Hoyt Arboretum, Portland, Oregon

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rkeller
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Re: Ditto
In reply to RealPancho, 4 months ago

RealPancho wrote:

"If you pick up a camera with any sort of serious intent, you will at least occasionally need to use a flash. Done deal. Lock solid, Take it to the bank." - Joe McNally

Seems pretty narrow-minded.

On the contrary. It's the "natural" light or nothing crowd who is narrow-minded.

Logically, his statement puts "occasional use of flash" as a necessary condition of "serious intent." This is patently narrow-minded and absurd. He is imposing his chosen methodology upon others.

As for the natural light or nothing crowd, if you mean a group of people who dismiss anything shot with other than natural light, then yes, that is also narrow-minded. But if you mean those who choose to use only natural light in their photography, what concern is it of yours? I respect both the use and avoidance of flash equally and unconditionally.

Eh. Show me a well-rounded professional photographer who never has to use flash.

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"If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself." - George Orwell "Politics and the English Language"
"Unfortunately, in digital photography a lot of people are seeing pixels, not photographs ... Everyone together now: it's not the pixels. Sing it with me." - Thom Hogan
"If you pick up a camera with any sort of serious intent, you will at least occasionally need to use a flash. Done deal. Lock solid, Take it to the bank." - Joe McNally

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"If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself." - George Orwell "Politics and the English Language"
"Unfortunately, in digital photography a lot of people are seeing pixels, not photographs ... Everyone together now: it's not the pixels. Sing it with me." - Thom Hogan
"If you pick up a camera with any sort of serious intent, you will at least occasionally need to use a flash. Done deal. Lock solid, Take it to the bank." - Joe McNally

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