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Subject: [Leica] IMGS: FLASH!! vs No Flash
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 06:46:35 +1000
References: <CA+yJO1AnLVkugCRvOz7agAxFaYKrmhfUO5d3+nseNbL4DN6oyw@mail.gmail.com> <D0613E3D-9906-489E-8ABD-4F2E2BC10A25@frozenlight.eu>

Well it's the wrong tool for the styles of Tina or Nathan or Lluis or Doug
etc etc. It's a superb if not essential tool in other environments. My M
and a borrowed S never disintegrated despite my wilful heresy in studio
locations. Geesh I even stop down my lenses frequently AND shoot for colour
if that's what I am after.


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 21 February 2014 04:24, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Fully agree. Flash is evil.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
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> YNWA
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> On Feb 20, 2014, at 4:19 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
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> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Tina Manley
> > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com
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Replies: Reply from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] IMGS: FLASH!! vs No Flash)
In reply to: Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMGS: FLASH!! vs No Flash)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] IMGS: FLASH!! vs No Flash)