What could go wrong ...
This was a test
Glad I checked my screen when I started shooting for a possible My Final Photo at Generations' annual student photo shoot yesterday.
I’m there to get my daily fix of a good news feature photo showing interaction between dancers, teachers, helpers, and the pro photograhers who shoot this massive arrangement of backdrops, strobes, computers, display screens, and dancers from toddlers to young adults.
The pros were shooting electronic flash for even, accurate lighting. Being an old news photographer I shot available light. The available light was fluorescent.
Fluorescent light oscillates in color and intensity. We don’t see it as our eyes and our brain fortunately blends it together into a more pleasing average view.
A quick check confirmed my 1/250 shutter speed would catch the banding of color and intensity in the oscillating lights. The lights flicker from the 60-cycle alternating current.
Switched to a slower speed that let the flicker blend into a cohesive, single light. That eliminated the color bands but required me to make sure I hit peak action to prevent motion blur.
This what I wanted to shoot.
That overexposed, solid white streak across the bottom third of the top photo. That’s the electronic flash from the studio photographer. An added bonus. It’s art!
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Happy to see that Amy Sancetta is included in CNN’s Pioneering Women of Photojournalism. She is one of several AP photographers included in the list. She was in New York on 9/11. She’s part of the AP Pulitzer team in 1993. She’s made photos at the Buckeyes. She lives in Cleveland.
The Royal Television Society named AP journalists Vasilisa Stepanenko, Mstyslav Chernov, and Evgeniy Maloletka, in their award ceremonies after the team spent 20 days documenting the Russian bombing before they were helped to escape in fear of Russian soldiers targeting them.
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