Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's true in a society that is used to cameras and flashes. In rural Honduras and Guatemala, they have never seen a flash. The only light they have seen other than the sun and moon and firelight and candles, is a flashlight. It is amazing to them to see a sudden bright light and they don't ignore it or forget it. I'll try to find some of the several hundred photos I have of families staring in amazement at a flash, until I finally stopped using them altogether. Tina On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:17 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > If you're truly "working" a scene or event or a particular subject. > The subject knows you're there doing exactly that; with or without the > flash. > They'll eventually forget about you, your camera and the flash; > assuming that you can let go of the notion that it's drawing attention; > and simply use it as another tool. > > YMMV > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > On Oct 6, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > > > Available light is any damn light that is available! - W. Eugene > > Smith<http://www.photoquotes.com/showquotes.aspx?id=53&name=Smith,W.> > > > > *I still don't know how you get around drawing attention to yourself > every > > time a flash goes off.* > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com