No problem about the spelling, I just find spelling mistakes, especially of my name, annoying.
Sorry if I sounded negative before, but a shot like this isn\'t difficult if you approach it the right way.
You have a happy child in front of you, sitting in the leaves obviously enjoying herself. Pointing the flash directly up into the tree will be of no help whatsoever. In fact, without looking at the EXIF I would say the shot hadn\'t been flashed at all, so therefore your flash has put absolutely no light down on your subject at all.
I doubt even using the flash at 45 degrees with the bounce card out would have helped that much either in Av mode, to get the benefit of it, exposing close to the ambient light in manual and letting the flash figure it would in auto would have been a better bet and you could adjust the FEC according to the \'look\' of the image you are after. Triggering the flash remotely (with the flash located more at the girl\'s level than the level of the tripod) could have helped as well, or bouncing the flash directly off the camera and having someone hold a small portable reflector angled down at the girl. Whichever way you do it, your focus point must, and I do mean MUST, be located on your subject for this kind of shot.
Nov 21, 2008 at 12:44 PM
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