JCO posted: > I think the lighting in the sample portrait at > http://www.dardeno.com/profile.php can be easily duplicated using a > PZ-1p with a AF500-FTZ bounced off the ceiling or through a diffuser > combined with the RTF flash. I'm not sure how you'd do that with the > *ist-D because I've never been able to mount the 500FTZ and use the > pop-up flash at the same time --- it won't fit.
Do you mean using that setup in Contrast-Control mode, JCO? I have used the 500FTZ plus built-in flash on the PZ-1 to photograph a group; bounced the FTZ off the ceiling and used the RTF for fill (in contrast-control mode). I think it worked well. In any case, hypothetically, you could use a bracket for the 500FTZ and the requisite adapters (hot-shoe adapter Fg and sync cord), using contrast-control mode so that the bounced 500FTZ is your main light and the RTF your fill or perhaps (I haven't tried this) the 500FTZ on the bracket in slave mode, in which case you would not need the adapters but of course could not use contrast- control, and since I haven't tried this I don't know if the lighting ratio would be messy in that case. The bracket was quite inexpensive. The adapter and cord, not so inexpensive. Although I did photograph a family group indoors with the setup described by JCO and in my first paragraph, I don't recall if I used the bracket. I have one, so I well might have, but of course on the PZ-1 you can use both the RFT and the hot shoe at the same time. For size reference, the family I photographed contains six people. So that's something else to consider, Amita, as well as the excellent-if- possible outdoors idea (RTF can be your friend there) for the group, and either outdoors or window light (with reflector) for the individuals. Good luck in any case! Oh, and perhaps you might try a favourite trick of mine, if using flash to photograph a group: I tell them when to BLINK! and shoot right after they open their eyes from the controlled blink. I get FAR fewer accidental blinks in photos that way. ERN
