PanoTools:
RE: Almost my first D70/Sigma 8mm panoramas
Peter Sale 2005-Mar-07 09:02:57
The flash, an SB-800 set at 1/2 power, was attached to the hot shoe on my
D70, full wide angle, and pointed straight ahead and a bit up, towards the
ceiling. A sample image can be viewed at www.petersale.com/temp_stuff/1.jpg
.
I suspect flash would not work well in a room filled with items that would
cast shadows or even in a larger room because as you might know, only the
"subject" that is a specific distance from the flash, say ten feet, is
correctly exposed. Everything closer then 10 feet would be a bit over
exposed and everything more than ten feet would be a bit under exposed.
I'm experimenting with shooting interiors very early in the morning, say
6:30 or 7:00 am or late in the afternoon, say, 4 or 4:30 pm, so that the
dynamic range between the interior and the exterior, as seen through the
windows, is not so great. The problematic alternative involves shooting
multiple exposures of the same scene and blending them together to get
greater dynamic range. I have not had a lot of luck with that technique so
far.
Regards/Peter
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Flemming replied:
Except for some problems at zenith [and perhaps you could do with a
little more light in the kicthen] I think your pano looks good Didn't
think it would be possible for the flash to spread the light enough.
In which direction did you fire the flash?
Do you have an unretouched copy of the shoot, so I can see how the
light spreads?
How do you think the flash would work in a not so white room and/or
with more objects around the room at "eye" height [casting shadows]?
Best regards
Flemming
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> Peter Sale wrote:
> Yes, I know I'm not supposed to use a flash but I wanted to capture
> the extended dynamic range of both the "dark" interior of my living
> room and the "bright" exterior view through the windows without
> attempting to merge multiple exposures. Put differently, I did not
> want to deal with more than four images.
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