I've been practicing with the flash lessons. Not hard core or anything but trying to make myself exercise the muscles. These two shots are a good, simple comparison. The top one uses no flash at all. The bottom one uses a little flash (on camera flash set to, I think, -3.0 flash compensation). It's an entirely different quality so it may just be a matter of opinion but I'm OK with that. If you think it's just an opinion thing then please show your work if you can. I think if the subject had been alive there would have been a clearness to the eyes with the flash which would have been preferable. Only one way to know for sure, I'm going to have to keep practicing.
Okely dokely, so, which do you prefer?
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I prefer the flash-less one, hands-down.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the one without the flash. The one with the flash makes the lion look like plastic and the hairs in the mane look less defined.
ReplyDeleteI also like the top one best. The texture and shape of the lion is more defined.
ReplyDeleteIf it was a picture of a live human I'd probably have a stronger opinion. They both look fine to me, and as you said, there's a different quality to them both.
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