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Originally posted by monaro
very nice smile and lovely white teeth.
Feynman, your photography skills must be out of this world
by the looks of that photo.. very impressive.
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I've been doing snapshot photography (including developping B&W film) for over 36 years. I'm always waiting for the RIGHT moment to click the shutter, and take great care in framing properly (but that's a second nature).
In my university days, for about seven years, I was always carrying a camera and always shooting full manual. I can evaluate light by eye pretty well (outside). Inside is more touchy. I supplemented my income with photo contracts then.
Kodak's free advice for almost a century:
Open any pack of Kodak film and they'll give you that rule of thumb: shoot at speed= 1 over ASA, and then there's a chart for the opening of the lens. Since the sun, as a source, did not change significantly in the last few million years, this little rule of thumb, even if taken from a pack of film dating from 1901, still applies fully. Remember that.
For the record, my camera does not have a fully integrated flash because I shoot with a Nikon flash on a Canon camera. No budget to purchase the big Canon gun yet. I have others priorities.
So I use the flash in rudimentary auto mode and set it for the camera in full manual mode at 1/200th f 5.6.
One of the trick is to use bounced flash to your advantage. Low stucco ceilings in hotel rooms give a FANTASTIC soft lighting, as you can see in some of my images.
http://www.dfeynman.com/misc/QwebecExpo2004
In the above pic, Christine was shot with direct flash illumination though, no softlight bounce. Softlight bounce takes more time, for you have to orient the flash for each shot, and there is sometimes no time to fiddle with that when you're in a rush.
I see Christine Young has joined XNations
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