Cheers for ideas, folks.Nice shots Adam. Am impressed at how little distortion you have. Looks like some vignetting though, especially on the Tyler shot. Is there a way to reduce that? Would better lighting help?
CragX is limestone and limestone lit by flash often looks pretty horrid. Experimenting, I shot Ted in the light from my head-torch, a Petzl Ultra. The beam on the Ultra is bright and narrow. Fall-off is rapid therefore, hence I metered in spot mode but dialled in a slight compensation. I pushed the ISO to 1250 - way higher than I’d normally use - in order to get a half decent shutter speed to freeze the action. A low camera angle accentuated the height of CragX whilst the CragX ladder provided a bit of back-ground interest.
Aye, but its a good one
Quote from: slack---line on March 03, 2010, 04:24:07 pmAye, but its a good oneI'll be honest, i dont rate that as a great example of off camers lighting, and certainly not one of keith's best. It's got a lot of the aspects i'd usually aim to avoid in that situation: hotspot of light, overly white light, flat-on angle gives you no clues to the shape and obliterates texture, and leaves the climbers face in deep shaddow. This probably illustrates the limitations of using led headtorches more than owt else.On a more positive note, no lightstand in shot.
(if you see me at the tor with far too much gear please don't take the piss too much).
Quote from: Paul B on March 03, 2010, 05:23:01 pm(if you see me at the tor with far too much gear please don't take the piss too much).
Quote from: dave on March 03, 2010, 04:49:05 pmQuote from: slack---line on March 03, 2010, 04:24:07 pmAye, but its a good oneI'll be honest, i dont rate that as a great example of off camers lighting, and certainly not one of keith's best. It's got a lot of the aspects i'd usually aim to avoid in that situation: hotspot of light, overly white light, flat-on angle gives you no clues to the shape and obliterates texture, and leaves the climbers face in deep shaddow. This probably illustrates the limitations of using led headtorches more than owt else.On a more positive note, no lightstand in shot.why if you wanted that effect couldn't you just use a flash and a snoot/grid of some type? Seems odd to go down the head torch route.I'm quite psyched to try and get some lime shots using some of my strobist stuff, I think things like powerband with its obvious curve might lend itself to some playing (if you see me at the tor with far too much gear please don't take the piss too much).
Is this the future? Will we be sat in pubs with robots making inane interjections whilst we all blank them? Progress is all well and good but sometimes I think its gone too far.