Quotes by Rick Sammon:

Basic Guidelines for Fill-in Flash
1. Set your camera on manual, set the exposure for the scene manually
2. Turn on your flash
3. Begin by setting flash exposure compensation to 1 2/3
4. If the subject is too dar, increase the exposure too light, decrease the exposure.
The idea: Fill in the Shadows – don’t blast subject with light!

“I always choose the lowest possible ISO setting for the cleanest possible picture”

“Trying to tell the whole story”

“I always shoot everything horizontaly and verticaly because I don’t know what I gonna like better and I don’t know what an editor is gonna like.”

“Dead center is deadly in landscape photography”

“Always think about the end result”

HDR (High Dynamic Range)
1. Put your camera on a tripod.
2. Leave the F-stop the same.
3. Change the shutter speed and take exposures of all the different brightness level in the scene.

Quotes of Rick Sammon:

"The main subject in every picture is the light"

"I always try to shoot tight because: The name of the game is to fill the frame"

"I always expose for the highlight"

Definition of a good picture: "If you capture the light and you have a good composition and a good subject you have a good picture"

"When you take a picture think about the end result. It’s part image capture and it’s part digital dark room work."

"I use a small F stop, and I’m focusing 1/3 in the scene."

"Just because you have an autofocus camera, it doesn’t mean the camera knows where to focus."

Rule to photographing people: "If the eyes aren’t well lid and not on focus you missed the shot"

"This is how I get a daylight filling flash picture: I set my camera on manual, I dial in the exposure for the existing lightning condition, turn on my flash and set the exposure compensation to -1 and 1/3. That’s where I start. If the picture is to bright, I’ll dial down the exposure a little bit."

"The only time I’m using manual is when I’m doing flash"

"I do the head shot, I do the head and shoulder shot, do the three quarter shot and do a full length shot and if I think it is important I go in for the details."

"Detail-shots really sell (as stock photos)"

"The background is just as important as the main subject."

…to be continued, bin erst mit Lesson 5 fertig.