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Old 06-25-2008   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: LIGHTING FOR MACRO

Hi Jacco, Thanks for you reply.
It is rather a very simple lay out, the light tent was kept on a table, the two flashes were kept on either side about 2-3 inches from the light tent. The flashes were set on slave mode, one of the flashes I could set the zoom, aperture and power, and the other zoom, and power, I set the power to 1/1 in both flashes, as I was using an aperture of 16, I set the same aperture on the flash with aperture controls.
Since the flashes were close to the light tent, that is close to the subject I set the zoom to the widest setting on both the flashes.
Now I switched on the K10D, flipped open the built in flash, took the shot, and the buit in flash triggered the other two flashes, I dialled down the built in flash to exposure compensation -2 Stops,
Result was very badly exposed photos, some were jet black.
Am not sure how to go about it.
Please let me know if you have any techniques.
Thanks,
Kris
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