I have adopted a new mantra - I can only keep practising and wrap my head around it. Maybe someday, some day, I will get it, after all.
I had this image in my mind this evening when I stumbled upon my son's sudoku board and counters. I had planned to use the overhead light and then use fill-flash. But I did learn something though - my YN460 for some weird reason, flashes optimally when it's powered down to about 1/8. When I need full power, it somehow drops off at the back! That's kinda strange, or I am missing something, somewhere.
Anyhoo, I tried different power levels, with the overhead light and without it. I honestly think that I prefer the images with the tungsten glow in it, rather than with the flash. In fact, the one with the fill-flash is possibly one of the better shots. Out of the 60 odd shots I had, I came down to keeping about 15 just so I could study the settings later. But the ones I handpicked for this post were 4 - just for records.
This one is SOOC - no overhead light
55 mm, 1/200s, f/16.0, Manual exposure, pop-up flash at +2/3 stops, ISO 100, external flash at 1/8 power, above camera to right of frame
SOOC - overhead light with fill-in flash
1.0s, f/29.0, EV -1, pop-up flash +2/3 stop, ISO 200, Aperture Priority, external flash at 1/8 power held just above camera about 2 ft. above the subject
Selenium Filter applied in LR3 - lit with overhead light only
55 mm, 1.6s, f/13.0, ISO100, Aperture Priority
I'm glad I could get rid of the colour cast in this last one! Phew!
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