Effective fill flash, Louise and Issy

[MHD]

Went down to the south coast this weekend, stayed two nights in Ulladulla which has a very nice little bay and breakwall...

And VERY bright sunshine, so used fill flash to expose my two favorite models and avoid washout on the wash

[MHD]

and yes... cant wait for my LSII to arrive!

[MattC]

MHD,

You have done a good of balancing the background to the foreground there. I would be interested in the technique that you used.

I get good (and consistent) results by spot metering the background in manual mode and then setting FV from skin for foreground exposure, but sometimes I feel that I am under utilising the cameras capabilities.

Cheers

Matt

[Glen]

Scott, think that is a very effective use of fill flash. Perfectly applied

[MHD]

MHD,

You have done a good of balancing the background to the foreground there. I would be interested in the technique that you used.

I get good (and consistent) results by spot metering the background in manual mode and then setting FV from skin for foreground exposure, but sometimes I feel that I am under utilising the cameras capabilities.

Cheers

Matt

It was all done manually
Turned camera to A mode with matrix meter, that told me the shutter speed for the apeture I wanted to use... Turned to M mode dailed up the settings and turned flash on, picked about what I thought to be the power, shot, checked highlights, re adjusted, shot again (ended up being about 1/4 power from memory)

[MattC]

Thanks,

Cheers

Matt