Well, 20 of the first 35 have kids in motion. I wasn't cheating too
much. :-)
Covering the large room is done by bouncing off the ceiling, using a
long shutter drag (1/15 second or more) and making judicious use of
shadow fill to make up for the light falloff at the end of the room.
Chuck Norcutt
Jim Nichols wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> I did that for a number of years with a Braun flash unit and film cameras.
> It does work well. Your examples are excellent, though I notice that a
> large number of them have the subjects seated in chairs, which, I feel, is
> cheating.
>
> I was hoping to explore the higher ISA digital settings and not have to use
> the intrusive flash. I did use on-camera flash for some close-in shots, but
> it won't cover a large room.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 6:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Manual Focus vs AF
>
>
>> There is a grandchild/great-grandchild immobilizer. It's called a
>> flash. The first 35 of these (which I think I've shown here before) are
>> just camera mounted flash bounced off the ceiling at ISO 100, 1/15
>> second, f/11. The flash was probably a Canyon 540EZ but could have been
>> a T32. I don't remember. Not portrait quality stuff but everybody is
>> reasonably well lit and reasonably in focus. Tokina 28-80 with shots
>> covering the full zoom range. The latter stuff is ISO 3200 under an
>> overhead incandescent. Not the best light.
>> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Thanksgiving%202008/>
>>
>> Dr. Flash
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> More useful at my age would be a great-grandchild immobilizer. Last
>>> Christmas, I drove myself crazy trying to use an autofocus lens among a
>>> crowd of moving folks. I think zone focusing is much simpler.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 5:45 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [OM] Manual Focus vs AF
>>>
>>>
>>>> New feature in the upcoming E-X: Snake-Eye Detection!
>>>> AG
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