Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:16:02 +0200 >From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> >Subject: Re: [Leica] leica, don't fail me now! -- oh dang! >In most situations, if you use flash at all, it's an on-camera flash. >Your subject looks kind of washed out and brightly lit against a >completely dark background. It has an artificial look to it (because >it _is_ artificial) and it... If you set your shutter speed together with the aperture needed for the flash for the ambient light, you'll pick up the background easily. >The only way I see to get realistic and attractive photos is to use >available light. Depends on how you define "realistic and attractive". There some photographers who were/are using flash very effectively and not only for documentation purposes. Look at some work by Bruce Gilden, William Klein, Carl de Keyser, Raghubir Sigh (sp?), and Mario Giacomelli, for instance. Some of them are Leica users, to keep on topic. Hey, if the flash is available, then it is available light.:-) I'm not advocating use of flash, but sometimes it can be helpful or it can be used creatively, just like other tools, but requires some learning be used successfully. Seems like people should try it, before dismissing it altogether. You'll never know what will that Leica lens reveal... Jiri D.