shake
if ur taking portrait... mana ada shake?
the person will be sitting/standing still for the shot?
the shake only happens when the subject moves.. OR u move..
so if the subject not moving but u still got shake then that means u dont have steady hands.. kalau tangan tidak stabil, flash besar mcm lori pun tetap akan ada shake juga, rite?
alternate solution: tripod?

blur
how can the pic be blur if u make the focus right?
focus at the eyes.. using AF or MF

lose skin tone
this one.. haiyah using flash can easily overexposed..

conviction: (verdict ala new style)
ReasonOfThanatos, i suggest u buy flash, but if u think prime the best for you, then go for it.. its your money and ur style of photography!
jimlim007, go practise more.. dude...

A850/A900 wireless flash requires either a F58 or F20 on the camera.
So would you waste one F58 on camera? That F58 can be used to add light in the scene, if you had a F20.

You can shoot lwliam's avatar using two cars parked opposite each other, with their headlights on. Then he just needs to kneel down.

marauderz: I would go F58 first, then F20; if not people will end up blaming the F20 when they find it doesn't have enough power. (Of course, a high ISO and bright aperture helps.)

I sent my F56 pouch for modification - added a belt strap. No problem!

Seng_Kiat: Flashes are portable don't you forget that. However studio lights have modelling lamps which can be turned on all the time. That's really all the difference there is to me.

v1rtual:

The diffuser is always halfway so that there is still some surface area in the 75 degree position (forwards is considered 0 degrees.) If you bought the original Stofen, it would come with a piece of paper that tells you to always put it up 45, 60 or 75 degrees (forgot which).

It is underexposed in direct mode because your camera is set to ADI (flash power is based on lens focus distance.) You need to change it to Pre-flash TTL (flash power is based on whether the pre-flash is too weak or too strong.)

Kul | Mo0: I wonder if jimlim007 meant the Sony 300mm F2.8G SSM. Hmmm, primes are technically constant aperture! Though not truly constant because it can go from F2.8 to F4 to F5.6...

There is only one true constant aperture lens, if you take the meaning literally - the Sony 500mm F8 AF Reflex lens. It's F8, and it can't stop down.


Sony 300mm F2.8G SSM versus Sigma 300mm F4.0 APO Macro.

hahah, sometime ppl reply to several post, it would be spanning really long. well sometimes there are ppl having personal chat with each other with publicly,

as for the question  u ask albnok (i am busybody) ur flash still too strong. sometimes ur flash can fire at 1/64 where ur manual setting cant reach but ur flash can (that what i was told long time ago, forgot by who, i think is albnok) if u wan to capture ambient light, use larger aperture, like F2.8, the light around will be absorbed or higher iso.

hokc77: wahhh very nice, i always wanted to shoot something like this...

very tired

Finally have sweet time with my camera. Today is strobist session.
How was it?




Yeah now giving them 'bath' before another session