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> From: luiz felipe <[email protected]> > Date: May 31, 2012 4:09:36 PM PDT > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Flash Meter experiment > Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > > > > will check the pics later, underage sidekick is near. :-) These pictures are just of the flash meter and a grey card. > > > From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> > Date: May 31, 2012 4:31:57 PM PDT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Flash Meter experiment > Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > > According to this article, you've got it about right. But there's no > point to using the gray card there, just hold the meter near the part > of the image that will be the brightest (or most sensitive to Heh! I was using the grey card in those photos as a color reference for lightroom. Shooting two birds in one frame, as it were. > overexposure, like facial skin), with the dome pointing back at the > camera lens (one general method) and fire your strobe(s). The meter is > supposed to flip up and stick at the required f-stop. You can > translate to different f-stops using the scale on the dial. > > http://photo.net/photography-lighting-equipment-techniques-forum/009RaY > > Another way to use it is to measure the light from each individual > strobe. To do that you'll need to make a tiny snoot from black paper > that fits the white dome. (Think of it as a reverse flash.) Holding > the meter near your subject, point the snoot at each light and fire it > (or them all) to measure its contribution. > > > From: John Francis <[email protected]> > Date: May 31, 2012 5:02:19 PM PDT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Flash Meter experiment > Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > > Larry wrote: >> >> I did some art nudes with a friend last night using my studio flash >> gear. As an experiment, I pulled out the flash meter and when I'd get >> my lighting dialed in, I'd take a picture of the flash meter and a grey card. > > I know that you've got an FA77Ltd - why are you shooting at 50mm? > I'd expect the longer focal length to be better suited to this work, > and presumably you've got enough space to step a bit further away. They were shot in my living room, and to get the lights where I wanted, I didn't have any more room. Unfortunately, my living room is long, but narrow. It was chilly enough she didn't want to do nude photos outdoors last night. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
