Fritz wrote: "I disafree here. With flash compensation I would be able to control how much flash I ad to the existing ambiant light. For instance, someone in the sun, will have harsh shadows. These shadows can be reduced by the usage of flash. If however, the flash has the same brightness as the ambient light, the flash will be too dominant, so I would like to be able to have less flash output with still the same correct exposure for the ambient. The result is that you still get shadows from the sun, but not too strong. Look at http://www.xs4all.nl/~wuthrich/albums/scotland/Image59.html Taken with the PZ-1 and the Metz 40MZ-2 in TTL, the flash output is too high for my taste. -- Frits W�thrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
Oh, I totally hear you Frits! Sorry, I may have written that a little ambiguously. Of course there are *many* situations where flash compensation is required, for *many* different reasons. I just meant that in regards to the *istD, if the TTL was working in the first place for "normal" shooting, you shouldn't have to *need* to fiddle with yet another setting by also having to think of flash compensation. In regards to the shot that you posted, I would have actually INCREASED the output for that one. The model is still in too much shadow for my tastes. Of course, you are dealing with the reflection on her glasses, but a polariser could have helped that. The polariser could have also assisted in saturating the background creating less contrast, BUT fill flash can have a similar effect as well so that such a bright background doesn't overexpose, and your sky and ocean would've been bluer etc, just from increasing the output of the flash a little more. Ok, so probably everyone will disagree, cause I am not very good at this technical stuff, but that is just how I would've tackled that particular shot... She is very pretty btw... tan.
