Hot Shoe Flash Photography

Hello, everyone!

I have a problem with off camera flash. When I shoot with it, I always wind up with frames where the subject is WAY to blown out, the frame it white, ect...

I have tried all the settings I know how, from Manual, (adjusting the shutter, Ap, ISO all the way around with no good results) Program, Ap mode with nothing close to good. I even thought with turning the power down on my 450 EX flash, putting a gary fong collapsable diffuser on it, it's still too harsh.

The only thing I can figure is distance, but I just need some help with OCF...

Thank you for taking the time to read/comment...

How are you triggering the flash?

Cowboy Studio trigger and reciever

Okay, so you know thats a manual set of triggers. Your flash needs to be in M mode, (not slave mode) and then you adjust the power using the ratios.

I have left the slave mode off and the setting on E-TTL is that my problem?

Yes, in ETTL mode off camera with manual triggers its going to fire full power every time. Switch to M mode and then dial in the power you want 1/1 is full power 1/2 is half (duh) goes down to 1/124 I think on that flash. To use ETTL mode you need a different triggering method.

Okay, thank you so much for the info!

Good luck and enjoy your new toys.