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			|  | 08/20/2006 05:47:31 AM · #1 | 
		| | Hello, 
 Question. Today I was at the beach trying to photograph my friend against the evening sunset. I opened my aperture wide open, then took a reading for the sky which was basically at 1/4000.
 
 My plan was to expose for the sky, then use a fill flash to light my friend's face. Problem was, once I turned my inbuilt flash on, my Exposure time went to 1/500 and wouldn't go down any further. Why is this? I could overcome it by closing down my aperture a little, but am still not content with why I wasn't allowed to shorten my exposure time with the flash out.
 Anyway of overcoming this?
 
 thanks
 
 Julius
 
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			|  | 08/20/2006 06:05:16 AM · #2 | 
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