Fill-flash to the rescue–Taken in San Bernardino during a citywide tribute for  Winter Olympian Derek Parra, this picture would have been a disaster given the high noon lighting, baseball cap on my subject’s face. My flash was not on-camera. I held my flash on its extension sync cord with my left hand and aimed downwards. Had it been on-camera, the foreground subjects would have been over-exposed. Compare this against the vertical picture after the jump.
In my earlier post “More Beginning Photographer Mistakes†I mentioned how not having an understanding of flash can be a source of problems. (See #15 in that post)
Camera manufacturers for prosumer models often include a built-in flash for convenience.
The best of us struggle with fresh ideas when it comes to photography.
What separates the good photographers from the mediocre ones are ideas.
Most common excuses or reasons not to go out and get motivated and use that camera is this: Oh… That’s been done countless time. I’m better than that.
It’s Newton’s1st Law of Motion which relates to inertia. A body stays at rest or continues in motion in the same direction until another force acts on it.
Inertia is something every photographer needs to overcome. Whether it’s shooting something time and again the same way, the safe way.
Thanks Massiel from Down Under, Michael Hayes, Maura Graber, Anne Brown and Terra for all your support. The name change wasn’t a crisis at all, but it’s always nice to be appreciated.
This egret surprisingly didn’t mind that I approached within 3 feet of it. It must either have been used to humans or was hungry. I waited patiently for it to get used to me and I didn’t push my luck. ISO 50 1/15 sec @ f8. Why did I choose the slow shutter speed? Continue reading Nature pictures with a Point-and-Shoot camera→
Photo tips from a creative Southern California photographer
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