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Re: [OM] (OT) Fourth of July Parade

Subject: Re: [OM] (OT) Fourth of July Parade
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 12:05:52 -0400
Thanx! Informative. And may make things, ah, inexpensive. <g>

--Bob Whitmire
"Art's just fart without the eff."
www.bwp33.com




On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> Nice stuff despite no fill flash.  But don't go buy a fancy flash for
> fill.  TTL fill flash for digital just doesn't work very well.  If
> you've gotta have automation normal flash controlled auto mode works
> better and more consistently.  Use a T-32, a Vivitar 285HV, a Sunpak  
> 383
> or 422 or any of a bunch of low cost (old) flash units that provide  
> auto
> modes.  Most (except the T-32) also provide good manual flash power
> level control as well.  See:
> <http://www.shootsmarter.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239&acat=16
>  
> >
>
> Dr. Flash
>
>
> Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> Every year my village of Round Pond holds a Fourth of July parade.
>> There is no organization, no one really in charge, and no limits save
>> taste on entries. In the past few years, however, since an article in
>> Down East magazine and a huge feature two years ago in the New York
>> Times, many more people have flooded our little village on the  
>> Fourth,
>> and now, while anarchy continues to more or less reign, we do get a
>> lot of "no parking this side" signs and the local sheriff's  
>> department
>> sends down a few deputies. Still and all, it's quite a day.
>>
>> www.bwp33.com
>>
>> The home page picture is from the parade, and there's a whole page
>> dedicated to photos. This is not my usual cuppa, and the sun actually
>> showed itself for the first time in more than a month about twenty
>> minutes before the parade started. Gonna have to get me a fancy fill
>> flash, for sure.

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