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Manual Flash

Postby mark on Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:52 pm

I've been wanting a bit more from my flash lately than iTTL on camera flash can offer, so I've been reading strobist and experimenting a little.

Manual flash to camera right (diffused thru white photocopy paper) with white reflector to camera left for fill. I could have moved the lemon to the left side to avoid any highlights, but I wanted to make this as difficult a flash tuning excercise as I could.
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I know the egg is dirty, I had only collected it from the chook coup 10 minutes earlier.

This is hard directional light (85mm at 1/16) from camera left and white paper to camera right for fill. Hand holding for 2.5sec and manually firing the flash to light the scene.
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I realise that compositionally these could have been better and that I could have used a tripod for the second shot, but I was feeling lazy and all I was really wanting to know was how to manipulate the flash in manual mode.
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Re: Manual Flash

Postby Bindii on Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:32 pm

Well there is only one way to learn and thats to do it..

or we could wait for someone else to do it and post the results on the forum to save us the effort... thanks for sharing.. I for one appreciate it.. :)
The last thing I want to do is hurt you... but it's still on the list... ;)
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Re: Manual Flash

Postby surenj on Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:46 pm

Thanks for the post. I am always trying to figure out how to use off camera flash.
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