Last night, I attended a "portrait workshop". We were shooting at the beach, at the end of the day. It was still very bright, and in the shade of a lighthouse, some fill was required on our models' faces. No problem. I had the AF540 on my k-7...using aperture priority mode, and -1.5 Flash EV, I took some shots. Gah. Way overexposed. I fiddled, set the flash to high-speed sync, and tried again. Still hot. I proceeded to try several other manipulations... none really working, until I settled on a fully manual operation for exposure, and flash (1/16).
It shouldn't have to be this way, though, right? I should be able to use pttl to provide (more or less) the right amount of fill, yes? I'm even pretty sure I've done it successfully in the past, though it would have been with the AF360. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, -c -- 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.
