At 12:01 AM 6/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
At home indoors, I've been using bounce and softboxes more. The Metz is
more amenable to this than the T-32, but I have a diffuser for it too. If
the room is bigger (reception hall size) I use the Metz with softbox or a
bounce card. This tends to spread light around more and illuminate the
area more evenly. A direct, bare flash tube is harsh and produces proper
light level for a specific distance. The closer the subject, the narrower
the depth of acceptable lighting level. Similar to depth of field and how
it narrows with shorter focus distances, but with light level instead of
apparent sharpness.
If you haven't tried some of these things, you might experiment with them
to see if they help.
BTW, my most accurate flash exposures occur using fixed flash output and
an incident flash meter reading at the desired distance. Works for some
things that are more static but is admittedly impractical for candids of
fast-moving curtain-climbers and ankle-biters.
My most recent good flash experiences have been with Softbox, Lumiquest
20/80 bounce thingy, an old Vivitar 4600 flash, and a Stroboframe doohicky
that transports the flash over the lens for properly oriented
verticals. With some sort of subject, surrounded by space (which describes
a lot of things), a -2/3 exposure compensation in TTL mode seems to get
close to the mark more often than not. This is with slide film. With
negative a little overexposure is OK as is.
I suppose at least with the Softbox I should test and figure out a GN and
just use that, but it does seem like the gadgets throw one into the
vagaries of TTL, come what may.
Joel W.
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