Outdoor on-camera flash: This is one of the best short videos I’ve seen that explains how to use your speed light outdoors to control ambient light and exposure on the subject. It...

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

This is one of the best short videos I’ve seen that explains how to use your speed light outdoors to control ambient light and exposure on the subject. It works really well indoors too if you have large windows with bright distracting light.

https://youtu.be/vEnAhkL0i38

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Thanks for posting it.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Thanks for posting.
I knew how to do it with Nikon, but not Canon.

Valenta Loc: Top of NZ

Excellent - I learnt a lot. But now, can I remember it all....

sbohne

As much as I love the ease of digital, I loved the old Vivitar manual flashes more. I photographed a high school senior in her prom dress stretched out in the back seat of a limousine. I used the existing daylight for fill, had an assistant in the front seat hold a Vivitar at a 45º angle, set the Vivitar auto sensor for one stop OVER the ambient light, and the end result was a portrait that looked like it was taken in a studio. My partner at the time (a long, bad story that I will not detail here) saw the proofs and exclaimed, "How the hell did you do that?! That portrait is fantastic!"

A legend in my own mind...

sbohne

gvarner wrote:

This is one of the best short videos I’ve seen that explains how to use your speed light outdoors to control ambient light and exposure on the subject. It works really well indoors too if you have large windows with bright distracting light. https://youtu.be/vEnAhkL0i38

I don't know if the Annie Liebovitz ad for her Master Class played when you viewed that, but she said, "Use one camera and one lens until you know what that does." That was a line from a book titled "Lootens on Enlarging" that I read while I was in high school 50 years ago. I took that to heart: I knew exactly what I would get when using a Hasselblad with 80mm Planar. I never had to say to myself, "I hope that turns out."

Good advice then, good advice today.

Silverman Loc: Michigan

gvarner wrote:

This is one of the best short videos I’ve seen that explains how to use your speed light outdoors to control ambient light and exposure on the subject. It works really well indoors too if you have large windows with bright distracting light.

https://youtu.be/vEnAhkL0i38

Yes, that is a very good Video, just must be able to REMEMBER that very good lesson in a live Photo shoot. I would advise myself to PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE.😊

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

Good stuff - thanks!!