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Subject: Re: [OM] Recent Works
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 01:14:50 -0500
At 23:27 10/15/02, Tim wrote:
http://johnlind.tripod.com/oly/gallery/om157.jpg

Good exposure. Just enough detail in the highlights, and no dark shadows on the petal. Looks like you bounced the flash off something on the right side to 'fill' in. ( I could be wrong). From my experience such high-key subjects are notoriously difficult to expose right without losing some detail in the highlights, and usually takes a bit of bracketing.

-Tim

Tim,
I used two monolights for this one (and many of the others). The one on camera left was the key light and the other was fill, about two stops down from the key light. Both lights had 36-inch "shoot through" umbrellas on them. Key light was positioned approximately for "Rembrandt" type lighting. The fill was similarly positioned on the opposite side. Used an ancient Gossen flash meter to measure incident light with the dome aimed at the camera lens. I've found that ancient meter to be quite accurate. With this type of lighting and Kodachrome, using an incident reading works out well and doesn't blow out the highlights. Saw the slide you mention and the other one with less magnification (more of plant, a peace lily) and the contrast with the black background stood out among the rest! If it weren't for the green in stem and tip of flower, it could almost pass as a B&W.

BTW, the only real bracketing I perform is with lens aperture, attempting to get just barely enough depth of field, which is very hard to guage through the viewfinder (using the preview button on the lens).

Thanks,
-- John


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