Mike Hamilton wrote: >I've done a portraiture course, but don't have a lot of experience >working with my AF360 flash in dark situations. I struggled all >night. Out of the 113 photos that I snapped, about a dozen were >useable.
Just in case you ever need to know, here's how you do it: Camera set to *manual* exposure Aperture set for desired DOF Shutter speed set to minimum hand-holdable speed or for brightest area where you'll be shooting -- whichever is greater Flash set to P-TTL auto, no exposure compensation With this setup, you'll be using ambient light to the greatest extent possible and the flash will add whatever extra light, if any, is required. I did some weddings with a very high-dollar pro here in Pittsburgh a couple of years ago (used my ist-D and Sigma EF500 DG Super) and don't think I had a bad exposure in the lot (though there were plenty that didn't measure up because of *photographer* error!) The pro I was working with used Canon gear, but essentially the same configuration of manual exposure and auto flash. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
