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<blockquote data-quote="triedntru" data-source="post: 112343" data-attributes="member: 12840">Yeah, this is in a fixed studio setup. Here is my scenario...My boys participate in various activities...church group, cub scouts, whatever. Often I get asked to take portraits of all the children. No problem. I bring in my backgrounds, set up my lights, ready to rock.If I do it in iTTL, that's really kind of a mess in post processing. The lighting could be all over the place and I could potentially spend a lot more time editing images individually. It would be much trickier to apply global changes in Lightroom, for example.If I do it in manual, the lighting will be consistent for all subjects. The histogram will tell me if the overall image is ok, but sometimes it's hard to tell where the subject's face falls in the histogram (on the LCD, not post). So, I would much rather nail it and nail it quickly. That's why I thought of &quot;Chimp it in iTTL, dial those settings in manually.&quot; But that doesn't appear to be possible.It just seems bizarre to me that there doesn't appear to be a way to tell what power the flashes were at.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="triedntru, post: 112343, member: 12840"] Yeah, this is in a fixed studio setup. Here is my scenario... My boys participate in various activities...church group, cub scouts, whatever. Often I get asked to take portraits of all the children. No problem. I bring in my backgrounds, set up my lights, ready to rock. If I do it in iTTL, that's really kind of a mess in post processing. The lighting could be all over the place and I could potentially spend a lot more time editing images individually. It would be much trickier to apply global changes in Lightroom, for example. If I do it in manual, the lighting will be consistent for all subjects. The histogram will tell me if the overall image is ok, but sometimes it's hard to tell where the subject's face falls in the histogram (on the LCD, not post). So, I would much rather nail it and nail it quickly. That's why I thought of "Chimp it in iTTL, dial those settings in manually." But that doesn't appear to be possible. It just seems bizarre to me that there doesn't appear to be a way to tell what power the flashes were at. [/QUOTE]

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