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I did not use flash. The pro on my left side did. I caught his flash on 1/250. We obviously found the same moments interesting, but 1/180 is supposed to be the fastest flash sync on the E-400?
(Shooting RAW is nice when this happens. The boys had an unhealthy over-exposed pale skin color in the JPEG from the camera.)
I just realized, that I never tested two A-mode flashes (each flash has its own sensor). So, I just did this. My flashes don't have 1/2 or /1/3 stops in A-mode, so I used full stops (I could have cheated the ISO setting, though). The test shows, that TTL provides more accurate and more pleasant exposures IMO. Please note, that the A-mode shots show MORE FILL LIGHT, which is detectable if you look at the background. If I were to use A-mode, I'd probably decrease the fill light, instead of increasing the key light! One sensor in the camera is better than one in each flash (not a huge surprise :-) ) No editing was done (JPG's), except crop and resize.
I believe that the test furthermore shows, regarding the TTL samples, and compared to my previously posted image of the boy: Using a steep horizontal angle of the key light - towards a "rim light position" - calls for higher + compensation for the key light. This can be explained by the fact, that a key light in a steep position hits less of the background, thus reflecting less light back to the sensor. In the samples with the ball 0 or +5 looks good. The boy (almost rim light) needed a + 1.5 correction. SO the difference between key and fill should be somewhere between 0 and +1.5 (apr. 0% - 300%).
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this was weird. my finger accidentally covered most of the flash bulb, so only the tip of the pylons had the light hit them. Then in photoshop I did a simple automatic levels correction (nerd talk), and this is how it turned out. It desaturated everything but the flash area.
Reminds me of a mountain range at dawn, the way the sun strikes the peaks with light.