. I checked to > make sure I wasn't creating a hot spot in the mirrors on the other side of > the room before firing away. Unfortunately, no mirrors on the back of the room but could try bouncing off the back wall and ceiling. > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5869395&size=lg > > On Jan 22, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> In a couple of weeks, I'm going to be doing dance portraits again at a local >> milonga. There's a small dance studio room, my guess is that it's about 9' >> wide, by 15' long with mirrors along the left wall, and behind the curtain >> in these shots: >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157625618971307/ >> >> I'm not entirely pleased with the lighting in these shots, what I think that >> I need to do is something akin to a lightsphere on my big strobe, back and >> to the right of the camera as my key, bouncing a lot of the light off the >> ceiling. With luck, I'd get enough bounce off the mirror to fill on the >> left that I may not need much in the way of fill flash on the left. >> >> Has anyone had any luck doing something like this? What did you use for an >> oversized fongdong? >> >> Any other suggestions on how to handle the lighting? >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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.
