That was never the question, at least not the question Chuck responded to. Chuck was responding to:
So how would I set my reflector for fill without setting my single key light first?
The real (short) answer is that a small reflector does not do fill very well. Chuck spent a lot of time fully explaining why it doesn\'t. There was nothing there about being afraid of shadows.
Actually, the question was never about how well a reflector works but more about how it (and fill) works and it\'s relationship to the key. Unfortunately it was presented as an obtuse rhetorical question. Dr. Fill simply picked up the ball and ran with it into his own end zone (eg. methodology). I\'d flag him for an unsportsmanlike (doing the Zeltzman dance ), but seemed like a safety should be penalty enough. For a full replay in slow motion be sure to check out: End Zone Dance
The simple answer of course is that a reflector needs light to work, just as a fill light needs a primary light source. If there is no primary light source, then a fill light is not a fill, it is the primary or \"key\" light. Fill, by definition, is always subservient to the key, whether you set it first or not.
This ain\'t rocket science folks.
By the way if anybody here can set a reflector for proper fill without any light, I will gladly read Chuck\'s tutorials and Zeltsmann\'s tome from beginning to end again.
Oct 23, 2009 at 02:05 PM
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), but seemed like a safety should be penalty enough. For a full replay in slow motion be sure to check out: