Come clean, AG. You say "nobody needs flash" and then go on to talk
about where it's really still needed. When I can boost shadows in post
as cleanly as I can reduce highlight I'll agree. I hate flash but still
use it... when it's required.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/5/2015 11:55 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
Not sure that I would bother with this approach at all, anymore.
With ultra-high clean ISOs of modern cameras, nobody needs flash. And
if you do need flash, you're using a lower power setting and light
modifiers. I am likely no never buy another flash, but will transition
to LED panels instead.
Another aspect to all this is the fact that the old flashes, with
built-in auto-exposure DO work very well. The T45 is a good example of
this. I can dial in the auto-flash eye on it and use it with digital
cameras without fear. Best of all, it has the oomph and recycle time
to kick rump with bounce or modifiers.
Modifiers, you ask?
Yeah, for on-camera, I'm using a modifier, but for off-camera (radio)
I'm usually using either an umbrella or a soft-box. either one gives a
HUGE improvement over anything you can do with on-camera.
What about event photography? Again, not that big of a problem with
high-ISOs. Topping out at 400 is not longer an issue. 800 or 1600 is
just peachy. Most of the time, with event photography, you're shooting
about 2 meters from your subject. Sometimes as close as 1 but rarely
beyond 4. If you are shooting somebody on stage, you might use some
flash, but mostly as fill. I'm rarely using flash anymore. Portraits
and stuff will need some flash, but otherwise I'm ambient. If it's a
dark venue, (like at a reception in a candle-lit room), I'll through a
couple of radio fired strobes up onto the ceiling and shoot on-camera
fill. All low power to keep people from throttling me and red-eye to a
minimum.
AG
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