Comments on: Friday Night Lights http://alittlenews.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/friday-night-lights/ The Blog For Small Town, But Not Small Time Photojournalism Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:24:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Jeremy http://alittlenews.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/friday-night-lights/#comment-807 Jeremy Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:25:19 +0000 http://alittlenews.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/friday-night-lights/#comment-807 I'm glad I'm not the only finding the TTL mode on my Nikon to be all over the place! Thanks for the great blog. I've been learning a lot. Please keep it up. I’m glad I’m not the only finding the TTL mode on my Nikon to be all over the place!

Thanks for the great blog. I’ve been learning a lot. Please keep it up.

]]> By: Dick Bolton http://alittlenews.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/friday-night-lights/#comment-70 Dick Bolton Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:40:47 +0000 http://alittlenews.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/friday-night-lights/#comment-70 I've had frustrating experiences with flash automation on digital cameras, just as you describe it. My old(?) Nikon F5 and SB-28 flash were perfect and reliable by comparison with the digital systems. I theorize tha the digital systems go nuts trying to figure out stuff like white balance. Thus the wacko inconsistencies. My solution for night HS football has been to set the camera (D2Hs or D1H) on "Manual" exposure mode, about 1/250 sec at f/2.8. ISO is around 1000. The white balance is set for flash. The flash (SB 800) is set for A-TTL-blah-blah-blah. Shooting with a 70-200 AF-S etc. Nikon lens. Flash is mounted via the camera hot shoe -- no fancy cords or brackets. Results are generally OK at most "shootable" distances. Using a Nikon SB-8A battery booster pack with the flash, and when the action is fairly close, the flash sometimes will halfway keep up with the camera in Continuous-H exposure repeat mode. I use rear-curtain synchronization to put any ambient light-caused exposure streaks or blurs "behind" the action. Sometimes the effect even enhances the sense of speed. Mostly this setup yields ugly photos from a lighting standpoint. But it does allow me to bring home the bacon in the form of usable action shots. DB I’ve had frustrating experiences with flash automation on digital cameras, just as you describe it. My old(?) Nikon F5 and SB-28 flash were perfect and reliable by comparison with the digital systems.

I theorize tha the digital systems go nuts trying to figure out stuff like white balance. Thus the wacko inconsistencies.

My solution for night HS football has been to set the camera (D2Hs or D1H) on “Manual” exposure mode, about 1/250 sec at f/2.8. ISO is around 1000. The white balance is set for flash. The flash (SB 800) is set for A-TTL-blah-blah-blah. Shooting with a 70-200 AF-S etc. Nikon lens. Flash is mounted via the camera hot shoe — no fancy cords or brackets. Results are generally OK at most “shootable” distances.

Using a Nikon SB-8A battery booster pack with the flash, and when the action is fairly close, the flash sometimes will halfway keep up with the camera in Continuous-H exposure repeat mode.

I use rear-curtain synchronization to put any ambient light-caused exposure streaks or blurs “behind” the action. Sometimes the effect even enhances the sense of speed.

Mostly this setup yields ugly photos from a lighting standpoint. But it does allow me to bring home the bacon in the form of usable action shots.

DB

]]> By: sixteenfeet http://alittlenews.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/friday-night-lights/#comment-69 sixteenfeet Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:21:44 +0000 http://alittlenews.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/friday-night-lights/#comment-69 Dave, You know I am all for clogging the sidelines of every event with dudes holding flashes. That will allow us to blast away willfully at obtrusive TV camera guys. Too bad you can't do this to those guys who stand in front of you at Div I games. Coz Dave,
You know I am all for clogging the sidelines of every event with dudes holding flashes. That will allow us to blast away willfully at obtrusive TV camera guys. Too bad you can’t do this to those guys who stand in front of you at Div I games.
Coz

]]> By: Dave http://alittlenews.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/friday-night-lights/#comment-68 Dave Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:42:04 +0000 http://alittlenews.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/friday-night-lights/#comment-68 If I ever get a free Friday night I have plan (yes another one) for getting TTL to work. It involves 2-SB800s and someone willing to hold a flash off camera. I realize the odds are against this working...but just as my wife is on a life quest to find "the winter flip-flop" I am on a quest to make digital TTL work on a high school football field. If I ever get a free Friday night I have plan (yes another one) for getting TTL to work. It involves 2-SB800s and someone willing to hold a flash off camera.

I realize the odds are against this working…but just as my wife is on a life quest to find “the winter flip-flop” I am on a quest to make digital TTL work on a high school football field.

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