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<blockquote data-quote="kevy73" data-source="post: 386186" data-attributes="member: 23493"><p>learn to use your flash to great effect. You want it to freeze the people but allow the natural ambient light to come into the pic.</p><p></p><p>What I do, and what my assistant has been instructed to do is: (yes it will sound scary, but it truly works)</p><p></p><p>ISO: 400</p><p>Shutter: 1/40</p><p>Apeture: f4.0</p><p>Flash on manual 1/4 power.</p><p></p><p>Easy to remember - all 4's.</p><p></p><p>The big thing to remember is put your flash on rear sync. That is the important bit</p><p></p><p>People panic and think that 1/40 is too slow - believe me, it isn't if you rear sync your flash. I use those settings as my starting point for reception shots. Sometimes you need to increase ISO a tad, or - heaven forbid, decrease the shutter even more - need practice to do that though. </p><p></p><p>Sometimes I will also increase the ISO to 640 and drop the aperture to f2.8</p><p></p><p>Don't use your 80-200 - your flash with those settings won't reach far enough. I use mainly my 50mm and 24-70 f2.8</p><p></p><p></p><p>Shots below are taken with those kinds of settings. Do these look boring?</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.kevinmcginn.com.au/Clients/SarahRyan/i-Rf7fC7t/0/M/DSC_3536-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.kevinmcginn.com.au/Clients/ValAndBen/i-MvW92rN/0/M/DSC_9788-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.kevinmcginn.com.au/Clients/LeighRichard/i-z39Fzxc/0/M/DSC_8391-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.kevinmcginn.com.au/Clients/AmandaAndGareth/i-nqzD4SJ/0/M/128-DSC_0098-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kevy73, post: 386186, member: 23493"] learn to use your flash to great effect. You want it to freeze the people but allow the natural ambient light to come into the pic. What I do, and what my assistant has been instructed to do is: (yes it will sound scary, but it truly works) ISO: 400 Shutter: 1/40 Apeture: f4.0 Flash on manual 1/4 power. Easy to remember - all 4's. The big thing to remember is put your flash on rear sync. That is the important bit People panic and think that 1/40 is too slow - believe me, it isn't if you rear sync your flash. I use those settings as my starting point for reception shots. Sometimes you need to increase ISO a tad, or - heaven forbid, decrease the shutter even more - need practice to do that though. Sometimes I will also increase the ISO to 640 and drop the aperture to f2.8 Don't use your 80-200 - your flash with those settings won't reach far enough. I use mainly my 50mm and 24-70 f2.8 Shots below are taken with those kinds of settings. Do these look boring? [IMG]http://www.kevinmcginn.com.au/Clients/SarahRyan/i-Rf7fC7t/0/M/DSC_3536-M.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.kevinmcginn.com.au/Clients/ValAndBen/i-MvW92rN/0/M/DSC_9788-M.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.kevinmcginn.com.au/Clients/LeighRichard/i-z39Fzxc/0/M/DSC_8391-M.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.kevinmcginn.com.au/Clients/AmandaAndGareth/i-nqzD4SJ/0/M/128-DSC_0098-M.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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