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Subject: [OM] OT minimilist lighting setup.
From: bsandyman@xxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:16:46 +0000
Hello all,

I have volenteered myself to take pictures at a new years party at a friend of
mines bar. She is going to do a Chinese New Year theme, and the employees are
going to be dressed in traditional Chinese fashion.

One of the highlights will be an opurtunity to be photographed with an employee,
and buy a print of this. She had been thinking of getting a polaroid for this
purpose, but we are now leaning towards digital.

She has a digital camera, and is looking around for a photo capable printer.

My question is how to set up lighting that is better then I will get off the
flash of the digital camera.

My thinking right now is to get this gadget that is a hot shoe on one end, and
light sensor on the other. When the sensor detects a flash from the primary
camera, it fires the hotshoe. I would get a couple or three of these and use
three identical flashes I already have together with a soft box or some kind of
diffusion filter.

Of course if her digital camera has a hotshoe or a jack for external flash then
I would rather use that.

My concern is that the digital camera's metering system won't be able to handle
external flash setups, and will over-expose everything. So I get flat frontal
lighting or over-exposure as my only two options.

Would the polaroid do any better?

So how does my light set up sound? Is there something better?

Am I basically hosed depending on how flexible the digital camera is?

Would anyone like to give advice on a decent photo printer? What kind of dpi
should I look for?

Thanks!

--
Clendon

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