Today’s show features Charles Ramírez Berg from the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, a little re-run of my Top 6 essentials from show #5 and as usual - lots of fun!
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Love the show, but have been having problems downloading the mp3’s from this website. For some reason I get alot of file not found errors when I try to download the files from the link. I really want to listen to this show too!
Alston,
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Thank you for sharing your passion of photograophy. The information is very valuable.
This is a useful set of tips. But I didn’t understand the tip not to use flash. I use it all the time. Here is an example of a picture that would have been difficult, if not impossible to take as successfully in the available light:
http://robins.smugmug.com/gallery/304707/1/12106435/Large
I would have phrased the tip as “Avoid using the built-in flash on compact cameras.” A corollary tip would have been “When selecting a comera, always choose one that accepts an external flash and learn the basics of flash exposure and bounce flash techniques.”
An alternative might have been: “Often a picture will be more pleasing or more dramatic or more memorable, if conditions permit taking the picture in availabe light rather than using a flash.” But that has a corollary also:
“Even outdoors, proper use of a flash can dramatically improve a picture by eliminating harsh shadows or color cast.”
Stan,
thanks for your feedback. As I keep stating in my shows quite often: The only real rule out there is that there’s no rules. So please don’t take everything I say absolutely literally. There are of course situations where you can only get the picture with the flash, and yes, outside there are some good situations that work well with flash, especially in back-light situations. So I hope you could still get at least something out of the tips given on this show.
Cheers,
Chris