Cool! Overcoming the "newer/automated is better" hypnosis can lead to
Good Things.
So, where are the results posted? :D
ScottGee1
On 1/16/06, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> This weekend I really became aware of the benefits of digital for
> formal flash work. Those hyper-expensive units are only really useful
> for paparazzi work! You can do really well on the cheap.
> The problem was that a family member was selling a house and was
> unhappy with the shots that the nice man from the agent had produced
> - pro-photog with a Nikon high end and a rather wide lens. This house
> has great view but is oldish and fairly dark inside. Seller was cross
> that the vistas from the dining room were burned out almost totally
> as this is a major selling point. He is the cousin who teaches
> Photoshop but has not done any studio work since his film days. Did
> I, was the question, have anything wide enough as he didn't?
> Consider this for a rig. My tiny 8mp Ricoh GR Digital with its wide
> converter - effective 21mm perspective. Mounted on a big Manfrotto
> with his SBtwentysomething flash and Stofen diffuser on it (the flash
> was 3 times the size of the camera). Meter for the mountains in the
> distance and light up the room - bounce the on-shoe flash and two
> slave-triggered, cheap, low power mono-blocks with umbrellas (typical
> economy portable beginners kit - under $400 second hand). Laughable
> really but I know thta the GR renders flash well.
> To my amazement it worked brilliantly - everything from the leg under
> the table to the distant sunlight mountains through the window.
> Now, it occurred to me that you can use anything with a digital,
> anything at all. We just banged away until we got it right and we
> didn't have too many adjustments - the monoblocks only have full or
> half power choices. Shoot and check the histogram and zoom in on the
> display on the difficult areas. (The shadows under the table, the
> white on white cornices, the distant, blue hills).
> I just ordered up one of those Sunpack slave brackets for use with
> any old manual flash, plus a new Sunpak shoe mount flat panel flash
> 'cos I've realised that if you are using a compact, even an Oly one
> like an 8080, you can trial and error it like mad and use any old
> flash rig that you can cobble together. Remember when we used to use
> Polaroids to check flash?
> He was so pleased that we went off and reshot the bathroom and
> bedroom as well. Great.
> Free at last of the fear of flash!
> AndrewF
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