I'm glad that I was just doing this for fun, and not trying to make a living at it. I saw how hard Mark was working. I was just taking the photos that looked fun and interesting to me.
I did stay out of Mark's way. Most of my chatting with him was simply because he was an old friend, not because he was the photographer. I am growing a deep and abiding hatred of the Pentax flash system. The locking lever on my 540 has broken, yet again. It seems to work, in that it'll rotate from side to side, but it doesn't actually lock the flash in place any more. The P-TTL would massively underexpose any shots that had a bright light in the background. If I tried to put the flash in manual and set things the way I wanted to, it would just ignore me and go back into P-TTL. Interestingly, I was having a similar problem with a promaster flash not staying in manual mode the other night, which makes me think that it may be a camera body, rather than a flash thing. Some of the problems were alleviated when I put the flash on the bracket and used the sync cable instead of mounting the flash to the shoe. However, the head doesn't hold itself tightly enough in position, and when I have my diffuser on it (bigger lumiquest), if I moved the camera into portrait mode, the head was likely to flop down. I didn't pull out my monopod, and I lost a lot of my available light shots due to camera blur. I did manage to get a few decent shots, nothing that I'm particularly happy with. It was good practice, I've learned how much I need to learn. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
