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Shooting Daylight Interiors I want to shoot interiors. I've used hot lights,(too direct); monolights at night, (too many dark corners, and dark windows); monolights--daytime, still dark corners with blown out windows or no flash--available light with sun shadows and yellow walls. If I filter out the incandescent light then the daylight will be too blue. What is the secret mixture of light to get this image?
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Colin Bell |
Hi Ron, The best and easiest way I have found is to use a tripod with a dedicated flash unit. Using ambient light, exposure compensation, and second curtain shutter sync set on the flash. It sounds like a lot, but it is easy in practice. Set the camera on the tripod, Use the aperture-priority mode on your camera, set the aperture for a good depth of field, ( F16 ), and take an ambient light reading of the room. With the camera, or a light meter. Add two stops of exposure compensation, switch on the second curtain shutter sync on the flash unit, and take the picture. The two stops of exposure compensation stops the light from the windows over exposing the shot, the second curtain shutter sync allows the camera to capture the ambient light in the room first, before the flash goes off. If there are no windows in the room, you won’t need the second curtain shutter sync. You might have to experiment with the amount of exposure compensation you use, in Australia where I’m from, it is almost always two stops, but our light is very intense. I do bracket down if there is not much light entering the windows. I might use one or one and one half stops of exposure compensation. Well I hope I have helped you.
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