P3D Re: Stereo Flash Photography

[Greg Kane <pgwhacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I am about to start shooting a series of pictures indooors that will
>require flash.  The RBT X3 I now use has a built in flash that is able
>to provide fill-in for outside pictures and close pictures indoors, but
>is inadequet for pictures of things at any distance.  I have a very good
>separate flash gun that I will use and yet those I have taken already
>demonstrate to me that this flash gun mounted to my camera is
>insufficient to reach and adequately illuminate things at the distance
>of fifteen to twenty feet or beyond.  So I guess I must use slave flash
>units, but I know very little about them.  Is anyone aware where I might
>get some instruction on what I need to acquire and how to use them.
>

Larry,

   If your 2d, off camera, flash is one of those auto-exposure jobbies, 
what you're trying to do turns out to be pretty easy.  Just mount the 2d 
flash near the subject (out of the picture, of course) and blast away.  
The flash takes care of the exposure (set the speed slow and the RBT 
f-stop according to the flash instructions, as if the flash were at the 
camera.)  May not be a bad idea, exposure wise, to point the RBT flash 
up, if you can.  To accomplish this, I tape alluminum foil to my P & S 
twin rig flash.

   You'll get stereo-effect enhancing shadows if you set the 2d flash of 
to the side.

Cheers,

Greg Kane
Denver

Greg Kane


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