Strobist in the Clouds?

[richpips]

Trying to get my head round what will happen if I shoot remote flash in very thick mist, ie when the clag is down.

To give an idea of conditions, here's a picture shot without flash.

So if I lit the same shot with a couple of strobes out of shot right, pointing at the lead person would

a) I successfully illuminate said person,

or

b) I just create two wide light beams reflected off the water droplets.

 

[33L]

im going for b, same principle as night club lights in smoke.

 

[arad85]

im going for b, same principle as night club lights in smoke.

or car headlights in... umm... fog

 

[richpips]

I know if I point a bright light straight ahead eg on camera flash that the light would come straight back at me.

However as the flash would be near right angled relative to the camera / person would I still get much reflected light from the cloud?

 

[arad85]

However as the flash would be near right angled relative to the camera / person would I still get much reflected light from the cloud?

My guess would be you'd get the same effect as car headlight beams in fog as they go past on a road if you are on the pavement. If I remember correctly, that means the fog lights up as the light is dispersed in the water droplets (but I try to stay in on foggy days so I could be wrong )

 

[lawrie29]

I would have expected the light to reflect of the fog into the lens, essentially burning out part of the image, leaving the rest of the shot underexposed.

 

[Marcus Geezer]

I did a promo shoot for a paintball site where we popped smokes to give it some atmosphere. Within about 10 seconds we had to exit the building and looking at the shots I took we nailed the shot from the first few frames but the rest the off camera flash just illuminated the smoke. I would guess the same for fog etc.

 

[richpips]

I did a promo shoot for a paintball site where we popped smokes to give it some atmosphere. Within about 10 seconds we had to exit the building and looking at the shots I took we nailed the shot from the first few frames but the rest the off camera flash just illuminated the smoke. I would guess the same for fog etc.

I guess the outcome would be the same then.

Thanks.