At 7:48 PM -0600 1/6/09, Lea Murphy wrote:
OR just look at your digital readout.
If your highlights are blinking turn your flash down. If things are
dark, turn it up.
Sure, if you have a second chance. But when you're shooting award
ceremonies things have to just work!
Or inauguration parties, or anything else that's happening on the
fly, boat christenings in rooms that are 60 feet long and 20 feet
wide and have 20 foot ceilings. Or when the people you're shooting
are standing a foot from a wall or 3 inches from the hull of a new
boat. Or when you can't see your recycle light and have to catch the
next face before it blinks. Or when you need to shoot off 3-5 shots
in one cycle to be certain of having one in which nobody is blinking.
Or when you only use the flash 3 times a year and once knew how to
turn it down but now would have to get out the manual and study it
and all the buttons for 20 minutes to figure out how!
Or, God forbid, when you're only 5'4" and the person you're shooting
is 6'2" and there is no time for step ladders and 4 people between
you and the subject. Ugly flash shadows on the wall behind the
subject make him/her look like a vampire!
Or when your subject is on a porch, back to the water and brilliant
clear sky in high noon light and you really would shoot them at 100
ISO at f8 but the flash won't sync with the resulting exposure time.
Heellllllllppp!
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Emily L. Ferguson
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