Adjusting For Wind

[djg05478]

This woman "gets" it! ... well done Debbie!

I was in Boston a couple weeks ago for the Flashbus event with Joe McNally and David Hobby. While I haven't ventured into the world of off camera flash just yet, which was really the focus of the event, it was still a great learning experience. David did his presentation in the morning and Joe did his thing in the afternoon. Both of them were so friendly and casual and all about questions from the audience..I really learned alot. For Joe's part, he was working live without net getting people from the audience up on stage and taking pix. We sat there and watched him shoot and tweak and shoot and bend and a gel on this one, softbox here, reflector there...it was really cool to watch him work...took a lot of the mystery out of it. Those guys aren't hung up on numbers, they take a guess (yeah, albeit an experienced guess), take a shot, take a look, make some adjustments and keep going. So cool to hear them talk about light...I can't remember any of the sage bits right now..but just the deep felt appreciation for light.

[Colin Southern]

I was in Boston a couple weeks ago for the Flashbus event with Joe McNally and David Hobby. While I haven't ventured into the world of off camera flash just yet, which was really the focus of the event, it was still a great learning experience. David did his presentation in the morning and Joe did his thing in the afternoon. Both of them were so friendly and casual and all about questions from the audience..I really learned alot. For Joe's part, he was working live without net getting people from the audience up on stage and taking pix. We sat there and watched him shoot and tweak and shoot and bend and a gel on this one, softbox here, reflector there...it was really cool to watch him work...took a lot of the mystery out of it. Those guys aren't hung up on numbers, they take a guess (yeah, albeit an experienced guess), take a shot, take a look, make some adjustments and keep going. So cool to hear them talk about light...I can't remember any of the sage bits right now..but just the deep felt appreciation for light.

I like Joe - taught him everything he knows about flash. No, hang on -- other way around!

[djg05478]

Meanwhile, somewhere in Vermont, a nuclear meltdown occurs because someone made the wrong settings decision on their camera. Details at 6. But first, your local weather.



- Bill

Hehe.....Careful Bill, in VT right now we have a nuclear reactor (our only one) that is at the end of its 20 year license. There's a legal battle a brewing cause many people want to renew the license and many people want the thing shut down as planned. There haven't been any major mishaps, but over the past couple of years there have been a few 'whoopsies' at the plant that have some folks concerned. Kind of a hot topic in these parts right now.

....but thats still not reason to be afraid of shooting manual

[Colin Southern]

Hehe.....Careful Bill, in VT right now we have a nuclear reactor (our only one) that is at the end of its 20 year license. There's a legal battle a brewing cause many people want to renew the license and many people want the thing shut down as planned. There haven't been any major mishaps, but over the past couple of years there have been a few 'whoopsies' at the plant that have some folks concerned. Kind of a hot topic in these parts right now.

....but thats still not reason to be afraid of shooting manual

I'm in two minds about them to be honest -- on one hand, I'm convinced that it's possible to build them in a manner than provides an acceptable degree of safety - but on the other hand, it seems that whenever humans are involved, shortcuts and complacency seem to always follow close behind -- but on my 3rd hand (I'm a very handy person!), if we shut down nuclear stations because they're dangerous - and we shut down oil / gas / coal power stations because they pollute the environment - and we shut down hydroelectric stations because the dams cause the water levels to rise and that kills the native worms and snails, what are we left with?

Seems that whenever I read up on Nuclear power station accidents it always seems that a LOT of things could have been done a LOT better.

Food for thought perhaps