1/25/02 9:46:42 PM, Steve Goss <steveg3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I had a similar thing happen these last two Sundays. I was using a T32 pointing
>up, bouncing off a piece of white foamcore board leaning 45 degrees to the
>front. Some of the rooms had the usual white drop ceiling you find in
>commercial buildings, but three of the rooms did not. Instead, those three had
>walls up to the exposed roof beams, and the entire ceiling painted flat black.
>In the normal rooms, the pictures were exposed properly, the people are part of
>the room. In the ones with the black ceiling, the people are over exposed, and
>the rest is way too dark. So, I think your problem was the lack of a close
>ceiling. How to compensate for the loss of the ceiling? I'd like to know too.
in this case last wkend, there was no bounce, just straight diffuser. last time
i did bounce, i determined light
loss from the beamed ceiling to be 3 stops, so had to use 400 speed film, and
shoot 5.6 (not much DOF
needed) with large flash dumps.
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