hexar af photos inddors (reala, and kodak 200)

[ampguy]

These are Reala, shot at ISO 50, some with flash:

reala

and here are some Kodak 200 photos, shot at ISO 100, some with flash:

Kodak 200

Feedback is appreciated. Which ones are your favorites?

 

[charjohncarter]

I like both sets. These are controlled shots so you can manually expose for the background ambient light and the use your flash on Auto with a corresponding F stop (ambient light setting). This will fill the background (from the manual ambient light setting). But if you were looking for this kind of shot great. Maybe the Hexar isn't manual, I wouldn't know. But what I do know is that to really control flash you need a manual camera. It is slow but you get what you want.

 

[charjohncarter]

Here is what I mean. I set the camera to ambient light, and then put a remote radio controlled flash in the bathroom on auto. I set the camera (BessaR) f stop at the indicated auto f stop (but with corresponding ambient light shutter speed):

 

[ampguy]

Thanks John, I did want the faces with enough fill, but wanted the messy background OOF or darkened, so I did make use of a 2nd light - the reading light.

The Hexar AF has a couple of flash modes, one is the old Konica Flashmatic mode, the other is kind of where the rear curtain doesn't close until it's determined the film got enough light, which pretty much relegates it to tripod, and still subject shots.

I did get good exposures on the faces, and dark backgrounds on several, but others were just composed odd and got a lot of room mess, or underexposed (the cat), or with the kodak film, completley wrong color with the dining room lighting (photos are yellow/orange, but light was soft white).

So I like the dark reading ones best technically. but may try to experiment more with flash and the tripod since I have some slow speed film around.