over exposed flash

try using a 80/20 and decrease flash by -1 1/3

I'm not an idiot. The question here is to go against the normal thoughts of correct exposure to the likes of your customer

enginyr wrote in post #7603886
Dragging the shutter just means using a longer exposure time which I think sucks since you can always add blur to the image. My goal is to get the sharpest picture possible and go back and add what ever effects possible. This photographer got "lucky" with a shot like this and I can create this shot 100% of the time in Photoshop.

My question was..... If people want over exposure...Do we give it to them at the risk of peers saying it's over exposed.

Yes, you can achieve most effects in photoshop...eventually​. The best part about dragging the shutter (used by every professional I know, and not by accident or luck, either), is that your subject remains in focus while the rest of the image doesn't, and it takes less than a second! You can get that effect in Photoshop but why spend so much time in front of the computer if you don't have to? I shoot about 1500 images per wedding and if I had to 'fix' every image in Photoshop I'd be out of business (cuz I would've jumped off a ledge long ago).

When I first began using my 580s (both the EX and the EX II), they would occasionally over-expose so much the image was almost all-white. That's when I cleaned and tightened the contacts on the hot shoe and did a quick-study on FEC. That was over 200 weddings ago, so it seems like it never happened, but I understand your frustration.