Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: a lunatic flash technique... try it.
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 20:20:17 -0400

on 6/8/01 7:39 PM, Eric at ericm@pobox.com wrote:

> Firing the flash
> backwards seems to do a better job of providing even illumination over more
> than just the subject.  Makes sense now that I stop to think about it.
> Instead of a subject at 3 ft away and a background at 8 ft away, the light
> is traveling about 15 ft + 3 and 15 ft + 8.  Instead of a 7:1 difference,
> it's a 1.6:1 difference.


also instead of a tiny point light source you have a massive source ie the
wall. that's the biggest difference.

- -- 
John Brownlow

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com

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