![]() ![]() #Balancing flash and ambient light how to#I am assuming you already know how to do these. You need a method to trigger the flash, and you will need to control the brightness of the flash. ![]() It is not the scope of this article to explain how to control whatever brand of flash or speedlight you are using. How can I control my specific brand of flash gun? One thing a bare speedlight is good for, is keeping the area the light hits very small. I am not getting into different speedlight modifiers here, but have listed the modifers I used in this shoot below. If you want softer shadows, then you need to use an appropriate modifier. A bare speedlight is a very small light source, so it makes hard shadows. Will I need to use a lighting modifier on my flash? As a compromise, if you don’t own a suitable light modifier available, you can get someone to hold a white card for your flash to bounce off. More than likely, by the time the light bounces back to your model, it will have spread out and will no longer be “controlled”. Here you will be limited by the availability of suitable surfaces, and just how “suitable” they are! They may be coloured, and they may not be where you want them. Alternatively you can bounce the flash off another surface, by pointing it’s head in that direction. If you point the flash directly at your model, the lighting on him/her will be very flat and (probably) uninteresting. If you use a flash mounted on top of your camera, you have much less control over the spread of light. Getting the flash off the camera allows you to point it in the direction you want, so you can control where the light falls, and how shadows are created on your model. Matching the colour balance of your flash to the ambieīecause a photographer needs to control how the flash complements (or even compliments!) the ambient lighting in the room.Getting your flash off the camera (ie “off camera flash”).In my opinion there are three important things to consider Remember that the three dimensionality of the scene will be controlled by the shadows, just as much as by the light. #Balancing flash and ambient light professional#I am writing this for keen amateur photographers who would like to take professional looking photos using a flash gun, or speedlight, indoors in a house that is lit with tungsten bulbs. How to use flash to supplement tungsten lighting? ![]()
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