Nice shot. I'm not a particular enthusiast of wildlife photos, although I like to see them and do some occasionally ... more often birds and water life, rarely insects. -- Responding to Igor:
With my DS, I found the meter calibration generally required +0.5-0.7 EV compensation when capturing RAW format for accurate density with an 18% grayscale reference card. I find my K10D to be more accurately calibrated, requiring at most +0.3 EV but within range to use 0.0EV and get the appropriate number. Looking at this scene, I would have wanted to add an additional +0.7-1.0 EV for ambient exposure as the scene's average reflectivity is significantly higher than an 18% gray. +2 EV ambient exposure comp seems a little high, especially when coupled with the -1.5 EV flash fill. But the photo looks fine, without highlight saturation and includes a full tonal scale. I'd chalk the settings values up to individual camera body and flash unit variations in calibration. I've not used the AF540FGZ flash unit so I don't know much first-hand about how the ambient metering system and it work together. Godfrey On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > I like this very nice shot, Alastair! > > I have a question (for you and whoever else would want to comment > on it). > I understand that -1.5EV flash compensation is for a soft fill-in > flash. > But what was the reason for +2EV ? > > Recently there was a brief discussion here (I remember Godfrey > participating in it) that some cameras tend to underexpose. > Is that +2EV to compensate for the inherent underexposure? > > Igor > > > > On 09/01/08, Alastair Robertson, wrote: > >> http://www.pbase.com/image/91434888. Well 8 actually but 4 big ones - >> nice eyelashes too. >> >> An afternoon potter on one of the local beaches turned up this >> little fellow. >> K10D FA100/2.8 AF540FGZ F22 125th ISO100 +2EV Flash EV -1.5 Handheld >> These types of shots are my typical fare but mostly I have posted >> PESO's that are a little different and perhaps less successful. >> I am interested what people think of these macro nature shots. Not >> many on the list post those types of image it seems. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
