Finally I sat myself down to do some watermark script using ImageMagic. Again it was some hack job, I didn't know what I was doing, just to make it work. Being a no talent self important least necessary photographer, some watermarking is absolutely essential for my ego. I don't know why I waited all these years to actually watermark my images.
Almost all of my images were taken at ISO800. I found this ISO very much usable or usable without involving any Photoshop wizardry which I have none and in turn I can save on my flash power. High ISO upto 800 doesn't cost me anything. I loaded my SB-600 with fresh batteries before going to the event. I think after some three hundred shots in iTTL, the recycling time became a bit of a problem if I were to shoot consecutively in less than 3 seconds. The SB-600 performed admirably. This was the only time I shot the entire event in iTTL, almost exclusively. Not to miss any shot, I took the fresh batteries from the Metz I brought with me but didn't use, and put them into my SB-600.
... to be continued.
I used a CB min bracket, SC-17 cable for my SB-600, my usual setup. There isn't really any empirical evidence that the lighting is better this way but I just feel like this is a cooler way to shoot on camera flash. So psychologically it works for me.
And I don't put any, in my mind, silly dome to cover the flash head to make the light softer. And I certainly didn't bounce my flash as the ceiling was like 50 feet above. I just don't understand why some people chose to tilt their flashhead when the ceiling was 50 feet above. There are so many things I don't understand. The flashhead as it was, in my bare naked eye, didn't produce any hotspot on the face. Though I must say I in most cases, tuned down the the camera and flash exposure and power to minus -0.7. I always prefer under to over exposure.
