Two journalism

Antonio Correia

I think the flash is still too present ... Don't you ?

System

yours, or theirs?-

you might want to check out the lightsphere http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=32563--

nice photo-

george

Seefutlung

You called that one right Antonio ... an obvious flash on the two journalists. Also your horizon is tilted.

nikos

Antonio,

I checked your exif and saw that you had the camera in aperture priority mode. Unfortunately, Av mode is better used outdoors for fill flash. Indoors, it does poorly to correctly expose your subjects. If you look at the shutter speed, the camera also chose a very slow 1/40s setting which would blur the subject if it moved.

Next time you shoot indoors with the 20D, try these settings to take full advantage of ettlII with your flash.

Camera mode - Manual
Shutter speed - 200
Aperture - choose your depth of field
ISO - 200 - 400
The flash will provide the correct amount of light to properly expose the image. Even if you add a lightsphere or a flip-it diffuser, the flash will automatically compensate.

HTH,
Nikos

Antonio Correia

nikos wrote:

Antonio,

I checked your exif and saw that you had the camera in aperture priority mode. Unfortunately, Av mode is better used outdoors for fill flash. Indoors, it does poorly to correctly expose your subjects. If you look at the shutter speed, the camera also chose a very slow 1/40s setting which would blur the subject if it moved.

Next time you shoot indoors with the 20D, try these settings to take full advantage of ettlII with your flash.

Camera mode - Manual
Shutter speed - 200
Aperture - choose your depth of field
ISO - 200 - 400
The flash will provide the correct amount of light to properly expose the image. Even if you add a lightsphere or a flip-it diffuser, the flash will automatically compensate.

HTH,
Nikos

you are absolutely right.
I did wronge. I really intended to use manual.
If I was using aperture priority you told me now...
I thought I was using Manual. That's why it is not very good !
Thank you for the tip.
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=33703
Have look

Antonio Correia

Seefutlung wrote:

You called that one right Antonio ... an obvious flash on the two journalists. Also your horizon is tilted.

May be the horizon was not tilted.
The guards up there were not 90 degrees ...
Or may be you're right ...
I think it is not very relevant in the picture.
Do you ?

Antonio Correia

gefillmore wrote:

yours, or theirs?-

you might want to check out the lightsphere http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=32563--

nice photo-

george

I have already been there.
Thank you for the tip anyway.
And... the Lightshere is a drag to travel with... Is is not ?
Can't be bended, doesn't fit in the bag, in the luggage compartment of the plain becomes quickly damaged ... :

System

if they had a bottom to it you could carry your snacks in it!-

I noticed one of the photogs in your pic has an omnibounce-

have you tried it any?-

george

Antonio Correia

gefillmore wrote:

if they had a bottom to it you could carry your snacks in it!-

I noticed one of the photogs in your pic has an omnibounce-

have you tried it any?-

george

Good ideia: food inside the Lightshere ... With grease ... eggs, bread... bear :
I do use a Stofen "condom" on the flash like the one the journalist on our left has. He uses Nikon as you can see. The other uses Canon like I do ...

System

do you like the stofen?-

if so, when do you usually use it?-

Antonio Correia

gefillmore wrote:

do you like the stofen?-

if so, when do you usually use it?-

I bought the flash back in September 2005.
Since then I did not care much about it.
BUT, when I read the tread I told you somewhere I began (to begin, began, begun).
I use it all the time. I can't tell you if whiout it it is better or worse.
But (another but) I think - not triyed yet) that whithout it the light does not spread that much.
I usually use it 90 degrees from the horizontal.
I'll be shouting a baptism - is this correct in english ? - next saturday.
I have been to the church and made some shots.
With bouced flash I'll have something like this

Antonio Correia

I want to climb to a chair - you can see it at the picture - or higher and take pictures from the top.
From the saint's point of view ... :

Antonio Correia

We can´t get this without a flash :
Or can we ?

Gary this is for you.:):
It is not perfect. No it is not.

System

nice photo of the church-

it's 'shooting a baptism'-

thanks for the info, antonio-

george

Antonio Correia

gefillmore wrote:

nice photo of the church-

it's 'shooting a baptism'-

thanks for the info, antonio-

george

Of course: shooting a baptim not SHOUTING
Even better: taking pictures of a baptism. Right ? :