Recent content by olive99

Thanks to all for their thoughts. This is the first time I've used this forum and it's great to have everyone's input. Raising the ISO is something I must remember to consider in these flash situations. Have been investigating fast wide angle prime lenses too. The 24mm f/1.4 canon lens looks...

Who?, the hall curtains were closed. It was an event at a school. I arrived mid-assembly and I wasn't able to change the set up...

Steve, Thanks that's reassuring... sort of. Should I have metered the ambient light in a different way to achieve a more even result? Or should I have underexposed the flash, used EV-1 or similar? In this situation there was no possibility of multiple flash heads

Sorry, Haggis, it's a typo. I meant 430EX

How do you light a school assembly in a darkened hall? The ambient light was too low to hand hold so I was forced to use manual flash. Using ETTL metering my flash lit up the first few rows of children, the kids towards the back of the hall were visible but the lighting was very uneven. My...