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| Category: | Studio Lighting and Flash |
Mixing flash and daylight for your portraits - Chris Burfoot AMPA ASWPP shows us how to mix flash and daylight to create a great portrait.
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| Inside and outside balanced 1/125 @ f8. |
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| Shutter reduced to 1/60th @ f8. |
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What you say about fill-in flash is largely true. The only trouble is that this technique produces shots that LOOK like flash shots. The dedicated flash guns made for DSLRs are sophisticated enough for a simple trouble-free and (almost) foolproof technique. For my own work I hardly ever balance ambient and flash lighting.
This is the technique I use. Set the DSLR to 'Shutter preferred' mode and the flash gun to high speed sync; set a shutter speed on the DSLR and adjust the flash gun's exposure compensation to minus I stop. And that's it. You'll get almost undetectable and virtually perfect fill-in. Use it also on dull days to give the subject's eyes a catch-light. It will also correct colour and give auto white balance an easy job!
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