 Jenee Straub |
Hazy Indoor Flash Shots I recently purchased a zoom/directional flash for my Canon Elan 7 SLR camera. I've had mixed results with the flash, with the most common problem being shots that turn out "hazy", grainy and washed out. I've not been able to pinpoint the source of my problem, be it film speed or the angle of the flash (e.g. where the light is bouncing off of). I can scan in a sample bad shot if it helps. Flash: Quantaray 6600 Series
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
sounds like under exposed. go ahead and put a photo up.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Yep, under exposed. They were printed lighter to try to be able to see the dog better.
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Jon Close |
Definitely underexposed. Just need to figure out why. The QAF6600 should function with automatic TTL flash metering with your EOS 300. In the first photo there appears to be reflections of a bright light in the (cute!) puppy's eyes and on the wall behind, so I'd guess that the flash fired, but it could be just the room lights. The photo's severe underexposure looks like the camera was set for flash (high shutter speed of 1/60 and aperture of either f/4, f/5.6, or f/8) but then the flash didn't fire, or fired at a very low power. Do you remember the camera settings for these photos? Mode, shutter speed, aperture, film used, etc. One possibility that could cause this result is if you had mistakenly overriden the ISO setting on the camera to be higher than the film's rating, for example ISO 100 film loaded, but the camera set for ISO 800. The second photo doesn't show any evidence of the flash (no shadows behind the fence. Either the flash didn't fire, or you had the head tilted up as you pointed the camera down, which (with no near wall to bounce the light back) would put the light from the flash completely out of the picture.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Looks like you bounced the flash off the ceiling but kept the aperture at the same if you shot it straight on. I can see the reflection in the eyes of the first picture of the flash going off and a little bit of shadow. That's because you got a little bit from being level with the puppy, but not enough for a correct exposure. The second photo, since you're shooting down, it looks like you bounced the flash again but you got must of the light going forward and up. I can see on the plastic thing you the puppy's sleeping in that there's some highlights on the sides of the little openings. If you bounce a flash on auto, it'll automatically shoot with more power, but that may not be enough to keep the aperture the same because it depends on how far away and how reflective the ceiling is. So you may have to open the aperture up along with it.
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