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Kerry L. Stiles
 

Iso setting for high sun


 
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Hi everyone,
I have a wedding Saturday, at 11am. I know it will be very sunny so I took a few test shots to see what the best settings may be, the shot is of my son, but my settings were iso 400 everything else auto, white balance was set for high sun, and I used a fill flash with a strobo frame, but his skin (to me)if you look real close at his arms, still looks a tad blown out, any suggestions???
I appreciate any!

Kerry L. Stiles

 
 
Hi everyone,
I have a wedding Saturday, at 11am. I know it will be very sunny so I took a few test shots to see what the best settings may be, the shot is of my son, but my settings were iso 400 everything else auto, white balance was set for high sun, and I used a fill flash with a strobo frame, but his skin (to me) still looks a tad blown out, any suggestions???
I appreciate any!


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March 16, 2006

 

Mark Feldstein
  Sooooooooooooooo, how bout dropping your ISO to something like 100 and when you take a reading, cut your exposure by 1/3 to 1/2 of one f-stop.
Mark


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March 16, 2006

 

Kerry L. Stiles
  Hey thanks Mark, I lost my blaring sun for the day so I am going to try it tomorrow, let you know how it goes, thanks again
Kerry


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March 16, 2006

 

Mark Feldstein
  You know Kerry, in terms of exposure, that shot of your son isn't really bad, at least on my IBM monitor. Maybe he seems to have a blotchy sun burn but the overall exposure looks pretty good.

Let me know how it turned out.
Mark


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March 18, 2006

 

Kerry L. Stiles
 
 
 
Hey everybody,
Thanks so much for all the help, that is why I love this site so much! The wedding went great, I am just starting to edit some of the photos, but they look great, I only have a couple of pictures that I will have to photoshop a bit.
Thanks again all!
I am gonna upload one that I just did, not a traditional, but I thought it was kinda neet.


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March 18, 2006

 

Kerry L. Stiles
  Well, I tired to upload it here but it didn't go so well, it is in my gallery though, go figure?!


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March 18, 2006

 
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