replacing poor daylight with flash

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

12/18/2006 03:44:09 PM · #1

I had to shoot in a large hall in a statley home in Middlesex UK.
There was no daylight comming in through the windsows at all so I set up 4 500 watt mono light flash heads 1 outside each window. to my right i had large lastolite reflectors to bounbce the flash onto my model. I took my flash reading from my models face pointing the invercone towards my camera position.

The give away is the fact that the shadows of the window frames are converging. Real sun light has parralel shadows but I dont think the layman will know.

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MudHut

Canon EOS-40D

12/18/2006 03:51:12 PM · #2

You have some amazing work there ! edit bump !

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Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

12/18/2006 03:53:38 PM · #3

Looks great Bruce - but you are right - I can see the shadows diverging, with the upper shadows going upwards as if from a light source that wasn't up in the sky. I doubt many people would see it that weren't looking for lighting cues though.

I guess longer light stands or taller assistants could cure that if you wanted to, or some sort of cherry picker ;) Has a great feel as is.

12/18/2006 04:08:06 PM · #4

Very true. I had my lights on stands as high as they would go.

:-)

12/18/2006 04:09:00 PM · #5

Originally posted by BruceSmith:

Very true. I had my lights on stands as high as they would go.

:-)

Would you have spotted that If I had not told you LOL

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

12/19/2006 12:19:35 PM · #6

Originally posted by BruceSmith:

Would you have spotted that If I had not told you LOL

Probably, but that's because I'm trying to learn to read lighting and as a result am paying more attention to it. Wouldn't expect most people to see it or care ;) I seem to spend a lot of time looking at people's eyes and other reflective surfaces.

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12/19/2006 02:51:32 PM · #7

Thats about the best method for detecting how a shots been lit. The obvious things are main light direction and type, clip lights how they hit the model, what type of main and key lights have been used etc etc.