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Exposure for White Wedding Dress How do I get detail in a wedding dress? I'm using a Canon 20D with mono-lights and I am washing out the whites. I use 400 ISO at f8. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Justin G. |
First off, hopefully you're using incident readings which makes life easier with monolights. One thing you can do is to take a reading with your meter and main light and then stop down about a half stop. For example, if you get a f/5.6 reading, I believe a half stop is like 6.3 or something like that. This will stop down enough to hopefully preserve your details. If not, stop down a full stop, which would be f/8 for a f/5.6 reading. Hopefully this helps you a little. Or, if you have a stepless power option on your lights (like the AB's do), you can get your reading of, say, f/5.6 - then drop your light output by 1/3, 1/2 or a full stop, whichever works. Also, since you're shooting with digital, you can watch your histograms and exposures to make sure you're not blowing the highlights. Also, if you're shooting with monolights, I'd drop your ISO to about 100, so you get the most noise-less images you can get. Unless you're doing location shots, there's not too much of a reason to keep the ISO high in the studio. Just my opinions.
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