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I realize this is an old thread, but I have to ask, by sticking to manual exposure mode isn't the OP's second completely ignoring variations in ambiant light, which generally exist and have some contribution?
If you use settings like ISO 200, f/11, 1/250 indoors your background will be several stops underexposed such that the flash is responsible for almost all of the exposure. Personally I don't like that dark background look, and now you are dependent on the flash exposure algorithm to be perfect. I think it's possibly asking the camera's automation to do a complex task, but then tieing one hand behinds it's back.
Lately I've been going the other way, something like ISO 1600, 1/60th, and S or P mode so it can set aperture. This would be underexposed without a flash, but much less so. Now the flash handles the rest. I starting doing this mainly so it wasn't victomizing my subjects with a massively bright flash, but i like the fact that the background isn't unnatureally dark, and I think it gives me more consistant exposure. With my SB-800 I usually choose TTL-BL. With my SB-700 it chooses TTL-BL in matrix or center weighted mode, and TTL in spot mode as other people have said. I'm almost always using bounce mode off the ceiling if there is a ceiling to use.
Just my 2cents worth.
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