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Re: Flash for stacking?

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Macro_Cosmos wrote:
Tue Jan 03, 2023 4:21 pm
Many programs can equalise the variation, Lightroom has it.
One niggle: this is only true when shooting with a single flash. When multiple flash units are in play, variations in power of each unit result in changing the pattern of illumination, in addition to its overall brightness. Programs may equalize the overall brightness, but the variations in pattern remain. This is particularly obvious, for example, when one flash is illuminating the background while another one or two are doing the subject. Probably not relevant for what Oldbear67 is doing.

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Re: Flash for stacking?

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rjlittlefield wrote:
Tue Jan 03, 2023 4:54 pm
Macro_Cosmos wrote:
Tue Jan 03, 2023 4:21 pm
Many programs can equalise the variation, Lightroom has it.
One niggle: this is only true when shooting with a single flash. When multiple flash units are in play, variations in power of each unit result in changing the pattern of illumination, in addition to its overall brightness. Programs may equalize the overall brightness, but the variations in pattern remain. This is particularly obvious, for example, when one flash is illuminating the background while another one or two are doing the subject. Probably not relevant for what Oldbear67 is doing.

--Rik
Thanks, I did not think about that at all. This must be a nightmare to "fix". I am at the point of trying to modify my lamphouse to allow a flash with LED so I was thinking strictly in terms of one unit.

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