Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Every year my village of Round Pond holds a Fourth of July parade ..., it's
> quite a day.
>
> www.bwp33.com
>
> ... This is not my usual cuppa, and the sun actually showed itself for the
> first time in more than a month about twenty minutes before the parade
> started.
Nice documentation of the event. WooHoo, though should have been framed
to include all the gams. :-)
> Gonna have to get me a fancy fill flash, for sure.
>
I'm not convinced about that. In light that bright, with those subjects,
I imagine any mid power flash would often not be close enough to have
much effect. Then there's the problem of flash and closer objects. With
manual, it could overlight them, pulling focus away from the primary
subject. With on flash Auto, the close brightness would quench the flash
too early for the intended subject.
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Whitmire/RPond4th.htm>
I wouldn't necessarily propose exactly what I've done in this example.
With an original size, 16 bit image, a more subtle effect could be
achieved. And the amount of fill is a matter of taste. Perhaps another
reason to opt for PP fill?
In any case, with a low noise camera like the D3 in bright light, there
should be almost endless shadow detail available to pull up as desired.
You'd be amazed what a nice dose of combined Shadow & Highlight would do
for all these images.
Dr. Eschew Flash
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