I'll admit, i was not totally paying attention to the M scale, but i did on a few.:-)
I was adjusting the shutter as Christine was doing, but i get what you are saying. I looked at the histo's for each, and they showed up as decent curves. Perplexed now. These are jpg's right out of the camera, into iweb, no adjustments. Thanks for taking the time for the comments. Paul Dave On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:33 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
