The non-night night shot

On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:49:32 -0700 (PDT), Vance wrote:
: The Night Shot SI is coming up and I was a little tempted, but just a
: little, to enter the final version of this shot. This is a test
: location shot for a book cover. Very noire, 40's, Dashiel Hammet type
: of thing. Finished, it will have the requisite model in trench coat
: and big floppy hat, shadowed face and something threatening (still to
: be determined) . However, it's not a night shot.
:
: I'm just posting this in case anyone has a flash and wants to play
: with it a little. Here's the stairwell as it was on an overcast day:
:
: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink
:
: And here it is with a flash mounted behind the light fixture to the
: right. Shots like this are pretty easy. Meter the ambient light, or
: the reflected scene and decrease exposure. In this case, 1 2/3
: stops. Set your flash to give you the proper exposure for the
: aperture you are using. The flash here was a Canon 580 EX clamped to
: the conduit feeding the light fixture with a black piece of
: construction paper ...

Say no more; I'm in. I was already contemplating the submission of a phony
night shot (properly identified, of course), and you've "carried firm
conviction to my hesitating heart". (Extra prestige points to him (her) who
identifies the quotation!)

I did not, however, involve my 580EX in the deception. It shall remain
blameless. ;^)

Bob