[Leica] Snow storm flash 3 from The Rabs

[scoutfinch at chartermi.net (Susan Ryan)]

Whoda thunk?

way cool - about the first time I've seen a full frontal flash that  
was interesting!


Sue Ryan
scoutfinch at chartermi.net

"It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to  
deal with stupidity." - unknown

On Oct 7, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Somebody once showed me their stack of 4x6 snaps of the snow storm  
> we'd just
> had in Portland Oregon we'd get them once every 4 or 5 years and  
> they were
> one of the many people who with their tiny cameras let the flash fire
> automatically when it feels like it which ends up being most the time.
>
>
>
> I vowed to try it some time. Though that was 5 or 10 years ago.
> I know I've popped up the flash and shot the rain once or twice.
>
> The problem with shooting weather is you don't capture the  
> precipitation
> like you see it because rain and snow and ice falling from the sky  
> fall a
> lot faster then you think it does and the camera is only going to  
> get it at
> the highest shudder speed where you get now depth of field. I read  
> that in a
> Pop Photo in the 60's.
>
> Flash photography of landscapes and cityscapes is almost in general
> laughingly non recommended. To use one in such a case is breaking a  
> basic
> rule of technique and common sense and taste.
> All the more reason....
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/100210_171449.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/100210_171142b.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/100210_171123.jpg.html
> Or just look at the first one and hit the arrow to see the next two
>
>
> I vowed as I came to NY for the snow that next snow storm I'd be out  
> with my
> camera gear including my take no prisoners Nikon Speedlight SB-800  
> which
> weighs a full pound almost.
> This made is so I could blast the heck out of trees across the street
> capturing the snow falling with an effective 20,000th of a second  
> capturing
> (not shutter) speed as the shutter speed becomes in effect the flash
> duration.
> So my pix look like the big boy version of my friends snapshots in  
> the 90's.
> I set the flash after a while at f5 as I was starting to overheat.  
> That was
> the reason. But it got what I needed anyway.  Lots of snow in the air.
> Before that I was shooting at f 8 or 11.
>
> The 24.0-85.0 mm f/3.5-4.5 Nikkor was used with a D200 body.
> ISO's were kept low at 250 or 350.
>
> Oh they were shot at dusk or night.
>
> My flash and camera were soaked and I was soaked down to my  
> underwear when I
> got home I was quite a sight coming into this building. Next day we  
> got more
> snow and I did it again.
> And DID NOT CATCH A COLD.
> And my gear when my camera, lens and flash dried off still worked.
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> mark at rabinergroup.com
>
>
>
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