How ? Hi Everyone , Just wondering how the photographer managed to get the couple so well lit with on board flash . The couple is perfectly lit but background is dark ... Its a...

Lukabulla

Hi Everyone ,
Just wondering how the photographer managed to get the couple so well lit with on board flash .
The couple is perfectly lit but background is dark ... Its a dancehall so would have been bright ambient light .

Spot metering ?
In my experience flash usually dont like spot metering .

cheers

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tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

Looks like the light source was overhead..

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

Ambient lighting on dance floors can be rather low. Using a camera with a 1/250 sec flash sync, one can easily get such a shot.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

My WAG is there was a lot of space behind the dancers. The flash went off exposing the dancers correctly and then bounced back to shut off. There was simply not a powerful enough light to expose farther away.

Dennis

Lukabulla

Thanks , what about the metering ? spot ?

Haenzel Loc: South Holland, The Netherlands

dennis2146 wrote:

My WAG is there was a lot of space behind the dancers. The flash went off exposing the dancers correctly and then bounced back to shut off. There was simply not a powerful enough light to expose farther away.

Dennis

Grahame Loc: Fiji

Interesting that the harsh shadow behind/under the females upper right arm gives the clue to flash location but that does not tie up with the difference in lighting of her lower legs.

Two sources of light?

Grahame Loc: Fiji

Lukabulla wrote:

Thanks , what about the metering ? spot ?

The photographer could have manually set exposure to achieve a dark background and controlled/adjusted flash power accordingly to get what he wanted.

User ID

Lukabulla wrote:

Hi Everyone ,
Just wondering how the photographer managed to get the couple so well lit with on board flash .
The couple is perfectly lit but background is dark ... Its a dancehall so would have been bright ambient light .

Spot metering ?
In my experience flash usually dont like spot metering .

cheers

Youre thinking too much. Its a very ordinary unaugmented direct single flash shot. If might be down and dirty "semi pro" rig such as a small diffuser on a tall-ish bracket. Theres no evidence of any real concern for ambient light.

Its a typical result for a simple crude but effective approach to events, where the audience is the participants, and NOT photography geeks.

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I always delivered better results than that but I do not understand your questions. They dont seem to apply to real work.

Heres the principle: Bounce light for the environs and fill for forground. If theres one "magic bullet", that would be POWER. You can NEVVVUH bring too much power.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Lukabulla wrote:

Thanks , what about the metering ? spot ?

Most likely the flash was on auto. A slower shutter speed, which doesn't affect the flash exposure, could be used to get more ambient exposure in the background.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Lukabulla wrote:

Hi Everyone ,
Just wondering how the photographer managed to get the couple so well lit with on board flash .
The couple is perfectly lit but background is dark ... Its a dancehall so would have been bright ambient light .

Spot metering ?
In my experience flash usually dont like spot metering .

cheers

It looks like something I would have photographed with an on-camera flash bounced off a white ceiling.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

User ID wrote:

...Heres the principle: Bounce light for the environs and fill for forground. If theres one "magic bullet", that would be POWER. You can NEVVVUH bring too much power.

I liked to use a Norman 400B with a swivel/tilt holder. It was full manual, but with raw digital, you could get pretty good at estimating exposure after a frame or two. In a pinch, I used two Vivitar 285s. One was on auto and direct from the camera, while one was remotely triggered and bounced off the ceiling from a stand.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

It's an underexposed image, shot with an on-camer Speedlight? The dark background is simply the effect of the inverse square law. I don't think the ambit light kicked in the short flash duration froze the action.

Lukabulla

Here is another by same photographer ..
Not the person about 3 feet away from the dancer has not caught the flash ..

Deffinately a special technique ... cant work out what though ..
Can anyone extract the meta data ? i tried but camera settings not mentioned

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