Friday, February 6, 2009

Strobist Exercise 102-2-1 (Single Fruit- Flash Diffusers)

Varying only light/modifiers. Angle of light/camera position the same. Nikon SB-800 Flash on manual, starting with best guess exposure (differed from Minolta IV-F by half stop, with Minolta tending to underexpose by 1/2 stop). Flash angle at 50mm, Camera at ~50mm (35mm equivalent).






Light Modifer of SB-800 built-in Plastic diffuser, which set flash angle to 17 mm. Needs 1 2/3 more exposure. Note slight softening of shadows.








Light Modif
er of SB-800 add-on Plastic diffuser, flash angle 50 mm. Again needs 1 2/3 more exposure. (May need more, if angles are much less than 50mm.) Note more softening of shadows.








Lumiquest Modifer, flash angle 50 mm. Again needs 1 2/3 more exposure. (May need more, if angles are much less than 50mm.) Note even more softening of shadows, as lumiquest modifier is larger light source than those above.






Completely opaque white add-on modifier
, flash angle 50 mm. Needs 3-4 stops of more exposure. Note even more softening of shadows, as diffusion is greater, due to opaqueness of modifier.

Next Post: Outside Flash for Flowers, using Various Modifiers



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