failed or as intended?
Added 2020-11-09 17:49:32 +0000 UTCSometimes one wants to do something and fails - and a lot (if not most) of photographers will then claim that it wasn't a fail but exactly intended as it turned out - art, you know.
Sometimes I'd like to be one of those "high definition art writers" who can conceptualize a simple thing in great words and tell you a story of the big art you are going to see in this lovely little series.
But then, fact is that one of my flashes failed on some shots during this session, and what I show you here are those failed exposures where only the filling flash on the backside triggered and the main light stayed dark.
Still I think some of those failed mages are quite beautiful (actually I like them) and, if I as one of those writing artists I could present them to you as intended experiment.
technical detail:
I have a Broncolor studio flash equipment. It is so to say the Swiss made Rolls Royce of studio flashes, and I have it since 25 years. Now those flashes seem to come to the end of their life time. One flash only supports about 50 flashes, the other ones about 200 or 300, and then they begin to fail every once in a while and finally turn off completely.
I replaced them now with 3 new ones of the same Swiss brand, a really big investment, even more in those insecure times. But I hope they will serve me another 25 years, and then I'll probably be so very old and doddery that I'll die of a heart attack when such a lovely young girl undresses for me and seduces me with her wild charms - not the worst way to die, though...
But meanwhile: when you will see more failed images, it's not because of failing flashes: they were intended as such :-)
