RE: Eye Highlights with bounce/flash

2003-10-08 Thread Simon King
Hi Bob, Anthony, Mat and Tom, Thanks for the feedback. The slave flash (GN 30) was providing the same sort of fill as the main light, just bouncing off the ceiling toward the tub. The on camera flash (GN 32) is not TTL, and I had pre metered the scene to arrive at f/16. I think I will try for less

RE: Eye Highlights with bounce/flash

2003-10-08 Thread tom
> -Original Message- > From: Simon King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > It didn't work - only the tiniest light reflection (see > enlargement on > second row). > > What's wrong? If you want bigger catchlights, you need more reflection off the bounce card. Try wrapping the card in aluminum

Re: Eye Highlights with bounce/flash

2003-10-08 Thread Bob S
Simon, Nice shots of your little King. It's been a long time since I did this, as my youngest is 18 now, but you did good. Bathtub photos get all kinds of crazy reflections off the water when you use flash. I don't see any of these in your photos. I think you tried too hard and got too even/

Re: Eye Highlights with bounce/flash

2003-10-07 Thread Mat Maessen
Well, you need to get some light directly into the eyes to get the specular reflections. You could try directing the flash more towards the subject in the tub, or use something like an omni-bounce on the flash head to bounce the light. With your setup using a slave flash, you might be able to d

Eye Highlights with bounce/flash

2003-10-07 Thread Simon King
Hi All, I've been having a problem recently with eye highlights - or rather the lack of them, and wondered if anyone had any suggestions. A good example of the problem I've been having are some photo's of my son in the bath over the weekend. Here are some rough scans from the prints... http://mem