On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:12, eckinator wrote: > Could be - I was trying to combine an underexposed image and a flash > set to overexpose to freeze movement. I will post a pic. I am not > happy with the result yet in many ways - the motion freeze effect > isn't strong enough - af540fgz can only overexpose one stop - the > foreground looks grey and washed out because I am shooting handheld > and I think it was a slightly foggy day - but you may have a point =) > I was entertaining the foolish notion actually that the camera would > do as I say... silly me...
It will - especially if you use manual mode (on both the camera and the flash, maybe even). Then it won't try to "help" you by, for example, only overexposing by one stop. Just requires some experimentation. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.

