Mixing Flash and Ambient Light Part 1

[fotostock1]

Hey, I was thrilled to be able to get the answer right about lowering the shutter speed to brighten the ambient light. I've been reading Bryan Peterson's excellent book 'Understanding Flash Photography', and it's taught me a lot. Very clear, helpful video. If metronomic found it boring, why did he continue watching?

[metronomic1]

Most BORING tutorial ever.

[new25ash]

can't you still get a sharp shot a lower than 60 of a second?

[Bomberz3]

Good stuff! Normalize your audio...

[kenlor71]

Perhaps turn up the gain on your sound input.

[syafiqzailan]

its all about dynamic range!

[Pisces14ful]

I could hardly  hear you...

[TingRoger]

Pardon me - uncle Fred here. I shoot with one and may be two flashes - assuming the subject is stationery during a wedding shoot - and with my system I can vary the power of each group on my camera. The challenge in this type of photography is where you place your flash(es) ... as to the exposure, at least for me, varying it on my camera is a snap with TTL metering.

[davidg1024]

I'm uncle Fred, but I would be using my Pentax Spotmatic and use available light. Although, I wouldn't follow you around like a puppy because that would be rude. You are trying to run a business, and I wouldn't be surprised if you punched me in the face. Instead, I would be taking candid photos. I love photos that capture real emotion. This is a very informative video. Does that light meter get a more accurate light reading then using the camera's meter?

[agpyo06]

@davidg1024 Yes, it is more accurate than the light meter in your camera. Couple of quick points: The camera meter could be used in many different modes (spot metering, center-weight average, evaluative, partial) with dedicated lightmeters you can (not with all of them but with good ones): 1- Very accurate spot meter (more accurate than with the camera spot meter), incident light, reflected light (cameras only measure reflected light).

you can also read ambient/flash ratio. hope this helped

[chuda99]

This video is super informative. Thank you!

[ericamandaadventures]

Thanks so much! Great video! Very informative!

[Solarfactor]

Great vids.

[surferboy36O]

Wow, first serious video of photography I've ever seen! Excellent!

[timetotravel]

great vid! very informitive and clealy presented.

[arg13415]

Now with photoshop, you might try a bracketed sequence with multiple exposure levels and then turning them into a high dynamic range photo to be cut down however you'd like later in post processing

[treeelee11]

Thanks!

[ezrahumane]

Thank you! Im sure glade Im not uncle fred

[jzhao1688]

Your videos are very helpfull and are one of the best flash videos on youtube.

@jzhao1688

[jesusbify]

can you tell me where to buy this flashes???? or whats the wesite to buy this items??? urgently!!!

[doyoulikechocolate]

superb - very educational - thank you!!!

[chrisburfoot]

I was triggering with a Skyport radio trigger!

[DonDavisUK]

An excellent tip. I think I would have automatically tried the app myself, but changing the shutter speed makes so much more sense. Thanks for sharing. Don.

[davefk]

Superb! I learnt so much there Chris thanks!

[davefk]

How are you getting that Sekonic L-308S (without a cord) to trigger your lights when taking a test reading?

[fhqwghads]

@davefk He's using an Elinchrom hotshoe remote trigger in one hand while holding the Sekonic in the other. It's got a "Test" button that when pressed activates any flashes on that transmitter's channel and group.

[sinruff]

Excellent tutorial, Thanks!

[c2thew]

wow, this was a very good video with an important issue mentioned in the beginning.

[Choosy33]

fantastic video - Terry raves about your courses so I guess now I will have to save up!

[fact30]

grat video thnx for taking the time to do it and posting it, i´ll love to have a ranger quadra

[muziekkamer]

TFC!! Great video!!!

Tnx and make more.

[magix93]

very good explanation.

thanks

[moserbua]

@Chris & his team ! I'm big fan of your tube-videos - very clear - very informal - absolut great ! THANKS !!!

[ProPhotoHouston02]

Great video, Happy to see you guys are doing more video's

-Rome

[TheFlashCentre]

Part two coming up next week!

[klasiqk]

Awesome, thank you so much for sharing!