No More Pictures, Please

Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 13 July 2007 in People & Portrait.

I prefer "natural" light. I'm not fond of photos where flash is an obvious and predominate light source. Normally I don't use the flash on the camera so I decided to experiment.

The main objective of my experimentation was to determine if using the built-in flash with various levels of compensation, and metering off different components of the image, could produce a balanced and "natural" looking photo --or at least mitigate the obvious use of flash as a light source.

I think it's a rule of photography that when you take a series of photographs the ones with the worst technical errors will contain the best representations of the subject. It's a little ironic here because the error emphasizes the use of flash as a light source. The shadow in the foreground of this image was caused by the lens hood. I can't call this a mistake, really, because I left the lens hood on intentionally to determine its effect, and now I know.

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