In article <5bednb$63m@access1.digex.net>, arjohn@access1.digex.net says...
>In article <5b4h6u$jls@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>,
>Bob Neuman wrote:

>>Um, nothing, and nowhere - at least during the ceremony...
>>Flash is usually acceptable during the processional and recessional
>>(and an on-camera [or on-bracket, if you can stand those dark shadows
>>under chins...;-]

> Huh? I hope you're joking . . . since when does a flash bracket
>used with a professional grade flash (120-J, Quantum Q-Flash) give you
>dark shadows under the chin? I know the poster was asking about his 285,
>but if you're gonna start talkin' brackets, why go halfway? Even with a
>fresnel lens flash (285, 622, etc) shadows are really minimal with a
>bracket. Unless you like red-eye :-)

Hmmm, flash is flash, whether "diffused", spread by a Fresnel lens, or
whatever - and the qualities of the image made with it are controlled
by the source size, position of the source relative to the lens, the
distance from the subject (and background), and the nearness (relevance)
of reflecting surfaces... Placing a light further from the lens increases
the size of shadows (the reverse is the shadowless ringlight...), causing
what I call, "the famous flash-bracket-induced wrought-iron chin braces"
so evident in sample photos printed in flash-bracket ads...;-). And, BTW,
I very rarely see red-eye with my camera-mounted SB-24's... A bracket
(if it does not raise the flash TOO high above the lens ;-) may be useful
for switching from H to V orientation while keeping the light above the
lens, though there are other, simpler, solutions that often work as well.
When thinking about flash, it is often useful to imagine the subject
illuminated by a bare electric light bulb - the look is similarly as
unpleasant as flash, and as difficult to really improve by moving the
bulb around a bit...
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