WARREN CONNECTICUT – Looking through my collection of camera gear I noticed an Olympus flash unit that I had bought a year or two ago because it is compatible with my Leica. It’s been pretty much unused because I prefer the available light with the Leica look. The flash unit, it turns out, is fully compatible with my Panasonic GH2 – the through-the-lens metering works perfectly and (unlike the Leica) it is reasonably fast. I ‘m not great at on-camera flash so I decided as an exercise to do some landscape with it. Here’s an example for Warren. The idea was to use the flash to balance the lighting of the tree trunk, which is under large evergreen Euonymus branches and is thus dark, with the house. The lighting in this photograph is actually too balanced to be pleasing. The quality of the images from the GH2 continues to stun me.
On this day last year: Roger Standt’s workshop.
