How to Light a Fence

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A FENCE IS JUST A FENCE...unless you have an SB-800 AF Speedlight.

Flash has always been painful, right? Especially painful in the cold. Really, really painful in the kind of cold that exists in Yellowstone National Park in January. Batteries dying, trying to work the camera, work the flash, meter the sky, meter the flash, meter your diminishing heart rate....

Now we have wireless flash! Pretty fancy stuff. Cameras and flashes keep talking to each other, even when you can’t say a bloody thing ‘cause your teeth are chattering like Carmen Miranda’s castanets.

I shot this first pic (page 74, top) available light, ...

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