Nathan Greninger
Annalee in a Suitcase Speed light Tutorial
This is my baby. She is 1 year old today. I love my baby with all my heart!
I may need to explain this shot, and why the exif data is the way it is. 1/125 f/1.8 100 ISO 50mm. This was shot at 4:00 in the afternoon. The sun was still pretty high in the sky, and I live in Colorado, it was really bright outside.However, I found enough shade from the tree that we are under (go in the shade so there are no shadows) for me to set up an extra speed light on the right hand side with a shoot through umbrella creating a nice soft light, and more importantly using a wide aperture. How did I maintain a 1/125 shutter speed and a 1.8/f???? without a $3,000.00 camera body and a high speed sync flash in the middle of the day?
Here we go into the nuts and bolts of this shot. $30.00 and you can buy a .9 ND filter. .9 = 9 stops, just to be honest I have no idea what a techy smecky stop means, except it makes everything really dark, kinda like a pair of sunglasses. I have a 50mm 1.8/f prime on my camera because I like blurry backgrounds.Here is my take on what a stop is. To shoot in the afternoon and get a perfect exposure with your aperture wide open you have to have an extremely fast shutter speed IE 1/2500, but with my camera, I don't have a high speed sync flash! Shoot! Now,I move to a shady spot, it probably brought me down another couple stops, IE 1/1000 with my aperture wide open at 1.8. Still, not a slow enough shutter speed because my camera's max is 1/200.
Hmmm1 I lower the ISO to 100, and that makes it dark, I have a fast shutter speed so it doesn't let in too much light, but I really hate this harsh sunlight! AHHHH! And me, seeing as my style is like this. I like a bright subject and a darker blurry background.... So, I ran into a problem, a problem that I think many people have, but just don't know the simple fix. Sunglasses, and dark ones. So I put my 9 stop ND filter on. Hehehe...Now, I can drop my shutter speed down to 1/60 for a perfect matrix exposure! Haha! I got it now! But, perfect is too bright for me! So, I raise the shutter speed up to 1/125 to let less light in. Now, the whole image is too dark! Perfect! Now it is time to use my flash to brighten up the subject with soft light that I control... On my controller flash I raise the EV compensation of the speed light just camera right up one stop. Now, we can see that the entire photo is dark, but the accent is on the baby!
Annalee in a Suitcase Speed light Tutorial
This is my baby. She is 1 year old today. I love my baby with all my heart!
I may need to explain this shot, and why the exif data is the way it is. 1/125 f/1.8 100 ISO 50mm. This was shot at 4:00 in the afternoon. The sun was still pretty high in the sky, and I live in Colorado, it was really bright outside.However, I found enough shade from the tree that we are under (go in the shade so there are no shadows) for me to set up an extra speed light on the right hand side with a shoot through umbrella creating a nice soft light, and more importantly using a wide aperture. How did I maintain a 1/125 shutter speed and a 1.8/f???? without a $3,000.00 camera body and a high speed sync flash in the middle of the day?
Here we go into the nuts and bolts of this shot. $30.00 and you can buy a .9 ND filter. .9 = 9 stops, just to be honest I have no idea what a techy smecky stop means, except it makes everything really dark, kinda like a pair of sunglasses. I have a 50mm 1.8/f prime on my camera because I like blurry backgrounds.Here is my take on what a stop is. To shoot in the afternoon and get a perfect exposure with your aperture wide open you have to have an extremely fast shutter speed IE 1/2500, but with my camera, I don't have a high speed sync flash! Shoot! Now,I move to a shady spot, it probably brought me down another couple stops, IE 1/1000 with my aperture wide open at 1.8. Still, not a slow enough shutter speed because my camera's max is 1/200.
Hmmm1 I lower the ISO to 100, and that makes it dark, I have a fast shutter speed so it doesn't let in too much light, but I really hate this harsh sunlight! AHHHH! And me, seeing as my style is like this. I like a bright subject and a darker blurry background.... So, I ran into a problem, a problem that I think many people have, but just don't know the simple fix. Sunglasses, and dark ones. So I put my 9 stop ND filter on. Hehehe...Now, I can drop my shutter speed down to 1/60 for a perfect matrix exposure! Haha! I got it now! But, perfect is too bright for me! So, I raise the shutter speed up to 1/125 to let less light in. Now, the whole image is too dark! Perfect! Now it is time to use my flash to brighten up the subject with soft light that I control... On my controller flash I raise the EV compensation of the speed light just camera right up one stop. Now, we can see that the entire photo is dark, but the accent is on the baby!