Danielle in the park, from the old Kodak Six-20
Having patched up the old Kodak’s bellows with gaffer tape, I finally got a roll of film back that wasn’t horrifically marred by light leakage. They went ahead and developed the film and made singles for me, but didn’t do the scans I’d requested from the lab, because the images weren’t exactly top notch, owing to my lack of a light meter at the time.
A shot in front of the pond. Lit by an SB-25 in a shoot-through umbrella to camera left, and a bare gelled SB-26 to camera right, for hairlight
Got a light meter recently, and I must say, incident metering is absolutely, immensely awesome. I can now just stick the meter right up in someone’s face and get a perfect exposure straight-off: no chimping or guessing. And as an added bonus, it even tells you how much of the exposure is made up by flash and ambient. So, new meter in hand, I took a trip out to the recently opened Robinson Preserve, to give it a little test run, and have fun in the park, of course.