use a manual flash. perhaps a flash panel such as the electra eflash (cheap novoflex flashart clone). the flashart has variable power, the electra doesnt but you canput an ND gel in front of it - because of the large exit surface there will be no heat issue hth ecke
2011/2/21 Larry Colen <[email protected]>: > Last night I tried John's (I think it was John) suggestion about clipping a > light to the strobe to help aim it. While it seems to help with aiming, when > photographing musician in fairly low light, shining a flashlight in their > face while trying to set up the camera seemed to be rather distracting and > annoying. > > I didn't spend a lot of time shooting, but I got a few decent shots. I'm not > unhappy with the results: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157625975573645/ > > I do think that it would work a lot better though if I had a small flash, > maybe a ringflash, on the camera to give it a bit of fill, so the shadows on > the face aren't quite so harsh. Unfortunately, I can't quite figure out how > to do this. Has anyone tried something like this? And succeeded? > > I suppose that with the K-x, I might be able to do something using the pop-up > as both the controller and the fill, but I'd want the pop-up under exposing > by a stop or two. I'm not quite sure how to accomplish this though. > > -- > 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.
