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In Reply to: Wow...thanks... posted by FeedBag on January 22, 2003 at 06:00:39:

ever burn your fingers with hot flash bulbs? I've been in the game since '72, and doing weddings I carried 497 battery,Metz and yashica TLR.Now it's my Hassy and modern 800 asa films with more ambient light shots and/orbounce flash.Sometimes portable umbrellas.
Certainly you can recognize that PJ work differs from the past!Faster shooting styles,get different angles and perspectives. Require high speed drives, small cameras and flash held out to the sides ,for that side lighting natural look.Yes! getting good shadows and facial modeling is still desired.I was talking about ridding ourselves of that strong heavy black shadow behind a subject.Inorder to make a less obtrusive softer one.So we are not that far off in our shooting style,you and I.
Also in a news gattering situation,where there are maybe up to 50-100 PJ's all fireing together the subject is more comfortable seeing us bounce flash and not blinding them.See my above pic.
In my commercial shoots,I also use creative flash/umbrella with reflector boards and gobos,for emulating natural shadows , such as palm fronds,window blinds.On room walls or on models themselves.
But we are getting ahead of most shooters here on Shutterbug st.Maybe not!

Shutterbug Strasse

I envy...you pioneers with those Graflex