Hey Peeps
I usually shoot in manual. When shooting outside, I find the ambient with ISO, shutter and aperture and then drop it by a stop or two then manually adjust the power of my speedlight/AD200 to taste.
I've never explored using TTL and apeture priority mode but something got me thinking and hopefully you experts will point me in the right direction.
Presumably, if shooting manual and set speedlight/AD200 to TTL, if I set the ambient to 1 or 2 stops under, then the power output will be reduced too and the subject will be lit 1 or 2 stops under too? Is this where flash exposure compensation comes in? So if I drop the ambient by 2 stops, I use +2 FEC?
Or, if using aperture priority, I could let the camera set the exposure based on my choice of aperture, use exposure compensation on the camera to drop the ambient by 2 stops then use FEC to bring the subject up by 2 stops?
Is my thinking correct?
Dont know why my brain has not computed this beforehand. I'm going to have a play about at the weekend and see what it gives me.
Got two AD200s at the moment and very tempted to get a AD600 Pro for my outdoor work.
I usually shoot in manual. When shooting outside, I find the ambient with ISO, shutter and aperture and then drop it by a stop or two then manually adjust the power of my speedlight/AD200 to taste.
I've never explored using TTL and apeture priority mode but something got me thinking and hopefully you experts will point me in the right direction.
Presumably, if shooting manual and set speedlight/AD200 to TTL, if I set the ambient to 1 or 2 stops under, then the power output will be reduced too and the subject will be lit 1 or 2 stops under too? Is this where flash exposure compensation comes in? So if I drop the ambient by 2 stops, I use +2 FEC?
Or, if using aperture priority, I could let the camera set the exposure based on my choice of aperture, use exposure compensation on the camera to drop the ambient by 2 stops then use FEC to bring the subject up by 2 stops?
Is my thinking correct?
Dont know why my brain has not computed this beforehand. I'm going to have a play about at the weekend and see what it gives me.
Got two AD200s at the moment and very tempted to get a AD600 Pro for my outdoor work.