 Erin J. Carlson |
Lighting I have a set of basic lights that I bought from a place on the web. They flash with my flash from my camera, do I have to much light going on if I have the "flash" lights, the flash on my camera, as well as a light on in the room to be able to see? (these lights do not stay on full time they just flash with the flash) Or am I okay with having ambient light from the room or with small lamps on in the room behind or to the side of my subject and my equipment? With the photo's I have taken they don't looke too bad but I just don't want to have too much light going on. Thanks
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Bob Chance |
Hi Erin: I'll try to answer you as best I can with what information you are providing. Without knowing exactly how much light (ambient) you're talking about, I'll assume a normally lit room with no additional lighting for your photo shoots. So long as you don't have too much extrenuous daylight streaming in from a picture window, you should be okay. To check the balance without special equipment, check to see what your meter readings would be with just the light normally illuminating that particular room. Hopefully, your reading will be wide open aperature with a shutter speed below 1/60 sec. With your flashes, first of all, your shutter should sync anywhere from 1/60 to 1/250 sec depending on your camera and equipment. Secondly, depending on the power of your fash heads and the distance from your subject, your aperature should be anywhere from f8.0 or smaller. With the smaller aperature and faster shutter speed, the flash should supercede the ambient light in the room. In other words, unless you have a lot of ambient light, the exposure required for your flash pictures should be so much less than that required for the ambient light, that the ambient light should have no effect. The only time it would come into play is if you were purposely using a long shutter speed with your flash, making your exposure long enough to capture the ambient light. Also, if your flash units are the monolite style with built in modeling lamps, they should not affect your flash pictures. Unless again you're using a lengthy shutter speed. Bob
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