Why do you seem to have such an interest in my learning about flash photography? Sounds like you're taking my position personally.
Just because a subject has been presented here frequently, and information is readily available from other sources, is not reason enough for me to spend time learning about something I care nothing about. I don't follow the beer discussions either. I don't know anything about flash ... OK, that's not true. I know that flash emits light and can alter the light in a scene. I know what the term bounce flash means. There may be one or two other small, unimportant items that I know ~something~ about, but if there are, I don't know what they are off hand. Oh, I've heard the term second curtain synch used, but I don't know much more about it than that. In fact, until I heard that term I had no idea that there was even a second curtain in an SLR. I know a lot of technical stuff. I'm good at a few things in photography. But my skills are very limited - they fall within a limited range. There are any number of photogs on this list who know more about more stuff than I do. For example, I hadn't shot color much before this year except for a few vacation and holiday snaps. Now I want to learn more about color films. So, when there's something in particular that interests me, i ask the list. There are a few people here who are very good in both understanding some aspects of color and sharing what they know. Mark Cassino once provided wonderful information to help me understand macro magnification and DoF, a subject that I knew nothing of any substance about. Recently Cotty put up some pics he made of his sun kicking a ball about. He used flash. I liked the result. When and if I'm ready to learn about that you can bet I'll be asking Cotty a lot of questions. For now just looking at the pics without knowing all the technical stuff is both enjoyable and interesting, and the photos instill in me a sense of joy and amazement. FWIW, learning about how he did those great pics at this point would detract from that joy, and the pics would lose their "magic" for me. When I'm ready to learn about flash, I'll learn about it. Yes, I'm intelligent, but I'm also ignorant about a number of things. I don't mind being ignorant about the things that don't interest me, or that I know I will get to in time. It allows me time to be better informed about the things that do interest me - which, incidentally, go way beyond photography. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 8/7/2005 11:00:53 AM > Subject: Re: First attempt with auto focus > > > ... I don't consider the comment dismissive or disingenuous. ... > > Obviously, our opinion differs. > > Saying time and time again "I don't know anything about flash" when > the information has been presented and is easily available to you > means you don't WANT to know anything about the subject and, > furthermore, that you are adamantly refusing to participate and learn > in any such discussion, which is a put-down to the person mentioning > it who is trying to be helpful. That is, in my opinion, dismissive > and condescending. > > It's also lying because i know you are an intelligent person and know > SOMETHING more about flash than "nothing". By your own statements, > you know enough about it to have formed an opinion that it is not > something that you want to know much about. That's why saying "I > don't know anything about flash" is disingenuous.
