Recent content by dynamitetony

it took me ages to get my head around usign high ISO and slow shutter speeds when using flash and getting the ambient light in as mentioned, settings for ambient light to look good, then add flash.. i did an event last night ISO was at between 800-1600

^^^ and that, use your shutter speed to control the ambient light (along with ISO)

Hi ... yes the ISO will effect the ambient light.. think of using the flash as mixing 2 shots together, the ambient light and the flash light. if you want to see how the background will come out, turn off your flash and take a shot. that is your ambient background, so you adjust your...

er, it doesnt back up the photos themseleves, you need to do this manually by copying them to another location it only backups up the lightroom catalogue. which you should back up too from time to time

that is true, there are many ways to skin a cat

double post

im sorry but thats not the first thing i would do at all, taking if off camera is just an added complication for a total flash beginner. watch youtube vids and get to grips with understand how using a flash is like having two exposures. ambient light + flash light play around in M flash mode...

PP is making it look a bit odd

that turtle shot is amazing.

agree, there is not much "street" about it, but nice pic all the same

I have a lastolite highlite sitting here doing nothing, so i was going to start off with that but was aware about wanting to add more lights / reflectors etc still dont know which is the way to go bowens or elinchrom (or lencarta)

WOW, fantastic space, good luck to you both . subscribing.

i been looking around too and also came to the same two options elinchrom dlike IT kit or bowens 400 kit, would really like some opinions on which way to go

i have the canon 1.4 and its a great lens .... cant speak for the others.

if you want body only you could grab a 5Dmk2 second hand for that