Ya know, this thread has gotten a little twisted around, and has turned away from my original question, which was that I wanted to try some color film to catch ~people~ drooling over the cars at the show. Comments were made about how to photograph cars, which are purely incidental to the people at the show.
Photographing people in the style that I do precludes the use of flash. Flash gets in the way of quiet, unobtrusive photography. Should I wish to shoot a few frames or make a series of exposures of a certain person or group of people, once the flash goes off the mood is ruined, or at least changed, from what I would be trying to capture, that being fleeting moments, subtle interactions, and the dynamics of people in specific situations. Using color film is, for me, a learning process. Knowing how it would perform in a given situation, such as the show environment, is my primary interest. So, the idea is to use a film that's best suited to the situation, and perhaps use a filter to help. However, that's as far as I'll go ... no flash, no way, no how. The use of a flash would impede the learning process, as it would mask or obliterate any color cast that the film would pick up. I am not a wedding photographer. I am not a journalist sitting amongst hoards of other journalists snapping away at their subject using loud winders and motor drives, long or zoom lenses, and flash, which, often, their subjects are used to and have come to expect. I also noted that I wanted to try a ~roll~ of color. Once that's done, all else will be shot with B&W, with a 35mm lens, maybe a 50mm in my pocket, and a single, quiet camera body. No flash is needed for B&W, I don't have to worry about color balance and custom printers, and I can concentrate on the subjects at hand. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My point was to shoot the proposed situation > under conditions which would do the most to > obviate any confusion caused by different light > sources: fast print film, four layer FUJI being > one and a "pop" of flash. > > ~Then~ the custom printer can finish what your > shots miss. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/pow/enter_pow.html http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/cameras/pentax_repair_shops.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
