I've been handed an interesting photographic challenge, and would like some
help from the folks here...
I'd like to take pictures of a guy playing music in the foreground, with
fireworks going off behind him. It'll be after dark, and he'll be lit by
about a 250W quartz-halogen flood. According to my OM-4's spot meter,
there's enough light there for an exposure of about 1/2 second at f/4 on ASA
400 film. He's moving too quickly for that to work, however, without a lot
of blur. There's also the problem that, if the normal technique of shooting
fireworks by using a several-second exposure time is used, he'd wind up
being overexposed as well as blurry.
I was thinking that the way to solve both problems is to use a flash to
expose the player, with slow film and the lens stopped down...but I can't
quite figure out how to balance it out. Suggestions?
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