Photo situations that leave me wondering (Page 2): The ultimate? I don't think so. How about the dozens of tourists taking flash pictures of Mt Hood at dusk, from 60 miles away in...

Jesu S

drmike99 wrote:

The ultimate idiocy is someone with a point and shoot or camera phone taking flash pictures of fireworks!

The ultimate? I don't think so. How about the dozens of tourists taking flash pictures of Mt Hood at dusk, from 60 miles away in downtown Portland?

drmike99 Loc: Fairfield Connecticut

Jesu S wrote:

The ultimate? I don't think so. How about the dozens of tourists taking flash pictures of Mt Hood at dusk, from 60 miles away in downtown Portland?

Well yeah for distance, but I was thinking more of the idiocy of trying to light up light with light.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Pegasus wrote:

Just before Christmas, my family and I went to the... (show quote)

Kodak was always happy to sell film to people who wasted it. Labs used to send back bad prints with "Subject Failure" stickers on them. That was their polite way of saying, "Hey, you didn't have the right settings here..."

Smartphones often have ignorant users. When in doubt, Read The *Fine* Manual... or find a book explaining it better.

banster Loc: PA, Ontario, N.C.,Key West

Mannheim Steamroller and Trans Siberian Orchestra are two completely separate shows by two unrelated groups. I have seen both, several times. It’s like The Rolling Stones and the Beatles, not Rolling Stone Beatles.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

At a shutter speed of 1/100 sec light will travel 9,835,710.56 feet. So all that flash light can get to thr falls and get back. But the light energy absorbtion by air and water vapor wipes out the effect, Also the beam diverges going out and coming back, makes things worse. But the more you fire the flask the more you wear it out and the sooner you buy a new one. So you are helping the economy and might that not brighten any pictures.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

John_F wrote:

At a shutter speed of 1/100 sec light will travel 9,835,710.56 feet. So all that flash light can get to thr falls and get back. But the light energy absorbtion by air and water vapor wipes out the effect, Also the beam diverges going out and coming back, makes things worse. But the more you fire the flask the more you wear it out and the sooner you buy a new one. So you are helping the economy and might that not brighten any pictures.

And light dissipates proportionally to square of the distance - so a flash which produces adequate light at 20 Ft would provide 1% of that at 200 Ft - and a lot less than that at a mile.

Robert Bailey Loc: Canada

Someone has already mentioned the Olympics. I wanted to add that at the opening
and ending ceremonies you will see thousands of flashes going off to capture performers
who may be a thousand feet away.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

Pegasus wrote:

Just before Christmas, my family and I went to the... (show quote)

Either that or get smarter people to operate the smartphones!

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Yep!

rehess wrote:

And light dissipates proportionally to square of the distance - so a flash which produces adequate light at 20 Ft would provide 1% of that at 200 Ft - and a lot less than that at a mile.

IndyBob Loc: INDIANAPOLIS

I saw a fellow taking a picture of an electrical tower from about two miles away. It was nighttime and his flash went off. I didn't say anything to him. Then he turns and takes a picture of the full moon. Again the flash goes off. I said to him, "I don't think your flash will help you with that." He turns to me and said, "Couldn't hurt."

Pegasus Loc: Texas Gulf Coast

IndyBob wrote:

I saw a fellow taking a picture of an electrical tower from about two miles away. It was nighttime and his flash went off. I didn't say anything to him. Then he turns and takes a picture of the full moon. Again the flash goes off. I said to him, "I don't think your flash will help you with that." He turns to me and said, "Couldn't hurt."

That's when you walk away slowly, and then run like heck.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

IndyBob wrote:

I saw a fellow taking a picture of an electrical tower from about two miles away. It was nighttime and his flash went off. I didn't say anything to him. Then he turns and takes a picture of the full moon. Again the flash goes off. I said to him, "I don't think your flash will help you with that." He turns to me and said, "Couldn't hurt."

Hopefully he was kidding and just too lazy to turn the flash off. If not, the suggestion of turn and run may be more appropriate.