I have just shoot my first film with flash pictures with my F5 & SB 26. As it was indoor, shooting potrait pictures to my family, with tugsten light, I thougt that instead of shooting in P mode, I rather would fire in S mode at 1/250 speed, so the pictures wouldn't have any kind of "yellow" color from the tugstens. So I did it. I got great pictures, but I thing they are a slighly over-exposed, I mean, they are Ok, but the people skin, although sharp, are whiter than normal (I think). I think it could be because I set speed to 1/250, so my F5 set the aperture to maximun for each focal lenght I used (I used 24-120 f:3.5-5.6 at diffferent focal lenghts),and sometimes the face of the people was closer than the lower flash distance at that aperture (e.g.: with and ISO 100, shooting at 50mm focal whit f5 aperture, lower distance covered by the Sb 26 is 1 meter and faces of people were closer than a meter). So now come the question: Before trying some more things, I thing is a good idea setting Speed to 1/250 because I dont get any kind of yellow color from light bulbs, but as I dont want a wide aperture because of the distance, and I dont want to set aperture, so speed is set to 1/60. What about set to manual mode 1/250 and f8 or f11 depending on the distance, so I could get sharper pictures. Would F5 work properly in such a situation? (The question is related only for indoor tugsten light using flash) Thanks in advance Javier López [EMAIL PROTECTED]
