Jeez, Dave, you gave the equipment just about the most difficult possible conditions. Let's see... bright sun streaming through a window, sunbeams surrounded by deep shadow, a cat with white fur on her chest, sunlit snow through a window...
I think that the exposure of the cats in 1203 and 1226 are spot-on. 1208 and 1238 have the flat look I associate with bounce flash with no direct flash or a fill card. 1205 and 1214 strike me as almost impossible to do well. Pull out the Nikon stuff and do it again under the same conditions, and see what you get. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sun, 1/4/09, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > Lucy and Boo were in a more then normal play mood yesterday, > so i > thought this would be a good time to get the K10D out and > try some > bounce flash, using the recently suggested settings, and > hoping to get > something close to Christine's examples. > > http://web.mac.com/barnyardcam/iWeb/Site/K10D-AF360%20Test.html > > Again disappointed in my results. Even thought the > histogram shows up > well, they all look washed out and flat to me. > > All were in bounce mode except those noted as direct. > Number 1229 and > the shot of the bush are in direct flash. No matter what i > did with > the shots of the cats in the bay window, i could not get > them lit up > well. I used manual mode in all, and the cat shots in the > window were > exposed for back ground, flash in HS mode, but it still did > not throw > the kind of fill light i had hoped for. > > K10D, AF 360, 77Ltd F4, Tv 1/30-1/60 except for cats in > window, were > Tv is around 1/2000. > > Any helpful tips would be appreciated. > > Oh, ambient light is from a southerly bay window, with some > sun > streams in 1 spot. > > Dave > > > > -- > Equine Photography > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > Ontario Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
