On Jan 22, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > 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.
I wanted a hint of motion. Plus, I had to go with a fairly small ap to get enough DOF, and I didn't want to be too far off the ambient lighting in exposure to avoid a substantial loss of illumination toward the back of the room. > > Did you have a warming gel on the flash? The ambient light doesn't seem way > out of color balance. No warming gel. I just rendered it warm, because it felt right. > >> 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. -- 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.
