tack sharp images - help needed to save sanity.

[Michaelaw]

not buying it Michael - nope - your images are amazing so start 'splaining how you got them

I just shoot using what I think I understand about photography and there's lot's of evidence in the form of very bad pictures to show I'm still very much a learning animal I don't do well with books but seem to thrive with hands on experimentation. In the case of toddler shots my answer is this...I shoot my girlfriends grandson using an external flash bounced off the ceiling (white) with a diffuser cup mounted. I generally shoot at 100 ISO 1/100 and set the flash to fill in. Using this method, I get 80% good results and tack sharp. Hope this helps. Again I don't fully understand to the levels of Travis why this method works but have a basic idea The other thing I'm prone to doing is a lot of experimentation because this is how I learn as I said. One of the methods I used to learn going back a bit was to set my old E-500 on auto and then go over the exif data to see what choices the camera made then I sort of back engineered it to try and figure out why. Where I want to be is at a point where I always get good shots because I totally understand the medium and in that I think I'm making some headway....