On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:33:19 -0800, bud kuenzli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
also, keep in mind that the camera and flash think that white dress is a grey dress. It will attempt to expose the white dress (assuming it is the predominate area you are metering) as if it were a medium grey dress. If you are getting a dark dark dress there is something wrong, but if your exposure results in a grey dress and your exposure is about a stop to a stop and a half dark, then you are about in the right ballpark. That is what the fel button is for, so you can do a flash exposure lock on a medium grey area, then recompose and shoot. Or, knowing that the white dress is about a stop and a half off, dial in compensation.
Color of the dress was ok just the overall scene was dark whether it was of bride/groom or scenes from the dance floor of people dancing.
Another thing to do is to focus, set the camera to manual
focus and then shoot. In manual focus, the camera won't use the focal point for a flash exposure lock and it will average the reading more.
this is something that I had fogotten about being able to do. Suffering from CRS again!
I assume that if camera is in manual and the flash is in manual then there is no metering or averaging going on?
That won't stop it from looking at the over all scene as grey, but it will help if you have a focus point on a white object with a black object next to it.
this is what the ETTL II is all about...it does a better job of averaging the exposure and doesn't rely on the specific focus point for flash exposure like ETTL does.
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