OLI Photography

So I have gotten a flash.  Yes I know you are at the edge of your seat to hear about it.  The flash is pretty cool.  It has all of the usual abilities: TTL, manual, wireless.  Additionally, it has enough power to blind you or any other poor sap who is unfortunate enough to be staring into the business end.

Overall I have not had a whole lot of direct flash usage with it.  The first photo shoot was done with this flash as one of the 2 strobes and it worked swimmingly.

I have, however, discovered the entertainment that is canon flash (I have mainly been playing with natural light).  Unlike my other cameras, in Apeture and Shutter modes the metering goes off the BACKGROUND.  So on other cameras where the metering pulls off the subject, my canon basically pulls off the background to determine how long the shutter should stay open.  This was quite a shock to me and took some adjustments.  I understand the ideas more now thanks to the dbreview forums and the digital photography school forums.  The camera is better at assuming you know what you are doing which is why the first few shots were completely white.  Just remember kiddies that better equipment often assumes you are a better user.  Don’t let your camera down.