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  1. Keith Reeder

    Would it make sense to buy a flash?

    Yep. I'm very serious (amateur or not) about light and composition - and catchlights - and I've still never felt the need to make flash part of my armoury: and yet, I do just fine. But I work very hard to be aware of, and in the right position for, the available light, and will move and move...
  2. Keith Reeder

    Would it make sense to buy a flash?

    Hmmm... That's a good point, actually: I've realise that many of the pictures I'm bringing to mind of photographers with all the flash paraphernalia attached are in places like Florida. Mind you, I've had UK Turnstones, Sanderling, Purple sandpipers and Knot come too close to focus on with...
  3. Keith Reeder

    Would it make sense to buy a flash?

    Oh I don't know - there are cases where flash has real value, and personally the extra weight wouldn't worry me too much, but I can't make the case for habitually sticking a flash and BB on the camera the way that some US photographers seem to do.
  4. Keith Reeder

    Would it make sense to buy a flash?

    You'll occasionally see them in "black holes", but it's not a routine thing over here.
  5. Keith Reeder

    Would it make sense to buy a flash?

    US photographers seem to be very keen on the use of flash, but it's something you very rarely see on this side of the Atlantic - I don't think I've ever seen a photographer in the field in the UK running a flash/Better Beamer set-up.
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