I was also concerned about about flash exposure compensation. Like negative film, the digital chip gives me more exposure latitude than I can get with slide
film. Like slide film, if the digital chip is overexposed, the highlights are blown away (washed out). I kept an eye on the histogram for each shot to make sure I wasn't losing the highlights. For the head and shoulder portrait (above and to the right) I did not use any flash exposure compensation. Digital ISO was set to 100. For the 3/4 portrait (above and to the left)
the gown was throwing off the meter in my camera which was set to partial metering mode. I was getting underexposed photos. To get a decent histogram, I set the flash compensation to +1 1/2. With both photos, I did some
additional lightening using Levels
in Photoshop to give me a print that I liked without burning out the dress. To learn more about exposure and exposure compensation, Read my Exposure article elsewhere on this site.larger versions of both photos
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