not so much a wedding-wedding

[armando_m]

here is the thread about flash usage

http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=673.0

Cheers

[Jørgen Ramskov]

It's easy to see that they had a great time.

This also reminds me that I have promised to take some photos at some friends wedding in a few months and my knowledge of flash is about as good as yours, if not worse...I'm signing up for Armando's crash flash course immediately! 

[elsa hoffmann]

You go Jørgen

[Akira]

Very lively images!

You say you are so not a wedding photogrepher possibly because you don't like the order of ceremony which is a great cliche.  Wedding photography is important for sure, and you have a solid technique to do that, but your artistic mind keeps you from doing that...

[elsa hoffmann]

Thank you Akira

[Jan Anne]

Elsa, like I mentioned in the topic started by Armando these were my default flash settings:
- Manual exposure to control the background (try first without the flash)
- Flash on TTL to let the camera determine subject exposure
- Flash at second curtain
- Starting point with flash exposure compensation was usually -1.67EV to make things blend a little bit

So in essence you control the background exposure and let the flash figure out the subject exposure based on subject distance (this was what the D in AF-D was for), light reflection, etc.

The minus 1,67EV flash compensation was my starting point to tone the flash a bit down and was easily fine tuned with cams that have a flash compensation button, never fully got the hang to the SB800 menus because I rarely used a flash (moved to a SB400 later for the just in case situations).