Thanks very much Joe. I also thought of trying this on digital cameras. I am
thinking of taping over the tiny flash in the digicam just enough so that I
am able to trigger another flash such as the T32 fitted with a wireless
optical foot.
Titoy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Gwinn" <joegwinn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] fill flash and burned-out faces (use a flashmeter)
> At 5:00 AM +0000 12/13/02, olympus-digest wrote:
> >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:39:12 +0800
> >From: "Clemente Colayco" <litefoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: [OM] fill flash and burned-out faces (use a flashmeter)
> >
> >How low a power must the small flash be to avoid messing up the exposure?
> >
> >Snip: I most often put a tiny manual flash on the camera, with the larger
> >real flashes distributed around the subject to taste. The pipsqueak
flash
> >on the camera triggers the real flashes when the picture is taken. The
lack
> >of wires is a real help, and flash triggers are cheaper than radio
triggers.
>
> It depends on the intent.
>
> The small flash can be used as a fill flash. In this case, it is pointed
directly at the subject and should put perhaps half or a quarter (one stop,
two stops) less light on the subject than the main flash. Some
experimentation is in order, to get the fill effect without the fill look,
or even the hated flash look.
>
> If the small flash is a trigger only, you want it to put three stops less
light on the subject than the main flash. Typically, I do this by pointing
the flash straight up, rather than at the subject. Then the small flash
just adds to the ambient in the room (if the room isn't too large).
Outdoors, or in a big room, you may do better pointing the small flash at
the subject but dialing the flashpower down. Anyway, the flash triggers on
my main flash units are sensitive enough that it's easy to arrange things so
the main flash dominates.
>
> Although I give specific rules above, I must say that getting this to work
isn't hard, and almost any reasonable setup will work. That's one reason I
like it.
>
> Joe
>
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