Tan, After 6 pages of the thumbnails being unusually large (in file size) they settled down to around 2kb, so I've been able to breeze through the whole collection of thumbs looking for the rotten exposures. But nothing was as bad as you suggested, instead I simply found some of the images showed dull lighting of the subjects against bright sunny backgrounds. The problem seems to be, as others have already noted, that the flash being used is just too weak to brighten the subjects enough.
The answer is simple, if you're working without an assistant and quickly you need a majorly powerful flashgun. If a Pentax isn't powerful enough then get another brand, and if no P-TTL gun is powerful enough then it'll need to be an oldfashioned onboard-auto flashgun. If you can live with fully manual power setting then there's some really powerful stuff out there. OTOH if you want to get creative with reflectors you need to hire an assistant, otherwise settle for a much slower and lower workrate as you wrangle the reflectors yourself. My own opinion in the "blown highlights" debate is that although it's most desirable to have ideal exposure in the area of interest, some parts of the frame that are beyond the field of interest can be let blow out to white or sink into blackness if they can't be helped. Just so long as the paying customers and their guests are in the ideal exposure zone. When printing time comes around just find the maximum value that gets a little density to the paper (say 245 or 250 on the 0-255 scale of each 8 bit channel, or whatever you like the look of) so that it still looks white without actually being the blank paper base. regards, Anthony Farr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Farr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tan, > I'd like to see your exposure problems but with 21 thumbnail pages to > preview first, and on a dial-up connection, it would take far too long. Can > you nominate a few problem images? > > As an aside, I find that your thumbnails load very slowly, and when I delved > I saw that they ranged in size from about 25kb to 50kb for 50 x 75 pixel > images. That seems a tad large considering that the pug standard is 75kb > for an image that is 500 pixels on its longest side. Your clients might > appreciate quicker loading pages, too ;-) > (snip)
