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26-MAY-2005 Robin Reid

May 27: Birthday Dinner

Carmel Mountain Ranch, CA


My good friends Tom and Maggie Crane took me Café Luna last night for a very nice birthday dinner.

Normally I’m not hot about flash shots, however in this one, just sitting across the table from them, I thought the image came out well. No harsh shadows etc.

We had an engaging conversation, and you can see they are having a fun interchange here. The traditional picture of me with the candle in the cake is ***here.***

I want to thank everyone for the warm birthday wishes. I felt touched by your reaching out.

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
1/60s f/4.0 at 17.0mm iso400 with Flash full exif

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Guest 29-May-2005 02:36
Oh yes it is a cool use of flash. I don´t like to use the flashh too, eventhought sometimes it´s useful and works nice
CJ Burianek29-May-2005 02:18
Very nice flash shot! I too am not fond of flashes... This turned out nice though!
Di28-May-2005 04:30
Great shot, Robin. Sounds like you had a great birthday, I'm glad!
Elaine (etfitz)28-May-2005 02:26
Wonderful portait! It looks like they are enjoying the conversation!
Karen Leaf28-May-2005 01:49
At least they appear to be listening to one another ;)
Good job with the flash Robin, the b/g is sufficently blurred not to distract and there is nice natural shadow and light.
Pepe Zyman28-May-2005 00:23
Go ahead, make my day!
Guest 27-May-2005 23:58
Nice job!
Gayle P. Clement27-May-2005 23:49
They look like fun people to be with. I love the natural expressions you always manage to catch.
Coleen Perilloux Landry27-May-2005 23:00
Very well done.
Stu27-May-2005 21:11
Nicely done, Robin
brother_mark27-May-2005 20:51
Yep, a nice flash on camera shot. Did you bounce it? I find the bounce with diffusion dome really helps with indoor flash.
laine8227-May-2005 20:32
The flash worked perfectly. You caught their animated conversation.
JeremyGood27-May-2005 18:43
Good flash shot Robin. It looks like he's trying to be serious and she's not.
Zak27-May-2005 18:28
sounds like you all had a good time :-)
Dan Chusid27-May-2005 18:06
We missed you at the meeting last night but looks like you had better things to do. ;^)
Herb 27-May-2005 17:40
Glad you had a nice dinner.
Cliff27-May-2005 15:46
This is great. You are right - the flash handled this beautifully.
Gary Winters27-May-2005 15:31
What a coincidence they both have the same last name! (LOL)
Guest 27-May-2005 14:52
Very intense gazes, and a good fill flash job..