It Don’t Gotta Be Human to Light It

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WHEN WE THINK FLASH, we think face, right? People. I mean, we grow up with parties, birthdays, and weddings where the flash is going off in our memory. Smile! Flash!

The plant don’t smile. But that don’t mean you can’t light it. In fact, in this situation you have to light it. Look at my first picture (right), which should pretty well confirm my reputation as the world’s worst landscape photographer. Indiscriminate plant at the edge of a canyon I can’t remember the name of, rendered badly. Nice!

It’s not the plant’s fault, nor is it the camera’s. The fancy-pants exposure system inside the camera ...

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