Maybe we don' need no steenkin' flashes. Last year I took some pictures
of my daughter's children and it was necessarily in bright sun... and
they were wearing white. The fill flash was a little too hot, burned
some highlights, darkened the background and made things a mess for me
to correct. As I mentioned not long ago, this year I decided to try
without fill flash and make up the difference in PhotoShop. Here's what
I've got so far.
<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Alex%20&%20Caitlin%20-%20August%202009/>
This year was some better light. It was late morning with a bit of haze
in the sky. I managed to put them in dappled shade but dappling always
bothers me. Anyhow, as you can see from above it was very easy to apply
a little exposure adjustment, a little shadow fill, a little highlight
recovery, and a bit of "clarity". What's missing for sure is the flash
catch lights. I'm not sure what if anything I'll do from here but it's
certainly possible I think to do without the flash and make do with
post-processing. Even the shot on the tire in full sun doesn't look too
bad.
Dr. No Flash
Daniel Sepke wrote:
> At the risk of incurring the wrath of Dr Flash ( J ) I have a question
> regarding the FL50r in FP mode and use with a softbox. First some background
> as to why I want to know this.
>
>
>
> I am about to enter my portraits season and specifically need the FP mode of
> the FL50 or FL50r to get the aperture I want to use (outdoor shade in the
> late afternoon with f2 or f2.8). My testing with my FL50 on camera got my
> intended DOF results but the fill light was a bit flat, even with a
> Stroboframe to lift it higher but it still on axis. Typically I have use
> fill off to one side for some modeling on facial features. In the past for
> this type of shots I have worked in full manual with a Qflash on a softbox
> and handheld metering/chimping. But this has always resulted in having to
> work stopped down a bit more than my artistic side would like to bring the
> shutter speed under the sync limits for conventional flash.
>
>
>
> So the question is does anyone here have experience with using an FL50r with
> a softbox (or possibly a bounce card) off camera in FP mode? The follow on
> question would be regarding triggering reliability with the E-3's built in
> flash versus a second FL50r in the hotshoe as trigger (I wish that the Radio
> Poppers TTL model supported Olympus). If you have used a softbox what
> considerations regarding line of sight for the triggering should I look out
> for?
>
>
>
> TIA, Dan S.
>
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