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Forum: Photographic Technique
12-07-2009, 06:45 PM
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Good idea.
I printed your post/ technique and it's posted on my monitor with a nice, yellow "Post-It", ready for trial later this week. :)
Thanks a bunch!
JP
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Forum: Photographic Technique
12-07-2009, 01:06 PM
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Thanks Flyer.
So I take it you are in accord with the above described solution?
If that puny little buil-in flash is going to work, I won't have to invest in an expensive cobra flash then.
Cheers.
JP
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Forum: Photographic Technique
12-07-2009, 01:04 PM
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That is a great explanation of your technique, thank you!
By the time I am all set, the subject will have fallen asleep or passed out from too much X-Mas drinks!:lol:
Seriously though: this really looks like a great way to obtain what I am looking for: Bokeh and a well-lit subject.
Again, thanks!
JP
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Forum: Photographic Technique
12-07-2009, 12:56 PM
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Thanks!
Just got a built-in flash diffuser actually: Gary Fong type. In truth, I haven't even tried it seriously yet, but will.
Thanks for the reminder too. Using the 50mm at f1.4, or the 85mm at f1.4 should yield interesting results with flash and trying to keep the Bokeh.
JP
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Forum: Photographic Technique
12-07-2009, 12:53 PM
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Hi Kevin.
I never really thought of this second curtain (trailing?).
I guess I will have to experiment like crazy before Christmas!
Thanks for the reply.
JP
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Forum: Photographic Technique
12-07-2009, 12:51 PM
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Yes it can.
Will that do the trick?
JP
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Forum: Photographic Technique
12-06-2009, 07:47 PM
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There it goes:
I am absolutely not used to do photography with flash, not even with the buil-in flash on the K20D and the K7. Latest attempts are, to say the least, very "ordinary".
Christmas is coming and I am "expected" to take pics of family ... children, etc ...:hmm:
So my query(ies) (s) is(are):
I would like to have great Bokeh, using either my DA*16-50, the FA 50/1.4 and or the Zeiss 85/1.4. I know all of those lenses are able to produce interesting Bokeh.
Problem is: I will often need to use the built-in flash on the K20D/K7 and I want to be able to retain the Bokeh ... let's say from the X-Mas tree lights in the background, while doing a portrait/close-up portrait shot(s).
Is there a specific technique and setting which anyone would suggest to acieve that sort of image?
In order to have Bokeh, I need to use the lens wide open too, which complicates my "problem".
Any help would be tremendously appreciated.
P.S.: I just acquired a "built-in flash diffuser" and that helps a great lot in diminishing the flash harshness.
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