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
Thanks for posting.
I knew how to do it with Nikon, but not Canon.
Excellent - I learnt a lot. But now, can I remember it all....
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...
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/vEnAhkL0i38I 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.
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/vEnAhkL0i38Yes, 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.😊
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