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<blockquote data-quote="Village Idiot" data-source="post: 607219" data-attributes="member: 29446"><p>Yes. Photography is about lighting. Look at the links I'm posting below.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Relying on a fast lens over lighting techniques is not always a sure thing. Plus having to shoot at 640+ ISO and f/1.8 to get a decent exposure is going to give you grainier pictures and using such a shallow DOF can really hurt photos. Plus the 50mm f/1.8 loves to hunt for focus in the dark, it's very unreliable as far as that goes.</p><p></p><p>Then again, lighting can be expensive. I've spent nearly $1000 on three flashes, radio triggers, and all the other accessories you need for this. The trick to using flashes successfully is to be able to take pictures that look like they've only used natural light. It takes a lot of time and practive to get this right, but it will make your photos look amazing.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101-start-here.html" target="_blank">Strobist blog's lighting 101 articles</a></p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/" target="_blank">Strobist Flickr discussion group/photo pool</a></p><p></p><p>Just check out some of the photos in the flickr photo pool. All of them use off camera lighting and there are some amazing photos that could not have been captured without the use of flashes and artificial lighting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Village Idiot, post: 607219, member: 29446"] Yes. Photography is about lighting. Look at the links I'm posting below. Relying on a fast lens over lighting techniques is not always a sure thing. Plus having to shoot at 640+ ISO and f/1.8 to get a decent exposure is going to give you grainier pictures and using such a shallow DOF can really hurt photos. Plus the 50mm f/1.8 loves to hunt for focus in the dark, it's very unreliable as far as that goes. Then again, lighting can be expensive. I've spent nearly $1000 on three flashes, radio triggers, and all the other accessories you need for this. The trick to using flashes successfully is to be able to take pictures that look like they've only used natural light. It takes a lot of time and practive to get this right, but it will make your photos look amazing. [url=http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101-start-here.html]Strobist blog's lighting 101 articles[/url] [url=http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/]Strobist Flickr discussion group/photo pool[/url] Just check out some of the photos in the flickr photo pool. All of them use off camera lighting and there are some amazing photos that could not have been captured without the use of flashes and artificial lighting. [/QUOTE]
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