Poll: Are You An Available Light Or a Strobist Kinda Shooter?
This poll is another step in my journey to know you better. This time I am asking a simple question: do you use artificial lights?
On the red corner we have your typical Strobist, light commands the hand motions, just like the apprentice in Walt Disney's Fantasia.
On the blue corner we have the naturalist, packs light (no pan intended) and uses the elements (or other available light) as shaping tools.
And of course everything in between - this is why we have other.
if you wonder why the sun flower on the top of the post check out the captions on the original image by Vincent van der Pas.
Here are the results from out last poll: "You Have Gear?". Quite a bit of interesting comments on the "other" answers.
here are my two favs: "I love gear, what I don't own I make, what I can't make I tell my wife
about enough times she thinks I've had it all along once I've bought
it."
"I have GHS - gear homemaking syndrome !"
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Available Light
I prefer David Hobby's term "available light". Sometimes the available light is provided by our closest star, sometimes by a table lamp, sometimes by a strobe conveniently tucked into the camera bag. Only one of those is "natural" and I prefer to not be constrained by its availability. So I shoot only the "available" light, modified if necessary, to suite my needs.
re: Available
Rick,
Thanks for that correction. I tend to agree. This is where English as second language is a real thorn in the XXX. Sadly i can not change the poll once answers start flowing in, The title and text are fixed though.
Right now I can't afford
Right now I can't afford anything but available light and I refuse to use my on-camera flash. Otherwise, I might mix and match, but I still think I prefer available or natural lighting.
Light
Although I love available light when it cooperates - I'm still a big fan of strobes. I love being able to have exact control over where the light hits the subject. Either way, the light is what its all about!
available light
I prefer available light.. I try to avoid using flash as much as possible. Though I'd like to experiment and learn to use strobes, I can't afford them right now. So available light does just fine!
Nothing Beats Outdoor Sunlight
We have tried literaly to shoot indors with expensive equipment we bought, literaly we have used them no more than 10 times in more than 3 Years. We shoot over 230 events per year (weddings and Sweet 15's) And every single time we convince our selves that outdoor available light is the way to go.
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