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Re: [OM] IMGS: FLASH!! vs No Flash

Subject: Re: [OM] IMGS: FLASH!! vs No Flash
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:46:01 -0500
Absolutely agreed.  But you must be in 7th heaven these days with high 
ISO capability you never had with film.

Chuck Norcutt


On 2/20/2014 10:19 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> PESO:
>
> The reason I don't use flash:  When I stay with families in communities
> where there is no electricity, I want to sit back in a corner and try to be
> invisible, until they forget that I'm there and go about their daily lives.
>   The inside of their adobe houses is very dark.  I use fast lenses, quiet
> cameras and high speed film.
>
> http://tinamanley.smugmug.com/Central-America/Honduras/Honduras/3917411_sWqp63#!i=1213150734&k=n398phZ
>
> I did take flash the first few years, but it attracts so much attention
> that everybody in the community comes by to have their picture taken and
> watch the amazing flash light up the whole room.  Pretty soon, the kids are
> hamming it up and posing with rabbit ears and the situation deteriorates
> into a circus.
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/154556174  and next two.
>
> I don't think I ever even carried a flash after 1990.  It just doesn't work
> for documentary photography.
>
> Agree?
>
> Tina
>
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