Mayan near Tulum
This gentleman is a Mayan near Tulum in Mexico. Him and a partner were dancing and putting a show on for us touristy sorts. I shot the photo with a f90x camera on Fuji Velvia 100 ASA film and scanned it using a slide scanner. I thought about putting the whole image on, but I kind of liked the framing with the rule of thirds—body line in a third, arm swinging down a third, and the head dress on a third. I just love shooting with fill flash. For those of you who don’t know what fill flash is, quite simply put fill flash is a simple way of adding light to a picture which doesn’t need the extra light but will benefit by having it. Basically what you do is set your camera (film or digital) up so that you have a nice low aperture and a shutter speed to allow the right amount of light in to give the picture a normal exposure. Then, you turn your flash on. When the flash fires, it adds just a hint of extra light to the picture. This does a pile of things. F