Re: [Leica] Re: Complimentary flash filter

["Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>]

I've never experimented with this technique, but I think that filtering the
falsh can also be a means of making the firing of the flash itself less
obtrusive to the subjects. I seem to remember a friend who shot IR film with
a heavily filterred falsh and it was difficult to tell when the flash had
fired.

Bryan
- -----Original Message-----
From: George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, December 13, 1998 4:52 AM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Complimentary flash filter


>At 12:09 AM 13/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>I can't speak for the photog you mentioned, but I have noticed a
>>substantial difference when photographing people in B&W under artificial
>>light that has been gelled one way or the other. Warm light tends to
>>portray skin tones better, cold light tends to enhance skin problems.
>>This can be used for effect when you test it all and understand what's
>>going on. I have never fully explored the concept, but I do know that the
>>color of the light on the subject as well as the color that ultimately
>>reaches the film has a great impact on the final B&W print.
>>
>>charles
>>
>Thank you Charles.  I think this may be the reason why the photog in
>question was using this technique to photograph people (mainly Caucasians)
>indoors in B&W, mainly under fluorescent lights.  It would be difficult to
>convince me that the technique in question can give results which are
>preferable to those obtained by conventional lighting techniques.  If
>anyone has more information great, but otherwise there's no use in further
>pursuing this topic, which is only marginally on topic.
>
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