On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:11, Christine Nielsen wrote: > 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? >
Much my experience as well, sadly. I think the problem is that we're using Pentax gear. :-( k7 is much BETTER than the K10D for this kind of thing, but it is still far from perfect. I have the same combo with the same problems. -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.
