Model Behaviour

Alex Mustard · Issue 10, Dec/Jan 2002 · pp. 42–45

Products mentioned: Canon EOS 500, Nikon F100, Nikonos V, Subtronic flash

Imagine if your best friend went to their local branch of Toys “R” Us and bought a set of wax crayons and a colouring book! Stranger still when they got home they proceeded to fill in the pages, exactly as instructed. Always using the right colour, never crossing the lines. They claim they have produced a masterpiece, but are they really exercising their artistic creativity? It is safe to say that Vincent Van Gough has little to worry about. Now imagine that your friend is into SCUBA. They have bought an underwater camera and a strobe. They have been on an uw-photo course. They want to photograph a diver. So they give their buddy a torch, find a bit of red coral and position their buddy in front of the sun. Just as they have been taught. They press the shutter. They have done everything right. Electronics motors wurr, computer chips do their magic: TTL quenches the strobe and the shutter…