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<blockquote data-quote="gohan2091" data-source="post: 202613" data-attributes="member: 11990"><p><a href="http://nikonites.com/member-13076-crycocyon.html" target="_blank"><strong>crycocyon</strong></a>, Less than 2 years ago, my only photography experience was with a budget phone camera and i've self taught myself since then. I've done 5 weddings now, several christenings and a few other things but all have been with on-camera flash. My results have been good but could be so much nicer with off-camera flash. My umbrella has a black cover which can be removed (however, I think it's broken because when I clip the cover around the umbrella, when I close and reopen, the cover falls off!) The inner is a white satin material, not silver. I do have a 5 in 1 reflector though which has a silver side. Would doing this sort of stuff via a shoot-through umbrella work well?</p><p></p><p>A few question if you don't mind helping me out:</p><p></p><p>1) At the start, with the flash turned off, do you measure the ambient exposure with the model in the frame or do you just meter off the background? </p><p></p><p>2) With TTL off-camera I think you say you use FEC (Flash Exposure Compensation) to control the flash power? How do you do this? From the flash unit? or on camera itself? Does your EC (Exposure Compensation) effect both the camera and flash exposure or have you got it set to just affect the camera exposure? On my D7100, I can set the EC setting to either effect just the camera exposure or both the camera exposure and flash.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gohan2091, post: 202613, member: 11990"] [URL="http://nikonites.com/member-13076-crycocyon.html"][B]crycocyon[/B][/URL], Less than 2 years ago, my only photography experience was with a budget phone camera and i've self taught myself since then. I've done 5 weddings now, several christenings and a few other things but all have been with on-camera flash. My results have been good but could be so much nicer with off-camera flash. My umbrella has a black cover which can be removed (however, I think it's broken because when I clip the cover around the umbrella, when I close and reopen, the cover falls off!) The inner is a white satin material, not silver. I do have a 5 in 1 reflector though which has a silver side. Would doing this sort of stuff via a shoot-through umbrella work well? A few question if you don't mind helping me out: 1) At the start, with the flash turned off, do you measure the ambient exposure with the model in the frame or do you just meter off the background? 2) With TTL off-camera I think you say you use FEC (Flash Exposure Compensation) to control the flash power? How do you do this? From the flash unit? or on camera itself? Does your EC (Exposure Compensation) effect both the camera and flash exposure or have you got it set to just affect the camera exposure? On my D7100, I can set the EC setting to either effect just the camera exposure or both the camera exposure and flash. [/QUOTE]
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