At 10:27 4/3/02, you wrote:
Well, as promised here are the photos from the other day. They are the
last 12 in the right hand column. You can click on the images when they
appear in the left hand window to see a larger version in a new window.
http://www.nothingrhymeswithorange.com/gries/Asides/ols.htm
Well done! I presume you were working hand held for nearly all of them?
A few personal observations:
There was a little ghosting of moving figures because the shutter speed
was so slow to bring up the background (usually 1/8 or 1/4). This isn't
necessarily bad, but maybe someone has some suggestions?
I didn't find this objectionable in the web images.
The 35 shift has again proven its weight in gold. Everyone NEEDS to
have one of these lenses!! Seriously.
YES! A shift lens can work magic inside places like this with all the
strong architectural lines. Even if it's people shots, the strong lines in
the background must also be considered when composing photographs.
Most of the long shots were done w/ the 135/2.8 at about 50 feet at full
aperture. I wish I could have used the 200/4 for some, but I would need
to get faster film, or a more powerful flash. Has anyone used the zoom
extender for the T32? Does it give you much more power in the long
shots?
This is the reason I built a dual flash bar to use a pair of T-32's on my
flash bracket for shooting my cousin's wedding. It requires a *lot* of
light to fill spaces this large and work at longer distances than one would
normally do at home.
I will fabricate a diffuser for the T32 from some vellum for the 21mm
shots. Even at close distances with half power, it was so strong that
my f-stop darkened the background too much. True, I could have used
longer shutter speeds, but 1/4 second was almost too long!
The only problem I saw with a couple of them was great variation in
distance among some of the "groupings" of people in which you used the
flash. Since the light from it falls off at the "inverse square" of the
distance, it doesn't take that much difference between the closest and
farthest persons to wash out the closest and have the farthest noticeably
underexposed. The solutions are available light, avoiding these situations
entirely [usually not possible], additional lights on slaves, or mostly
bounce to scatter light everywhere with a small percentage of direct fill
lighting [90/10 or 85/15 ???; very difficult to do in cavernous spaces]. A
diffuser such as the 21mm WA panel for the T-32 helps some, usually not
completely, but better than zero diffusion; it also costs you about one
f-stop too.
Bottom Line:
Feel good about them!
-- John
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