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06-DEC-2006

Btry Wallace interior, Subterranea flash technique.JPG

AFTER: This is how the same hall appears when photographed with hand-held flashes. For this view, the door was closed and the only illumination came from the 580ex fired repeatedly from various angles. Although I didn't really keep track of the individual flashes (I was too busy feeling my way along the hall), I guesstimate this shot required 15-18 flash pops, some aimed at the walls and others flashed inside the rooms at right but aimed back out into the hallway to accentuate the doorway openings. I first became aware of this technique on a website called "Subterranea Brittanica" whose members explore and photograph abandoned underground British sites including fortifications, subway stations, coal mines, and other places I'd never venture into alone.

Canon EOS 30D
65s f/5.6 at 17.0mm iso200 full exif

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