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Howdy all,
Having got the SB800 last week (early birthday present thanks to my beautiful wife), we were playing with it and the Metz tonight. These shots were all taken with the SB800 on remote with the inbuilt flash as commander and the Metz behind the very badly placed backdrop. This is the first time I have really played with off camera flash, so I would love everyone's feedback, although there's no need to mention that the backdrop is crap 
(the 'model' is my wife, Alicia) 
Thanks Patrick
second shot looks overexposed, or light is just going directly into the camera.
I'm intending to get a sb800, one thing i wanted to know is, does the inbuilt flash need to fire to trigger the sb800. My inbuilt flash is dodgey and wont register thats its popped up and i didn't want to have to send it back to hk just for that, but may have to if it needs to fire to trigger the flash. Simon
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Thanks for the feedback Obzelite - I agree the second one is washed out a bit.
With the pop up flash in commander mode, it will fire some pre-flashes to communicate with the SB800 off camera (it's an ancient dialect  ). You can set the inbuilt flash to not actually fire when the shutter fires (use the -- mode). So, if the pop up isn't firing at all, then you may have a problem.
Cheers P
Here's another one from last night...I think I like the lighting better here - the SB800 is on the camera and the Metz is to the model's right shoulder.
C&C very welcome P
Quick question what shutter speed and aperture? Also any flash exposure compensation (e.g. +/-)?
D3 | 18-200VR | 50:1.4 | 28:2.8 | 35-70 2.8 | 12-24 f4
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Justin, shutter speed was 1/200th, aperture was 2.8, no flash compensation, 400 ISO.
Cheers P
There is high contrast and I was wondering what would cause this. So to soften the shadows you'd need less light and perhaps more 'ambient' than flash... perhaps 1/125th, ISO 100 / ISO 400 and -1.7 or -1.3 on the flash?
I also got my SB800 last week so excuse my forthright comments I am trying to put it all together... D3 | 18-200VR | 50:1.4 | 28:2.8 | 35-70 2.8 | 12-24 f4
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