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02/16/2008 04:56:40 PM · #1 |
Today I visited a local 'sea-world' aquarium. Basically all types of shark, fish, lobsters, star-fish etc. in giant tanks at eye-level. There were notices up at a lot of the exhibits saying 'No Flash Photography' so I decided to whack the ISO up to 1600, lower the shutter speed, and just turned the flash off for the afternoon.
After about 30 minutes one of the staff approached me and told me flash photography wasn't allowed. I told her I wasn't using the flash. She said, but you've got light coming out of your camera. Turns out she was talking about the focus light! - So I flicked focus to M and she seemed happy enough with that.
Meanwhile, a P&S-er standing next to me was busy blasting the sea horses with their on-camera flash. |
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02/16/2008 05:08:11 PM · #2 |
On-board flash and glass aquariums don't exactly work out for good photos anyway. You were better off turning it off.
Seems kinda odd though that she singled you out for your AF assist light though. But, also, you were better off in manual focus, since the AF can be fooled by reflections on the glass.
My guess is the P&Ser will be quite unsatisfied with his/her photos.
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02/16/2008 05:08:52 PM · #3 |
| Well the person who was using their flash probably has a bunch of shots with a great big white flash in the middle of it. So they broke the rules and paid for it with ruined shots. |
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02/16/2008 05:16:06 PM · #4 |
Yeah, in fact I found using available light gave a much nicer effect. But only for the slow-moving fish! I found manual focus a bit of a challenge though.
A few minutes later I saw the same staff member feeding the sharks in the shark tank. She had to tell a woman to stop putting her hand in the water. This woman was actually leaning in trying to touch the sharks while they were snapping their jaws shut about 4 inches away from her hand.
Darwin awards. |
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02/16/2008 05:36:54 PM · #5 |
| She should have just let the woman continue trying to pet the pretty sharks - would have saved a bit on shark food for the day. :-) Reminds me of a lecture we had once about rattlesnakes - something like 95% of the people bitten by rattlesnakes were either trying to catch it or pet it. Why?? |
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02/16/2008 05:40:43 PM · #6 |
Shark bite photos would have sold well to local newspapers and as stock :-D
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02/16/2008 05:41:56 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by jhonan:
After about 30 minutes one of the staff approached me and told me flash photography wasn't allowed. I told her I wasn't using the flash. She said, but you've got light coming out of your camera. Turns out she was talking about the focus light! - So I flicked focus to M and she seemed happy enough with that.
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LOL, I had the same thing happen to me in the vampire bat room at the Philly zoo. |
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02/16/2008 05:54:57 PM · #8 |
Some Museums have sensors and if you use flash a recorded message plays reminding you that flash photography is not allowed. I had it happen to me once. At first I thought some one across the room was telling me not to use my flash until I realised I was alone in the room. Got a little freaked out at first, But then had fun tripping the recording a few more times before I moved on to the next exibit.
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