The notion of stealing flash reminds me of shooting drag racing at twilight twenty years ago or so. I would line up at the starting line with twenty or thirty other photographers during twilight qualifying sessions. Those in the know shot toward the sunset afterglow with a flash. I would always figure my exposure to include not only my flash but two or three others as well and shoot at 1/30th or so. When it worked, it was kind of nice. Lots of light from multiple sources against a twilight background.
Here's one I shot at the Summernationals in Englishtown, New Jersey in '84:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2570527&size=lg
On Dec 22, 2004, at 10:24 PM, frank theriault wrote:
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:05:40 -0800, Juan Buhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Spent the day yesterday at a little corporate self-congratulatory event here in LA (stranded in the airport now)
Anyway--one good thing photographic came out of it. I don't like flash photography, but I like "stealing" other people's flash. Here's a pic that I think works:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2085193/
Comments appreciated...
What a cool shot!!
So, what do you do, open for a fairly long exposure, hoping to get illumination from another camera?
Tell me how you do that!
I really like the photo, too.Great pose (especially him), and I like the framing, with the rail and design of the wall in the background. The more I look at this, the more I find to like.
cheers, frank
-- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
