LOL.  His face just doesn't say bad.  He's a good looking kid.  I'm
surprised we haven't seen more pictures of him before.

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Here's a head-scratcher:
>
> Tonight, I was shooting senior portraits of my son.  We had gone out
> to the track at the high school, a place he holds quite dear, for the
> occasion.  As the evening grew darker, I had my flash (540) set up on
> a stand & softbox, firing with the camera's wireless remote system.
> All was fine, more or less, for several minutes.  Until the camera
> stopped shooting.  I would press the shutter, and I'd get a flicker of
> light (focus assist or pop up flash signalling the 540?  not sure..),
> but the shutter wouldn't fire. Several times I would re-focus and try
> again, but nothing.  I tried the following:
>
> - turning the whole thing off & on again
> - turning off the focus assist light
> - setting the AF to release priority, instead of focus priority
> - using manual focus
> - turning off flash, shooting manual exposure mode
> - shooting in Av, Tv, Tav, P and AUTO
>
> None of these got the shutter to fire.
>
> We packed it in for the day, and when I got home, 20 minutes later, I
> tried the camera again.  Worked fine, in Av, M, Tav, etc... though I
> didn't try it with the wireless flash again...  Mind you, this whole
> shutter mechanism was recently replaced (6 months ago) at CRIS.  So,
> I'm thinking I must be doing something wrong, or at least missing
> something.   What do you make of this?   Any thoughts?
>
> Lastly, just for fun -- a peso.  My son, Nick, from tonight.  Looking
> as bad as he is able...
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028562@N04/8018036378/in/photostream/
>
> Thanks in advance--
> :)
> -c
>
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