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Subject: [Leica] Another M9 question - Flash on the Shadow Side
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:26:36 -0500
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Beautiful examples of "natural" light Alan ;~)

I love your approach to photographic problem solving:
simple and economical.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
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On Oct 6, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Oct 2010  George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Couldn't agree more. Use the tools required to achieve the intended 
>> purpose and required quality. To do less would be unprofessional. Strobe 
>> "on the camera" will almost never work, except as "fill," to achieve 
>> anything approaching a >"natural" look. 
> =====================================================================================================================================================================================
> Related to this, I finally got a Safe-Synch so I can use one of my custom 
> "wink flashes" with Canon DSLRs.  These are cheap Morris manual flashes 
> that I de-powered by putting in a weaker capacitor, thus filling in under 
> office or other room lighting without overpowering it:
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/WinkFlash1_AMR.jpg.html>
> 
> I've used these for years with my M's:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/WinkFlashGrad_MR.jpg.html>
> 
> and now can fill in with the Canon 5D MkII: 
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/Authors_WinkFlash_MR8351.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/Kennan_WinkFlash_MR9521.jpg.html>
> 
> For these two, I taped an 85B filter over the flash to match the existing 
> lights.
> 
> Alan
> 
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> UPAA POY 1978
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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> 
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