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SheddingSome LightOn The Subject
Thoughts on Using Fill-Flash In Landscape Photography
By: Steve Kossack
I'm a landscape photographer, therefore fill-flash, or the use of anything that isn't part of the natural scene before me, was not a consideration. For many years that was the way I worked. In the early days of my photography I believed that you merely captured what was available. Mostly what I ended up with was a straightforward documentary photograph. I made one exposure, usually for the highlights, and that was that.
A couple of things began to change my thinking. I enrolled in a college photography program and found myself in the Art department where it was the practice to manipulate images; the main idea being to say different things. The key was to come up with something that hadn't been done before. It started me on my long, long journey to learn to see light. Or more precisely, what wasinthat light and how film might see it.
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