The ABCs

IN THIS SET OF PICTURES, I practice what I preach, almost to the letter. These frames came together calmly and in orderly fashion, which is a rarity, of course. It was like a school lesson, and I followed the syllabus to the letter. I’ll keep it quick and simple, like the pictures.

I got my angle. In this instance, it was a 200mm point of view (POV) into a blank wall in a warehouse. In a situation like this, with a great deal of control and a static subject, once your POV is established, it can be advisable to lock the camera down on a tripod. Then, there’s a continuously definitive point of reference that you go back to in between frames. In doing this, you eliminate a very big variable—you. I firmly believe one of the frustrations people feel about TTL inconsistency is that they get unraveled at the camera. They’re uncertain of the frame from the get-go, so they try a snap, and it’s bad, so they try going wide, and of course that’s bad too—and even more frustrating, the flash result is different than their original....