More Flash Fun on Pentax

I'm in tooooooo.

Matt,


With regards to the original post, I wonder if you can offer some advice as I think I've come across that behaviour with hss mode. I was using a Metz 48 trying to flash balance the sky with some yellow flowers during the midday sun. I had the flash in HSS mode and I was underexposing on manual mode by a couple of stops to get a really blue sky. I found that I was having to dial in +3 to expose the flowers correctly however that was really hit and miss, and sometimes I'd get a completely dark shot.

In the end, I resorted to the non hss method of waiting till evening when I could shoot at 1/180s with an aperture set for the sky to underexpose. I then dialled in the power on the flash manually.

Can you offer any advice as I'd really like to use the HSS and p-ttl for this kind of stuff but I always end up going back to manual.

Can you provide EXIF information? (Aperture, ISO) and an idea of the distance?
(Sounds like you're asking the flash to compete with a humongous burning nuclear ball )
Matt

Well, I'm still waiting for your book!

It'll be a while... up to 12 pages and I haven't even started!!
And then I'll need images too...
Matt

may I suggest you start with a shot of a fella in a raincoat (back to camera) holding his raincoat wide open (flasher style) and some people facing the camera, covering thier eyes from a bright light that appears to be eminating from the flashers mid section?

great cover shot...

Ya, MattMatics book on how to use Flash in the Raw Mode

Are you volunteering Don?

Terry - either JPG or RAW, but better in RAW
Matt

I'll do it Matt, but I'm gonna need some danger pay, or insurance or somethin.....
Won't be able to move, or turn left, or right, without knocking over a tripod, or lightstand, or somethin....

or did you mean TAKE the photo?