Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fully agree. Flash is evil. Cheers, Nathan 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/ YNWA On Feb 20, 2014, at 4:19 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >