Vicars and Tarts Mixer

[tyrven]

Comments

[gfrancie]

I think for a Vicars and Tarts party to really work it has to be done on a nice summer day as a sort of garden party. Everything is very civilized except for the outfits.

[lormagins]

one of the guys in the set (blue shirt, taking a photo) looks a lot like a real-life version of one of the characters from "gorillaz

[tyrven]

Are you talking about this set or a previous set? I actually didn't use flash with this set (it's all available lighting) although the lighting was relatively dim (not a lot of ambient light) and thus it came across as fairly stark and contrasted in a lot of shots.

I don't mind the dramatic effect of indirect detatched flash. That's possible to acheive w/ attached flash (like the ones of Katie sleeping) but it's definitely difficult to accomplish unless you have an ideal environment (e.g., close neutral colored walls/ceilings to bounce off of).

I think I'm going to buy some detached lighting instead of buying another flash and see how that works out. It won't be as mobile, of course, but I think it'll work well for most cases where I need extra lighting. I may also buy a flash at some point but that'll be secondary to detached lighting.

[lormagins]

hmmm, actually i was talking about this set - you mentioned that you've now returned the flash so i assumed you'd used it for this one, and the way the pics looked i certainly would have been able to believe they were taken with flash. weird. yeah, it's mostly the starkness of the lighting that i was talking about then - i found flash (in my experience, anyway) creates a similar effect. of course, so do american sitcom tv sets, but that's for another rant altogether

[thingstouchme]

my faves are 26, 27, and 29. that girl is hott.

[phunbee]

People were arrested at your party! I wanna be arrested for partying too hard. Lame!