Hi everyone, Thanks so much for advice and suggestions...
Firstly to Anthony - I am so sorry to have put you through that! lol. I was about to post and say to you that the thumbnails are only 2k in size and I went to my server to realise that I had uploaded the large images into the thumbnail gallery! And also to anyone else who tried to view those pages, what a nightmare it would have been! BUT, I can confidently say that I have fixed it now and that the thumbnails are indeed 2kb in size with the large images ranging between 18kb and 50kb each...! Next to Bruce - I probably should have explained a little better. My AF360fgz is still in the repair shop since my little tripod accident a few weeks back. I have been shooting with the Sigma EF 430st and the Sigma EF 500st. Like Bill Robb, I gave up shooting TTL with the *ist D about five minutes after I received it and have been shooting using M mode (manual exposure) and just using the flash as fill. This is tough with these two Sigma flash guns as you only have the option of either full (mh), 1/16th (ml) or ttl. So half the time, if I use MH I get too much output, and the other half, if I use ML, I get too little. Yes, I did shoot high res jpegs for that particular wedding, as at this stage I only have 2gbs worth of CF cards in total. What I have been doing is switching to RAW where I think that an image needs help or if I expect it to be enlarged alot, but unfortunately, when shooting on location, quickly, at a wedding, it is very difficult for me to shoot RAW and continuously download pics to my laptop. For all of my portrait and other work I am shooting only RAW, but with weddings it just takes up too much room.... I have the camera set to low contrast and low saturation. Bruce you asked what my flash settings on the camera were? I am unsure of the answer to this? I didn't know that I could control the flash from my camera? Are you talking exposure compensation? Cause if that is the case, there is none as I was shooting with the flash manually rather than TTL. I hope this is making sense...lol. A few of you have suggsted that for this shoot at least, I should go back to shooting the film as I know it and the cameras better. BUT, I really want to "stick at it" as I am sure there are ways to get around the problems that I am having and secondly, one of the reasons I got this shoot in the first place was my ability to shoot it digitally and offer them proofs almost immediately. Also, I loathe the thought of having a $2k camera that is sitting there collecting dust, I really want this thing to earn its keep and so I must learn how to use it properly... Heaps more to come, but just gotta wade through the rest of the responses, I had a shoot this afternoon too, so working on those at the moment... brb, hooroo (love that Trevor! lol), tan.
