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Went down to the south coast this weekend, stayed two nights in Ulladulla which has a very nice little bay and breakwall...

And VERY bright sunshine, so used fill flash to expose my two favorite models and avoid washout on the wash

and yes... cant wait for my LSII to arrive!

MHD,

You have done a good of balancing the background to the foreground there. I would be interested in the technique that you used.

I get good (and consistent) results by spot metering the background in manual mode and then setting FV from skin for foreground exposure, but sometimes I feel that I am under utilising the cameras capabilities.

Cheers

Matt

Scott, think that is a very effective use of fill flash. Perfectly applied

MattC wrote:MHD,

You have done a good of balancing the background to the foreground there. I would be interested in the technique that you used.

I get good (and consistent) results by spot metering the background in manual mode and then setting FV from skin for foreground exposure, but sometimes I feel that I am under utilising the cameras capabilities.

Cheers

Matt

It was all done manually
Turned camera to A mode with matrix meter, that told me the shutter speed for the apeture I wanted to use... Turned to M mode dailed up the settings and turned flash on, picked about what I thought to be the power, shot, checked highlights, re adjusted, shot again (ended up being about 1/4 power from memory)

Thanks,

Cheers

Matt