K10D jpegs will be somewhat flat if you haven't turned up contrast, sharpness and saturation in the menu settings. It's just the way the camera is calibrated. I have to shoot jpegs for my real estate VT panoramas. I believe I'm up two notches on all of those settings on my K20D (I'll have a look to make sure later today), and the results are nice and in the normal range. Paul
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "David J Brooks" <[email protected]> > 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. -- 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.
