Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Lighting => Topic started by: camera109 on January 19, 2017, 12:22:30 pm
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Hi Everyone,
I am travelling to India with a Mamiya 6 film camera and I'm going to be photographing some smaller historic buildings (all exterior shots). Mostly they will be houses set in small garden spaces. I wanted to ask if anyone has used flash to give just a "kiss of light" to part of the subject area if the ambient light is rather flat or the area of interest is in shade. I'll be travelling light with just a canon 580EX flash and maybe a couple of pocket wizards for remote triggering, a small light stand and maybe one of those push on mini soft boxes. As I'm using film, I'll be using a sekonic L-558 light meter to measure the flash at the place where I want to direct it. I've seen some examples of flash used in this way on real estate photography sites of - lots of it fairly cheesy it has to be said - and I wondered if anyone might have some tips for a subtler approach? Thanks
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I have actually begun using these a lot. They are small and light, what you see is what you get, and you can tune them to daylight or tungsten. It comes with a slide in gel.
https://www.manfrotto.us/nbsp-6ae5ed
It's the micropro2 led light.
Seeing the effect of the light and being able to adjust. I use these for a lot of architectural light painting too. Also great for portraits!
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A little light kissing never hurt anyone. :-)