Another morning of waiting for a customers work to transmit on my stupid dial-up connection...country life does have at least one drawbwack...still better than driving to the city though...

Anyways...the other thread got me thinking...about when not to flash...

It amazes me to go to a concert or sporting event and see all the flashes popping. If I could say one thing to all those people it would be this:
Your little flash unit CANNOT light up the entire stadium. In fact if you think of your pocket flash like a pocket flashlight in terms of how far it'll reach. All you are doing is limiting your shutter speeds, and washing out the detail in the people sitting directlty in front of you. Face it there's always a bald guy in front of you whose head is going to give off so much glare that you might as well be shooting into the sun. Please turn your flash off, use your spot meter, and adjust your WB, shutter and iso settings to get the most of the light thats on your subject. More often than not the stage/stadium lights are plenty bright for available light shooting even if you are sitting in the dark.

Think of it this way...

you are standing outside at night. looking at the moon. Basically you're on the dark side of the planet with the sun to your back, and the moon (no lunar eclpise) is sitting out there in full sunlight. Sunny 16 rule applies. (with my 500mm f4 that means: iso 400, f16, 1/500s, (most people do not expect the moon to look like a rock with lots of craters or detail, so opening up one more stop to make it brighter and whiter is a good idea.).

Fire that same shot with your flash on and you'll get a white dot against black or grey sky because the shutter sync speed will cause over exposure.

There's a difference between "NEED" and "WANT"????
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Bent or corroded baterry contacts on the camera or charger?

not only helped, but inspired...
now making an adapter for an old eleincrom radio slave, and a remote light beam trigger .
bursting balloon shots...next month.

I live near "Winterpeg" Manitoba.
I asked about the birding, because I live in a nice country locale and was thinking about setting up a heated bath and feeder outside my window, and webcasting the bird activity through my website. Sort of a birdwatchers voyour cam. Will call it "Bird on a Wire".
I'm not really into birding, but hey, they're there, and some people who are into birding might enjoy popping into my site from time to time to watch them.

I think it's really great.
The old posts from this forum really helped me learn it fast. and I just used it to shoot some corporate xmas parties, last one this past sunday.
Indoors and out doors at about -20 c it was flawless.
Saw your signature comment about birders are you into bird watching?

Hey guys, I found an old thread the other day on making cable releases.
I got a stereo jack and my old cable release from my mz5 and made a new release for my ist ds2. Works great, and wanted to say thanx.

My significant other, my hienie, nad to be honest it was a self assignment of made up products and spoofs of products I did recently.
Objective was to produce a portfolio to show local ad agencies. Yes lots of research....lol...javascript:emoticon('')

I like beer.

Actually I was trying to be funny....it really s a great site.