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Re: [OM] Light Technique Question

Subject: Re: [OM] Light Technique Question
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:33:05 -0400
Maybe we don' need no steenkin' flashes.  Last year I took some pictures 
of my daughter's children and it was necessarily in bright sun... and 
they were wearing white.  The fill flash was a little too hot, burned 
some highlights, darkened the background and made things a mess for me 
to correct.  As I mentioned not long ago, this year I decided to try 
without fill flash and make up the difference in PhotoShop.  Here's what 
I've got so far.
<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Alex%20&%20Caitlin%20-%20August%202009/>

This year was some better light.  It was late morning with a bit of haze 
in the sky.  I managed to put them in dappled shade but dappling always 
bothers me.  Anyhow, as you can see from above it was very easy to apply 
a little exposure adjustment, a little shadow fill, a little highlight 
recovery, and a bit of "clarity".  What's missing for sure is the flash 
catch lights.  I'm not sure what if anything I'll do from here but it's 
certainly possible I think to do without the flash and make do with 
post-processing.  Even the shot on the tire in full sun doesn't look too 
bad.

Dr. No Flash


Daniel Sepke wrote:
> At the risk of incurring the wrath of Dr Flash ( J ) I have a question
> regarding the FL50r in FP mode and use with a softbox. First some background
> as to why I want to know this.
> 
>  
> 
> I am about to enter my portraits season and specifically need the FP mode of
> the FL50 or FL50r to get the aperture I want to use (outdoor shade in the
> late afternoon with f2 or f2.8). My testing with my FL50 on camera got my
> intended DOF results but the fill light was a bit flat, even with a
> Stroboframe to lift it higher but it still on axis. Typically I have use
> fill off to one side for some modeling  on facial features. In the past for
> this type of shots I have worked in full  manual with a Qflash on a softbox
> and handheld metering/chimping. But this has always resulted in having to
> work stopped down a bit more than my artistic side would like to bring the
> shutter speed under the sync limits for conventional flash.
> 
>  
> 
> So the question is does anyone here have experience with using an FL50r with
> a softbox (or possibly a bounce card) off camera in FP mode? The follow on
> question would be regarding triggering reliability with the E-3's built in
> flash versus a second FL50r in the hotshoe as trigger (I wish that the Radio
> Poppers TTL model supported Olympus). If you have used a softbox what
> considerations regarding line of sight for the triggering should I look out
> for?
> 
>  
> 
> TIA, Dan S.
> 
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