These images were taken in class this evening. The class was decimated due to the horrid weather. But Marco did a lot of talking and we had to do lots of experiments. He showed us how to set for fill lighting which is how come I have these images of Katarina. He also talked about histograms and about 1st Curtain and 2nd (or rear) curtains. Now to practice all this stuff.
Feature image: sRGB, ISO 800, F6.3, 1/30, 220mm, FF -2.0
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Fill lighting not flash? Is the FF number your flash compensation?
I must get my head around that rear curtain stuff too!
Sorry, yes, I should have said "fill flash". Yes, the -2.0 is the flash compensation that he recommended we use as an adjunct to any available natural light. He said we could vary that if necessary but this is as far as my camera will allow.
I have so much more to bed down before I focus on whether the flash goes off at the beginning or the end of the shot. However, as with most things, I guess it is a case of use it soon or lose it soon. If you use 1st curtain, the flash freezes the front of the image and the rest of the image is blurred giving emphasis to movement. This needs to be done on a wide aperture.
Am I close, Ann?
Not sure, my camera seemed to be doing the opposite of what he was saying and I think I was using the wrong lens for that type of shot, my focus was way too slow and I kept missing the shot. Also in my manual with 2nd curtain (rear)it says the flash fires twice, once at the beginning and once at the end!??? I'm not sure that its a function I'll have a lot of use for, although the fill flash is very useful. Your photos today look a lot darker than I think they would have actually been, it must be the screen or the way blogger puts them up.
PS - Peter, that white line in yesterday's shot is definitely flare from the lights, I kept getting it again shooting under strip fluros last night. Marco said use a lens hood, which I don't have for that particular lens, was going to get one but the salesman said I wouldn't need it with the UV filter.
I love it, a salesman who didn't sell you an accessory!
On my 50mm lens (which I still haven't replaced) I used to get all sorts of reflections between the filter and the lens face which did those sorts of things now that I think about it.
You could try without the filter in that situation, just out of curiousity.
Thanks, I did wonder whether I should take the filter off. Will give it a try.
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Its stunning. I'm having trouble getting my head around the fact that something can be that dark and still work, and how you interpret the histogram for something like that.
First, grab your tripod!
It's the consistency that those sorts of people achieve that inspires or perhaps sends me off in fits of jealous near-rage.
No substitute for doing it lots I guess.
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