cetacea
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I am going to be taking some team and individual pictures for my daughter's soccer team soon. I have been practicing with her and some of her friends recently to try and perfect the technique. The pictures will be taken probably around 4 or 5 pm and I am not counting on a cloudy day. I have been reading that it is possible to take pictures in direct sunlight with the subject between the camera and sun, then use fill flash to get rid of any shadows. I have tried this a little, but not getting great results. I am using a Canon T1i with a Canon 28-70L f/2.8 lens. My flash is the Canon 580EX II, using a sync cable I have the flash on a bracket which takes it off the hot shoe, but not completely away from the camera. What is the best settings for using fill flash? Using ETTL, the camera sets the shutter to 1/200 and then I set the aperture to what I want and I have stopped the flash down 1 and even 2 stops using flash compensation. The pictures that come out of the camera are completely blown out if I use f/2.8. I would like to use a wide aperture to get the background to be blurry, but at f/2.8 and 1/200 WITH flash, that is just way too much light. Is there a way to do this and still have a wide aperture? I can't meter without flash and then set the camera to those settings in manual mode because as soon as I turn on the flash, the camera goes to 1/200 (the flash sync speed for this camera). Any ideas on how I can achieve this to take some decent pictures of the team and individuals?
Glenn
Glenn