For Nikon's Flash System: http://nikonclspracticalguide.blogspot.com/
I'm sure you've read Keith's "Understanding and Controlling Exposure" in this site. Find out where's Zones V and VII in your D7000's light-meter using spotmeter when shooting in 14-bit NEF. The fun is when you're the artist and not the camera.
Nikon's Focus System is very fulfilling - you'll be very unhappy if you don't master it.
In photography, there is no reason to "disconnect" capture, postprocessing and ouput (print or web).
Chris,By the way, I really like your "first pic" above. Nice light, beautiful skin tones and color rendition and nice and sharp.KeithBy the way, I think you'll find the "sweet spot" for the 50mm is between f2 and f4.
Keith, you said in the comment on the out of whack picture, " Do you have the RGB histogram option turned on? "I figured out how to turn it on in playback. Should I be able to turn it on in the viewfinder? I haven't found any info on that yet. I know I can turn on the histogram in the viewfinder of my canon but it is an electronic viewfinder just like the lcd on the back of the camera, only smaller.
Chris, Yup, I saw both ("Out of whack" and "Fixed") and until now I'm still trying to figure out how the D7000's matrix metering system, in Aperture priority mode with no exposure compensation, failed to automatically exposed the scene in averaged middle gray luminance (with a default priority to save bright highlights) at whatever WB preset.Do you have an idea Keith how the D7000 handled this exposure?
I took a look at white balance setting. It's on normal not keep warm colors. I'm sure this is a setting I have not changed.
Ok, this is different. After posting the nef I went to look at it again in capture. When I opened it I saw the fixed version and thought "Oh no! I have saved over the original!". I then noticed a box labeled Version and found that I could switch back to the original. Is that why the file size is 40MB instead of 20something like the others? How many versions can you save in a single nef? That's awesome but will take some getting used to.
Here's link to the NEF if you care to look at it. It's 40MB though.http://www.christopherfranklin.info/temp/DSC_0067.zipI had to rename the file so that it could be downloaded. It has an extention of .zip but it is not a zip file. Simply change the file extention to .nef and it should work fine.