Just a quick one:
I was shooting a quinceanera this weekend, that was held in a large ballroom. To help with some of the dancefloor shots, I had a second flash on a small stand that was bouncing extra light off of the ceiling to help me get better exposure in the dark and large room. The way it works is pretty simple; when my main flash on my camera fires, it sends a radio signal to he other flash to fire at the same time.
I noticed a young girl (9 years old?) was staring at the flash that I had sitting on the table, and realized that she didn’t make the connection between the flash going off, and my camera. As far as she could tell, it was just some sort of bright flashing light that randomly went off. She would run over and grab one of her friends and tell them to watch the flash. I was standing right behind them, just a few feet away and was getting a bit of a kick out of watching them trying to figure out the flash.
I find that observation really interesting. Perhaps they thought it was like a “hidden” camera and wanted to secretly be photographed. Who knows, but I think it’s interesting that it caught their attention. Maybe they thought it was some kind of “CSI” undercover surveilance like they see on t.v.
Cute.