Comments on: Flash Fingers

By: Geo

Geo — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:29:38 +0000

Hi David, recently I take some pict with my Alien Bee 800 and 400. I don’t know why the picture was out of focus and with a lot of noise. So, I was used Iso 100, my camera was set up in the tripod, I used cable relase, and the aperture was 22 and speed 250, this was the reading of my light meter (Sekonic L -558R). let me know how can I send the picture for evaluate it if you need.
Thank in advance.
Geo.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:06:13 +0000

Hello David!
Thank you for adding Q&A to your photo tips! What a great idea!

I have a photo that looks great on my laptop and on the LCD screen, but when I printed it, everything was blurry. I tried several different professional printers, but I just can’t get the people in focus. The picture is of my brother-in-law’s wedding and its one of the only ones taken of the bride and groom before it started pouring. So it is an important shot for me to get right. I had to Shop out part of a no parking sign on a column behind the groom. Could that be what is distorting the rest of the image?

Thank you!

Sincerely,
Stephanie

By: Feathers Mk 2

Feathers Mk 2 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:54:39 +0000

G’day Dave. I’ve never had a problem with my P & S camera along these lines, but when using “fill-flash” for close-ups, I do cover part of the flash lens with a finger to reduce the amount of fill as required to get the light level I want.

The major advantage of digital photography is that many photos can be taken just ‘playing around’, to get the feel of the camera, and an idea of just what it is capable of.

By: Vivek

Vivek — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:45:30 +0000

Hi David,

How effective is Expodisc, will it make a drastic difference in photographs. Next when ever I shoot the preview in LCD looks amaizing that’s due to the size and looks great, but when I get it to my laptop it looks not so good and sometimes blurry any suggestions.

Regards,
Vivek

By: David Peterson

David Peterson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:59:31 +0000

Hi Melanie,

Yes, photographing people with different skin colors can be a problem. Can you email me your photo and I’ll take a look and see if I can explain it further in a future tip.

David.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:38:27 +0000

I’ve had a recent problem… I wanted to take a picture of two of my friends in the late evening, using my flash but no matter how many times i tried, turning the head of the flash side ways, frontal and so on… I could never get them both equally on the picture. Notice that one friend has an extremely dark complexion and the other one is really pale.. So the last one was over exposed to the light of the flash and the other one was left in the dark…

How can I solve this problem for I am clueless

Thanks

Melanie