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When is the right time to use flash?
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<blockquote data-quote="Disorderly" data-source="post: 131914" data-attributes="member: 10297"><p>There's main lighting and then there's fill flash. Speedlights like your SB-600 aren't powerful enough to provide the main light in most cases, so I use them for fill. Here the idea is that you can get a reasonable exposure from ambient light sources (usually sunlight) but the contrast between bright and dark is too high (harsh shadows) or there are areas you want to soften/brighten. I use an SB-900 with a Ray Flash ringlight adapter. It lets me keep everything on-camera but eliminates the shadow that screams snapshot to most people.</p><p></p><p>Here's an example. We were shooting in an abandoned restaurant. The key light was from a broken out window to the right. Everything else was pitch black, so I used my speedlight and the Ray Flash to give her arm and her side some detail. Otherwise the falloff of light would be more extreme than I wanted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Disorderly, post: 131914, member: 10297"] There's main lighting and then there's fill flash. Speedlights like your SB-600 aren't powerful enough to provide the main light in most cases, so I use them for fill. Here the idea is that you can get a reasonable exposure from ambient light sources (usually sunlight) but the contrast between bright and dark is too high (harsh shadows) or there are areas you want to soften/brighten. I use an SB-900 with a Ray Flash ringlight adapter. It lets me keep everything on-camera but eliminates the shadow that screams snapshot to most people. Here's an example. We were shooting in an abandoned restaurant. The key light was from a broken out window to the right. Everything else was pitch black, so I used my speedlight and the Ray Flash to give her arm and her side some detail. Otherwise the falloff of light would be more extreme than I wanted. [/QUOTE]
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