What bemused you today?

[nickt]

To me, it looks like he's throwing light back into the shadows/faces. Should he therefore be further to the right and have a bigger reflector?

But there is no extra light in the faces......

Reflectors work like stationary tennis rackets.  Light comes in, hits them and bounces off at the opposite angle it came in at.  They also throw back (far) less than 100% of the light that hits them.

The reflector is pretty much perpendicular to the light (you can see the sun pretty clearly from the shadows) which means it will skip off and vanish to picture right.  And there really won't be much of it.  Considerably less light will be hitting it than the back of the "groom's" head and only a portion will get reflected in the wrong direction.  If it were working, you'd see a shimmery light on their faces.

There's a theory on Twitter that this is part of an article about bouncing a flash into a reflector which is something I've done many times but.....

1. There's no flash or trigger on either of the cameras
2. You can roughly see where it would throw the light from the reflector shadow (caused by the BTS guy's on camera flash).  That's mainly into the pillar (this could vary a bit depending on striking angle.  But not enough )

It's a nicely set up shot that some muppet has put a guy in an ugly shirt with a reflector in.  It annoys me that this will be used to teach people about "using a reflector to add catchlights" when that's total nonsense.

So if he was further to the right, would there not be some fill light reflected back to the bride and groom? Looking at the shadow of the B&G, the sun is to the left and would bounce back to them if he was further to the right.

[hevans]

It leads with a lovely image advertising their tutorials for aspiring wedding pros.

For the life of me I can't figure out what the reflector is doing.  I must need one of their courses.

I'm wondering just how much of the B&G can be seen from the camera. Looks like they might need a smidge of gravitational lensing from the stone pillar to be seen by the camera.

H.

[Oldboy]

Recession! What recession! 

In Birmingham today and noticed the Jessops's shop has been refitted inside and out. 

Frontage.


Inside.


Click image for bigger size. 

[Beaux Reflets]

It does not look very busy OB 

[Oldboy]

No, it appears there where more staff than customers, but it was taken at 11:00am today, after the bank holidays. 

[ABERS]

Hope they've had the staffs' brains refitted!

[Simple]

The staff at Jessops has brains??

[Beaux Reflets]

They probably do  Lots of companies and organisations cannot be Rsed to train their staff properly 

[ABERS]

Reading the news on the BBC website I was more amused that bemused.
The juxtaposition of two headlines.

UK Woman Beheaded in Tenerife.        Hacking Payout For Sienna Miller. 

[skellum]

Why do salespeople  " Just happen to be in the area "

[Beaux Reflets]

Because they are stalking vunerable holders of the purse strings   

[Hinfrance]

Sort of a local news event - the fact that Nicolas Sarkozy still hasn't made any comment about the arrest of Dominic Strauss-Kahn in New York. Probably still hasn't stopped running around the Elysêe Palace doing cartwheels and laughing his head off, pausing only to shout 'get in!' at various intervals.

[krennon]

Advertising various room attendant positions across the country at the moment from Birmingham to Plymouth and across Surrey and Sussex as well...had LOADS of CV's come in and at least the last 8 I have looked at, people have listed photography as either one of their interests or one of their "qualifications" and a couple claim they do photography in their spare time to earn some extra money.....where did I go wrong??? 

[Oldboy]

It's common sense that if a dog chases a Swan into the pond, and you are holding the lead - then let go else, you end up in the water. 

Oops!!!







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[jinky]

lol oldboy - great capture. Bet she felt silly!