Make the Available Light Unavailable

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WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? Why would you go from the safe haven of light you can see, touch, and feel into the mysterious, uncertain, and quite possibly dangerous land of flash? That’s like sailing across eel-infested waters and then climbing the cliffs of insanity! Inconceivable!

Think of it this way. That available light is available to you, for sure, but then again, it is available to everybody. You can make a picture that will look kind of the same as the guy next to you, and kind of the same as the guy next to him. Then all of you submit those pictures to the same magazine, or agent, or stock ...

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