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Need noobie info
I have shot people quite a bit using on-camera flash and slaves...but now I
have a couple of cheap monos with umbrellas and could use some help learning to use them effectively. They have a half-power setting....will that automatically give me the 1:2 ratio I have read about if I set one on full and one on half and both are the same distance from the subject? How would I determine the right distance? It's been a long time since I read about guide numbers....and I don't recall anything about them. Since my camera is just 4mp (Oly E-10) I prefer to take head shots...sometimes a bit more. How do I calculate my setup? Inexpensive flash meter is on order as well as cable release....I am sure to have some questions when I get it. -- Thanks, Gene Palmiter (visit my photo gallery at http://palmiter.dotphoto.com) freebridge design group www.route611.com & Route 611 Magazine |
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"Gene Palmiter" escribió en el mensaje newsTejd.1297$gS1.53@trndny04... I have shot people quite a bit using on-camera flash and slaves...but now I have a couple of cheap monos with umbrellas and could use some help learning to use them effectively. They have a half-power setting....will that automatically give me the 1:2 ratio I have read about if I set one on full and one on half and both are the same distance from the subject? How would I determine the right distance? It's been a long time since I read about guide numbers....and I don't recall anything about them. Since my camera is just 4mp (Oly E-10) I prefer to take head shots...sometimes a bit more. How do I calculate my setup? Inexpensive flash meter is on order as well as cable release....I am sure to have some questions when I get it. -- Thanks, Gene Palmiter (visit my photo gallery at http://palmiter.dotphoto.com) freebridge design group www.route611.com & Route 611 Magazine |
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"Gene Palmiter" escribió en el mensaje newsTejd.1297$gS1.53@trndny04... I have shot people quite a bit using on-camera flash and slaves...but now I have a couple of cheap monos with umbrellas and could use some help learning to use them effectively. They have a half-power setting....will that automatically give me the 1:2 ratio I have read about if I set one on full and one on half and both are the same distance from the subject? How would I determine the right distance? It's been a long time since I read about guide numbers....and I don't recall anything about them. Since my camera is just 4mp (Oly E-10) I prefer to take head shots...sometimes a bit more. How do I calculate my setup? Inexpensive flash meter is on order as well as cable release....I am sure to have some questions when I get it. -- Thanks, Gene Palmiter (visit my photo gallery at http://palmiter.dotphoto.com) freebridge design group www.route611.com & Route 611 Magazine |
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"Gene Palmiter" escribió en el mensaje newsTejd.1297$gS1.53@trndny04... I have shot people quite a bit using on-camera flash and slaves...but now I have a couple of cheap monos with umbrellas and could use some help learning to use them effectively. They have a half-power setting....will that automatically give me the 1:2 ratio I have read about if I set one on full and one on half and both are the same distance from the subject? How would I determine the right distance? It's been a long time since I read about guide numbers....and I don't recall anything about them. Since my camera is just 4mp (Oly E-10) I prefer to take head shots...sometimes a bit more. How do I calculate my setup? Inexpensive flash meter is on order as well as cable release....I am sure to have some questions when I get it. -- Thanks, Gene Palmiter (visit my photo gallery at http://palmiter.dotphoto.com) freebridge design group www.route611.com & Route 611 Magazine |
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Well....see...there is something I didn't know....I use a shooting tent for
products. So if you use just the one Brella....which one gets it? Fill I would guess. Maybe I can get a foam wig head to practice on... "Marc 182" wrote in message ... In article oTejd.1297$gS1.53@trndny04, says... I have shot people quite a bit using on-camera flash and slaves...but now I have a couple of cheap monos with umbrellas and could use some help learning to use them effectively. They have a half-power setting....will that automatically give me the 1:2 ratio I have read about if I set one on full and one on half and both are the same distance from the subject? How would I determine the right distance? It's been a long time since I read about guide numbers....and I don't recall anything about them. Since my camera is just 4mp (Oly E-10) I prefer to take head shots...sometimes a bit more. How do I calculate my setup? Inexpensive flash meter is on order as well as cable release....I am sure to have some questions when I get it. You need that flash meter before you can get it right. Anything you shoot well before that will be just experimentation and luck. Since you're digital, you have the advantage of shooting, checking, moving and adjusting lights, and shooting again. Put up something static, a big doll or stuffed teddy bear, and shoot that for a while. I'm hard pressed to imagine where you'd want to use both of those umbrellas at the same time. Maybe a product shot. Marc |
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Well....see...there is something I didn't know....I use a shooting tent for
products. So if you use just the one Brella....which one gets it? Fill I would guess. Maybe I can get a foam wig head to practice on... "Marc 182" wrote in message ... In article oTejd.1297$gS1.53@trndny04, says... I have shot people quite a bit using on-camera flash and slaves...but now I have a couple of cheap monos with umbrellas and could use some help learning to use them effectively. They have a half-power setting....will that automatically give me the 1:2 ratio I have read about if I set one on full and one on half and both are the same distance from the subject? How would I determine the right distance? It's been a long time since I read about guide numbers....and I don't recall anything about them. Since my camera is just 4mp (Oly E-10) I prefer to take head shots...sometimes a bit more. How do I calculate my setup? Inexpensive flash meter is on order as well as cable release....I am sure to have some questions when I get it. You need that flash meter before you can get it right. Anything you shoot well before that will be just experimentation and luck. Since you're digital, you have the advantage of shooting, checking, moving and adjusting lights, and shooting again. Put up something static, a big doll or stuffed teddy bear, and shoot that for a while. I'm hard pressed to imagine where you'd want to use both of those umbrellas at the same time. Maybe a product shot. Marc |
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"Gene Palmiter" writes:
I have shot people quite a bit using on-camera flash and slaves...but now I have a couple of cheap monos with umbrellas and could use some help learning to use them effectively. They have a half-power setting....will that automatically give me the 1:2 ratio I have read about if I set one on full and one on half and both are the same distance from the subject? How would I determine the right distance? It's been a long time since I read about guide numbers....and I don't recall anything about them. Since my camera is just 4mp (Oly E-10) I prefer to take head shots...sometimes a bit more. How do I calculate my setup? Inexpensive flash meter is on order as well as cable release....I am sure to have some questions when I get it. The "right" distance is as close as possible to get the coverage you need and not get in the way. The purpose of umbrellas, softboxes, etc. is to make "soft" light, that is, light that casts soft shadows. The measure of softness is the angular dimension of the light source when viewed from the subject position -- the bigger, the softer. So moving it closer makes it softer. At some point, it's getting in the way too much, and then it's too close. I haven't taken out my flash meter since I started shooting digital with multi-light setups. I guess if I wanted to actually measure the lighting ratio it'd still be more convenient, but mostly I just eyeball it or calculate it. Similarly, even more so, for guide numbers. -- David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ |
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