It's been difficult to find the time to experiment with the flash in the past few weeks, but last night I took it out to the park and tried taking photos of the lantern festival. I put the few that I took right before the flash "stopped working" (or before I hit a button and stopped being able to do trailing curtain flash). Unfortunately everything went to hell before I was able to take any photos of lanterns, which was my whole reason for trying this setup out.
http://www.photoskye.com/gallery/3228408 Since these are my first few public attempts at flash photography, I'm looking for comments more on the flash part of the photography and less to do with how crappy the composition is (this is why I didn't mark this as a geso :), but hey I'll take all the comments people are willing to deliver. Two notes: 1) not having anything to bounce against, and not wanting to blind folks, I fashioned a stupid-looking softbox (or diffuser?) out of a large piece of stiff felt folded in half and the edges taped over the flash. The flash shooting straight up into the felt produced a lit 8.5x11 inch rectangle, mostly, although there was a brighter spot in the middle. It also made it so I had to be quite close to (within 6ft of) the subject. I do have instructions on abetterbouncecard.com, so I'll be practicing that over the next few weeks or so. 2) since my k10d's onboard camera flash gave out (it's going back for repair next week), and due to the lack of time and resources, I really haven't been able to experiment much. I *think* the softbox worked better than not having it (other than drawing undesirable attention). At the very least, I was able to avoid blinding most of my subjects that night. PS: by the way, if you get to these after Tuesday I will have added many more photos into this directory which will have nothing to do with the flash. Sorry. I'll try and remember to add a "flash" keyword so you can just search for those. Thanks for the help, --skye -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
