Advanced: Fill and Balance

I fell madly in love with balance flash for this assignment, to the detriment of my potential fill flash skills. Both of the techniques are excellent solutions to photo lighting problems, but I have been driven crazy by blown-out skies and shadowed foregrounds for long enough that mastering balance definitely took priority for me. Fortunately, neither fill nor balance is particularly hard to control, so I’m pretty sure that I can get more of a hang on fill in the weeks to come.

That said, I’m not completely happy with my select because it’s weak in terms of composition, and because Akyra, the girl who works in the Tiger Team Store trailer, was wearing dark clothing that did not stand out so well from the dark interior surroundings. Crap.  (And, as always, the color loses its saturation when I upload to WordPress. How do I get around that? Help, please…)

On the plus side, though, I am getting much more comfortable using my flash, bouncing it around, and learning when to dial up and down. Success is slow, but I’ll take it.

Akyra Davis (left), a senior at the University of Missouri, works a shift the Tiger Team Store trailer during an MU baseball game against Oklahoma on April 4, 2009. The trailer is located outside of Taylor Stadium, and offers fans the chance to buy Mizzou gear before heading to the game.