Quote Originally Posted by Rodger


They look great. Honestly. I never would have guessed you picked up that light only a few hours before hand. I'm assuming you're working with it on camera which is cool. Off camera comes later


Right off the bat, it looks like you know what you're doing. (which is good because I don't know what I'm doing half the time! haha). I see no hard shadows which leads me t believe that you bounced the flash off the ceiling or wall. (I'm betting on wall, because I see some variations in the light gradient from side to side. Let me know if I'm right! )


Hi Roger! Thank you. Yes, they're on camera. Off camera will definitely be my next target. Well, I really don't know yet what I'm doing but reading a lot of things in here (TDP) has helped me a lot grow in this hobby. As I am unable to finance yet myself to go and take some classes, my motto is to read, read, read, practice, practice, practice, read, read, read..


For the first photo, I believe I bounced it off from a ceiling not too high but was on an angle towards the subject. The second photo was bounced of from a wall. Color of wall cast its color on subject.


Quote Originally Posted by Rodger


The posing is nice in both photos too! It's hard focusing (pun very much intended) on more than one aspect of a shot at a time. My posing went to crap when I introduced intentional lighting to my shots.


I did find it a bit hard to take good photos as I was thinking too much. I mean, I have to consider additional factors like how much light should be thrown (though I believe E-TTL did that for me) unlike before when I think of compo, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, direction of ambient light. Oppsss.. let's not forget about focus.


It was a nice experience to just jump into the water and learn to stay afloat.


Thank you again, Rodger for your comments.


-- Angelo