I like some of these shots, but you're right, they are flat and overexposed. You may have had too much ambient light. Your exposure setting should be a stop or two below ambient. For example, if the ambient light gives you an f4, 1/30th exposure, shoot at 5.6. 1/30th. Then the flash will be the main light and the ambient light will be fill. That's how I shoot most of my indoor flash pics, and it appears to be what Christine was doing. What's more, I shoot everything in RAW. Flash pics usually need some rendering help. These could have been greatly improved in conversion. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "David J Brooks" <[email protected]> > 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.
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