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Re: First Paid job- Need advice please
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Re: First Paid job- Need advice please
The flickering of fluorescent lights I knew, but the significance of shutter speed for color balance with fluorescents I did not know. Very interesting. I agree with shooting in Manual Mode - using aperture for flash exposure, and shutter speed for ambient light balance it it will fit in the 1/30th, 1/60th, 1/125th ratios… -
Re: First Paid job- Need advice please
Actually, 1/125 also works. This gives you a full half-wave, which is identical in all respects to the other half. Notice that 1/90 would not work, nor would any speed faster than 1/125. Also I wanted to mention that when you said that you did not want any digital noise that this is, technically, impossible to achieve. You… -
Re: First Paid job- Need advice please
EV 0 is f/1 at 1 second. Every stop below that adds 1 to the exposure value. So as an example, f/4 is 4 stops below f/1 and 1/125s is 7 stops below 1s so f/4 at 1/125s is 4+7 = 11. I put together a handy little chart of EV values here. What I find most useful about EV values is that they are a handy way of remembering… -
Re: First Paid job- Need advice please
Some things to think about:* The light in the Y will be as described above. Your flash is designed to produce day-light balanced light. If you shoot with a a slow enough shutter that you get some ambient light in the shot, your walls will have a really ugly cast to them. * Visit the location to determine the color of the… -
Re: First Paid job- Need advice please
Wow, Excellent suggestions, Scott, and the suggestion about 1/60th or slower to capture a full cycle with fluorescent light is really helpful - I have not seen that mentioned before, but it makes a great deal of sense, and may explain some funky yellow colors I got shooting in the basement of a church lit by fluorescents -… -
Re: First Paid job- Need advice please
Thank you for your advice...If I shoot in Manual mode at 1/60 the widest aperture I get is f5.6 and it is still underexposed. I increased the ISO to 400 but that does not seem to help. I tried setting the exposure compensation to 0.7 and that does seem to help. What am I doing wrong? I took a couple test shots of my… -
Re: First Paid job- Need advice please
Thank you for your advice. I'm still learning and I'm not sure I understand what you are saying....How do you come up with the EV values? I know how to change the ISO, aperture and shutter speed in manual but how do you come up with the EV numbers? I know my goal is to stay with ISO 400 or 800, set the shutter speed to… -
Re: First Paid job- Need advice please
Yes indeedy. When shooting indoors, my first guess at the ISO is usually 800. I typically like to shoot kids events at around EV 11 (1/125s at f/4) if I can get it so I'll only back off to ISO 400 only in the rare circumstance that I find myself at EV 12 at ISO 800. When shooting with the flash, I typically underexpose the… -
Re: First Paid job- Need advice please
If you are shooting in manual mode, you have control over both the shutter and the aperture. You could, if you wanted to, set the shutter speed to 1/6000 and the aperture to f/22 or you could just as easily set them to 1/2 and f3.5. Neither of these is likely to produce a useable image, but you have the power/control to do…
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