I almost always use a flash when shooting outdoor situations where I
can't control the angle of the light. The 540 works reasonably well in
these situations with no diffuser and in high-speed synch mode. Most
of my playground shots of Grace and her friends are shot with flash
fill. Without it, the shadows would be far too deep. Since the level
of flash doesn't come up to ambient anyway, I just shoot full power in
most situations. For extremely close shots, I'll dial it back a stop.
Paul
On Sep 28, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I'm starting to look at my photos from the Folsom Street Fair
yesterday.
I saw a lot of people wandering around with external flashes and a
small diffuser (about the size of the flash) on their camera. I
wondered whether it would do any good in that light. It seemed rather
silly to me.
After going through my shots of the White Rats Experimental Morris,
and seeing all of the problems I had with shade and sun, I think that
I may have to try it myself. Unfortunately, that makes the camera a
lot bigger and more obtrusive. I've also had miserable luck with my
AF-540 in any sort of quirky lighting situation.
I noticed another problem I had with shooting the morris dancers. I
cut off their feet in way too many of the shots, shots where there was
plenty of headroom.
I can see that there's a lot to learn about shooting street fairs, and
it'll take a lot of blown shots to figure it out. It does seem that
playing the numbers by shooting a lot of photos is going to be a key
technique. Another would be to shoot a wider angle than would be
nominal, just so you have room for cropping to make up for the lack of
time to carefully aim, or the lack of ability when "shooting from the
chest".
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The first step is learning to take great photos,
the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good.
Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc
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