One advantage of being good friends with a band is that you get a lot more freedom as a photographer. Especially when they love the photos that you take of them. Last week I was up on stage with them for a while, which allowed me to actually get some clear shots of the drummer.
Last night another friend of theirs was practicing taking pictures because she has a front and backstage photo pass to a jazz festival this weekend. She was shooting with a rebel and a kit lens, and was taking pictures using the pop-up flash. I decided to try some flash photography myself and found that the best results seemed to be from using my water jug diffuser with the sides wrapped in aluminum foil so that it was more of a softbox than a photon grenade. Rather than my usual habit of using the flash in manual mode, I was using it in TTL, and I noticed that there was what seemed like a two second shutter lag. Press shutter, short wait, flash, long wait, click/flash. Is this normal? I've never noticed such a long delay between the first and second flashes before. The batteries weren't desperately low, but they weren't completely fresh either. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
