Tuesday, 1 February 2011

 

This shot taken obviously with the flash! This highlights one of the technical problems of flash photography with a fixed flash on the camera... the reflection shines right back into the lens! One way to avoid this is to have a slave flash unit off to one side and minimise the direct reflections. The next time it snows I'll try to take a shot to show you what I mean. I have effectively triggered a slave flash unit from my built-in flash by covering the flash with red,green and blue primary filter gels together (it makes a very dark red) which cuts 99% of the visible light from the flash, so that it does not affect your shot but the infra-red component is very visible to the slave unit which triggers directly! This way you can "side-light" your subjects and avoid red-eye and the flat pancake over-exposed white skin FLAAAASH portraits.

Jeremusic
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