Posted By fixpixel:

Does it mean Adobe is going to release whole new creative suite package before 2009 ?

Posted By ChristianNasca:









You are thinking too complicated. It is actually much more simple:





FEV can be set either on the body or on the speedlite. The setting on the body is only effective as long as the setting on the speedlite is FEV 0. In case the FEV setting on the speedlite is different from 0 (no matter + or -), it will override the FEV setting on the body. This has nothing to do with the EV setting. You should decide whether you prefer to set FEV on the body or on the speedlite. Setting FEV on both body and speedlite at the same time will provide predictable and consistant results, but you might get confused by the two settings and get a result which was not what you wanted.





Regarding FEV and EV setting at the same time there is no overriding what so ever. What might have caused your confusion is that you took a picture with EV -1 and FEV +1 and what you got was an over exposed picture, so you assumed FEV had overridden EV. But it's not like that. The settings do coexist peacefully in the camera. But depending on the actual circumstances of the scene you are photographing the result may look like FEV has overridden EV: If EV is set to -1 but FEV is firing a powerful flash and the location you are shooting allows the flash to illuminate the whole scene you will get a brightly exposed picture because physically light "overrides" darkness on the sensor, no matter where the light comes from (flash or ambient light). In the OP's example this will never happen, because the depth of the lobby is so extended that the flash light will not reach the far end, let alone the exterior beyond the door. So the exterior exposure will be fully controled by the Exposure Value EV of the camera (which is aperture x shutter speed). While these exposure settings are set to suit the exterior exposure, they will lead to plain darkness inside the lobby. This is where the flash comes into action firing a burst of light that will sufficiently expose the interior, no matter what. Nevertheless the exterior will not be over exposed by the flash, because it is so far away. This is really the typical occasion to play with EV and FEV simultaneously.





Now shortly back to basics: A compensation (EV or FEV) to a negative value gives you an under exposed, dark, low key picture. A compensation to a positive value gives you an over exposed, bright, high key picture. - We all know that. So now here comes the clue: By setting different values for EV and FEV you control the balance between ambient light and flash light which both contribute to the overall exposure. The two values do not necessarily have to be + and -, it is enough if they are different from each other (for example EV +0,7 and FEV +0,3). Like this you can control whether you will have more warm tungsten light or more white flash light in an interior setting. You can also shorten the shutter speed by shifting the exposure a bit more towards flash light. Or like in the OP's example you can completely separate indoor and outdoor exposure: Think of it as if the FEV setting was a dimmer for the flash light inside the lobby and EV a dimmer for the sun outside.





This has nothing to do with i-TTL or E-TTL II. It is a principle as universal as Av and Tv mode in photography.





Damn, how I hate those long and purely technical posts...

Posted By olandesina:

On the suggestion side: Sometimes I forget to add the model release to a file. Would be possible to have a visual reference of this whithout having to open the image itself? Like an extra column in the image list where u see what images have model release and which not?

idea about adding UBB in description: What about to have a column where to add the UBB code per image? The content of this column could be merged to the content already present in the description field of each image before to upload. Would be this easy to implement?