Keith Penney |
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Flash Problems
Keith Penney
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Photo to go with question.....
February 22, 2005
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Michael H. Cothran |
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Keith,
I didn't see a question, but your photo is very typical of what to expect using an oncamera flash in a big open room. It's a bad picture for sure - overexposed subject with underexposed background. But...very, very typical.
Is your question how to get a better shot under this specific condition??
If so, here's the answer -
Dial in a -1 stop for your flash, and set your camera to manual with a shutter speed of 1/15 second, and an f-stop of f5.6. Ignore your meter, but be sure your flash TTL is on.
Michael H. Cothran
www.mhcphoto.net
February 24, 2005
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Tammy L. Odell |
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Michael,
I have had some of the same problems with some of my images from my dig rebel. Some of the exposers were perfect and some were blown out badly. My question to you is, if you set your shutter to 1/15 second, won't you need a tripod?? I took some photos of my daughter homcoming the other evening and didn't change a thing in the two shots below, only my focal lenght a little bit and one image is way overexposed. Sometimes I do dial in a -1 or 1 and 1/2 on my flash exposure comp. But that takes time to do reshoots. I have my first wedding in 1 week and 3 days!!! I have assisted on 4 others and a few images turn out the same way when I used my digital. I know this doesn't make sense, but I only notice images blown out that way when I change focal lenghts. I would love advice on how to fix the prob. Using a tripod would be very cumbersome at a wedding. Thanks in advance!!
February 24, 2005
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Tammy L. Odell |
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Here they are!!
February 24, 2005
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Tammy L. Odell |
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1/60 @ F4
Tammy L. Odell
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1/60 @ F4
Tammy L. Odell
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1/60 @ F4
Tammy L. Odell
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Why aren't they uploading?????????
February 24, 2005
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Tammy L. Odell |
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Oh, there they are!! Except one of them uploaded twice!!
February 24, 2005
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Kerry L. Walker |
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This is not meant as a bash against digital, even though I am a film shooter, but here goes. The biggest problem I see here in getting the exposure correct is the extreme contrast. The boy has a black shirt and the girl has a very light colored dress. (By the way, they are both cute kids.) Try metering off a grey card. This will give you the equivalent of an incident light reading. Film (negative film, not slide film), with its greater exposure latitude and more gradual tonal gradations, handles this problem better than digital, which acts much like slide film. You will need to get to a balance of exposure between the extreme light and extreme dark. It can be done with digital. Perhaps one of the digital shooters ccan help out better than I can.
February 24, 2005
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Tammy L. Odell |
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Thanks Kerry!
Sorry to take over your question Keith! But seems as though our problems are of the same nature!
Can anyone explain the process of metering off a gray card when using a flash. I tried that and it wasn't changing my reading with the flash on. I will have to use flash for this wedding on many of the indoor formal shots.
February 24, 2005
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Kerry L. Walker |
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Well, excuse my stupidity. I wasn't really paying attention about the flash - duhhh. (Wake up, brain!) Let me think on this and I will be back after a while.
February 24, 2005
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Kerry L. Walker |
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I have thought the problem over and I am afraid I am not the one to offer a solution. If you were using film, I would suggest you switch to a lower contrast film but I don't know how to handle it with digital. Michael is probably the one to help you here. Perhaps he will see this and offer a solution. I do know you need to be somewhere between the correct amount of light for the light dress and the correct amount of light for the dark shirt.
February 24, 2005
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