Backlighting and blindness

[candleman]

In using my gold reflector yesterday… I think my kids need laser eye surgery after I burned theor retinas with the reflector.
Ok, that’s a sligh exaggeration.

Something I did notice was that they were squinting a heck of allot, sure the gold was very bright. i noticed it because they were telling me "its too briiiiiight"

Heres the link to the 3 that I liked the most.
3 kids and a Golden afternoon

How do you moderate the intensity of the fill light (I was backlighting as you can see) AND get enough fill ??
I tried moving the reflector back, but that didn’t really stop the squint factor.

Any tips or hints???

I thought of putting a piece of curtain “meshy stuff” I think its called lace over the front of the reflector to reduce the glare.. but *shrug*
I couldn’t seem to get a happy medium. Enough fill without squinting.


Admittedly, the light was direct and harsh, no shade.
To the edge lighting on the back/sides of the heads is from the direct sunlight, the fill was from the reflector.
You can see how bright it was by how dark the background is.

[archersdad]

A layer or two of thule (bridal veil stuff, it is super cheap) will cut down on the glare a bit. Is your new reflector flexible? If so you might want to try bending the edges back a bit to spread out the reflected light which will help to reduce it's intensity.

[candleman]

thanks, thats what i meant..
i'll have to give it a go next time.. or just tell them to "man-up"

cheers

[OsmosisStudios]

Bounce it off something else

Either another reflector or the ground or something.

[fletch]

Originally Posted by candleman

or just tell them to "man-up"

cheers

Just tell them to "man-up", its only a flaming ball of fire in the sky after all!

[candleman]

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios

Bounce it off something else
Either another reflector or the ground or something.

hmmm.. not bad. i'll give that a go.
cheers.

Originally Posted by fletch

Just tell them to "man-up", its only a flaming ball of fire in the sky after all!

yeah its easy right!, c'mon i can stare an a candle for ages what so hard about staring at the sun?

for goodness ake.. they probably dont even use most of their eyes capabilities. whats the problem with partial blindness.. its only partial.



man-up!