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Posted: **Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:53 pm**

Final one for tonight - we've been camping this weekend

Played a bit with the settings on the SB800 flash, and am becoming more and more happy with the results:

http://sheepie.smugmug.com/gallery/498009/1/20370992/Large

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:21 am**

That's a great shot Sheepie - you've really nailed that SB800. The balance between the flash and light thrown by the sparkler is fantastic.

As a relatively new owner of said beastie, could you enlighten me ('scuse the pun) as to the settings you used?

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:57 am**

Thats like seeing it through the naked eye! Great shot, well done. I'll have to get me one of those!

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:26 pm**

Great lighting balance sheepwana. Well done...

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:06 pm**

Great light balance. What were the settings on the flash?

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:07 pm**

PiroStitch wrote:What were the settings on the flash?

OK - this is a bit from memory and a bit from the EXIF (although the EXIF reckons it was with the built-in flash, but I'm sure it was the SB800!)...

Shutter Priority, 1/2 sec
Handheld, 50mm 1.8 D @ F/2.8
ISO 200
Rear Curtain Flash Sync Mode
Flash Comp -0.3EV

Pretty sure the flash was set to iTTL, but the EXIF has me confused.

This is a crop of the original - the full frame has more of the background in it (which I tend to do on purpose - you can always crop, you can't replace something that isn't there!).

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:02 pm**

Thanks for that Sheepie. It will be added to my rapidly expanding SB800 knowledge base. :wink:

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:31 pm**

great pic and nicely lit ....

have you tried playing with repeating flash and waving the sparklers around ?

Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:12 am**

sheepie
kool shot!

would have been kool to see an abstract, more macro shot of the sparklers tho...maybe witht he boy's hands

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Playing with Sparklers and the SB800

Playing with Sparklers and the SB800