Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/20
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Eric Welch wrote:
>Very good point. This is where many National Geographic photographers te=
nd
>to use flash. Some just don't shoot at all during the mid-day if they do=
n't
>have to, or they move indoors. Jim Stanfield comes to mind in that case.
>The Geographic Explorer video is one place he says it. And that's what h=
e
>told me as well. David Allen Harvey too. Bill Allard. Others come to min=
d.
I've *seen* Stanfield shooting at midday - but none of those frames were
used in the published story ;-).
And Allard's use of fill with slow shutter speeds is - of course -=20
exemplary.
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