Now, I'm a bit confused here. I've taken some pictures of a friend by
candle light, using the "auto" setting on my OM2n. She's a tall woman and
was standing by 2 candles, the flames of which were in the vicinity of her
midriff. Used various apertures and the exposures were ranging from about
5 to 40 seconds. ALL of them came out hopelessly underexposed..
practically nothing at all on the neg. I did of course expect the
negatives to be a bit thin, but this is ridiculous. Has anyone
successfully done these sort of photos that can give me any hints?
I haven't done much in this area. The source for the following is pretty
good, though. I take these figures from a book on low-light techniques by
Lee Frost. For what it's worth, I've found this guy's published exposure
tables (guidelines) to be useful.
Using 400 ASA film, the suggested exposure is 1/4s @ f/16. I'd suppose you
could double or even quadruple that with no problem for your bracket. For
example, Frost shows a picture of his son blowing out a candle shot at
f/1.8 for 1/30s using 1600 film.
Variables: strength of light source, subject distance from that source,
properties of the film, etc.
(ps I've just realised that I haven't bought any Oly gear for over a year
now.... am I likely to get thrown out of the club?)
Same here, though I've been threatening to send one of my bodies into John
for checkup . . . if that counts.
Tris
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