Hi,
I've only got limited experience of candle-lit photography, but I can
tell you the results do come out very red. Possibly too red for your
liking but possibly just right - I think you'd have to see the results
to judge. Shadow from just one candle could be unpleasant but if you've
got a few around the place it should look OK. If you use the flash for
fill-in, though, I'd put something red over it - should keep the warm
effect going.
Hope that helps,
Roger
Sam Shiell wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Looking (again) for a bit of advice.
>
> I'm planning to take some shots of my wife by candle light... the candles
> will be in the picture and I want it to be "warm and moody" with a little
> bit of background (but not much!) .
>
> What would be the best approach to expose for this? Ideally I'd like all the
> light to come from the candles but this might cause some unpleasant shadows.
> I have a brolly that I can use with my T32 and also a flash meter so I can
> provide some fill-in, but don't want this to kill the effect.
>
> Also, as I said I want it to be warm, but with daylight film is it likely to
> end up being too red?
>
> In the event of them coming out any good I'd put them on the web for
> comments, but I don't have a scanner.
>
> Sam
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