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[thxguy]

Hi Folks- wondering if this group can help with what went wrong- I took my D7000 and SB600 to take a quick night time group picture of neighbours - When I took the pic, I put the camera on Auto- (did not have my glasses and did not want to be fiddling with settings) I proceeded to take several shots- but every one was totally dark, and useless.  I could see the flash going off; but still *DARK* pictures. 

When I put the flash on the camera, I am pretty sure I had already turned it on; so plugged it live into the hot-shoe.  

 

I have attached 2 pics, one that had the issues I describe above, and then one where within a minute I took another one- but no clue what was different between the 2 - aside from one was correctly exposed, and one is clearly not - seemed like the flash was out of sync with body somehow?

 

​I have no idea what went wrong or what I did to solve it - looking to a community that may have some insight - 

 

Thanks in advance!

 

James

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[mikew]

Welcome, just a guess but the one showing the fence looks like the flash exposed as best as it could for the fence,the other one looks as though the flash may not have been fully charged.

[TBonz]

I don't see the ISO listed but I could have missed it.  The focus location is different as well which may cause the flash to fire for a shorter time (or longer time based on the distance).

[thxguy]

Welcome, just a guess but the one showing the fence looks like the flash exposed as best as it could for the fence,the other one looks as though the flash may not have been fully charged.

This left me scratching my head too - the flash definitely went off in the one that is totally dark, and it was a brand new set of batteries and it was totally charged..

Wondering if my putting the flash on the hotshoe when it was already on was a contributor.....

 

Thanks for the thoughts