[Leica] Light and a continuation of the discussion

[dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)]

Paul,
Thanks for taking the time to make a recommendation.  Unfortunately, the
bride and groom wanted some color and that doesn't go much above 800 in
the film world with any quality. In color, even 3200 would bring 1/8 and
that is too dodgy for one time shots. Also, even 1/60 wouldn't work the
way these folks were dancing.

The next time I do one of these things I'll bring some large light boxes
and have them switched using a radio remote and different channels set
for different sides of the room.  That way I will get some of the
appearance of directional light and not the hard light of even a
diffused on camera flash.

No one is going to win any prizes for taking pictures in rooms like I
was just in, but you still have to come up with great images to remember
the good times and the occasion.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

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From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Paul
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:02 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Light and a continuation of the discussion

Are you shooting colour or B&W? I'm afraid I don't use colour (or not 
regularly enough to pontificate about it anyway) but I'll proffer some 
B&W advice.

And the advice is... TMZ. A great film which I've used at ISO 12,800 
quite happily. There's always light from somewhere and using it, rather 
than banks of flash, is much better, at least for me.

1/2 second at 1,4 with 800? Make that 1/60 with 12,800.

P.

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Paul Hardy Carter
www.paulhardycarter.com
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On 2 Nov 2004, at 03:44, Don Dory wrote:

> You know, 1/2 second at
> F1.4 at 800ISO.  The only light was what I brought and bouncing off
the
> dark wood wasn't really practical.

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