Hi Joseph:
I've fine tuned my flower photography technique over many years, but got bored
with the subject and only shoot them on assignment or with an article /
lecture in mind. In fact, I'm even bored writing about the technique. But I
did do up a posting on how I match my film speed to the ambient light and use
manual flash settings to get two stops over the ambient light. This basically
treats the ambient light as fill and the flash as the main modeling light. I
don't trust OTF metering with small macro subjects and dark backgrounds! The
discussion would be in the early 1998 List Archives, but I sure don't recall
the subject line. At any rate, before I bore you, too, let me say that
underexposing the background by two stops does wonders in keeping it
unobtrusive, but still natural looking, even with a 50mm macro. In a pinch,
even a one stop under exposure will do. It is the only way I came up with to
get around the 1/60th flash sync speed limitation (incl. the under 1/60th
limitation of the OM-2) and I grew happy with it, as did those using my shots.
Be prepared to use Kodachrome 25 in open, sunlight situations, though.
Perhaps it is partly because of the need to use K25 that I got tired of flower
shots. Off color processing of K25 is enough to rium anyone's day.
Gary Reese
Las Vegas, NV
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