I was asked to take pictures at a convocation ceremony lately and I decided to rent flash equipments along with some lenses (since I was only using the Canon kit lens). That was my first time doing flash photography and the I can say 60-70% of the pictures turned out right (exposure levels were acceptable).
Those which turn out bad were either overexposed, underexposed or faced weird lighting problems (especially vertical body group shots where the one nearest to the flash is exposed correctly while the one at the farthest end turned out darker). I was using a 580EX with the inbuilt bounce card.
I have a few questions..
1. What's the difference between flash exposure (on the flash) and flash exposure option in the camera? I tried reading on it but got quite confused.
2. How come there are people who were taking photos with me using a hot shoe flash didn't need to change their exposure settings? I kept changing mine because of overexposed/underexposed problems when shooting location changes.
3. Bounce card or omnibounce? Saw quite a number of photographers that day using omnibounce.
4. What mode should I use for indoor shots with flash? I kept using manual mode with shutter speed of about 80-120 and constant AP of f5.6. Used ISO 200 for the indoor shots. When I metered the ambient lighting, the shutter speed was metered to be about 20-30. How to gauge what shutter speed should I use?
5. Lastly, I changed my white balance to flash (even for outdoors). Is this a correct WB or should I just leave it to AWB?
Hope you guys can help a noob like me. hurhur.. I was using a 350D with a rented 24-105mm f4L.
Those which turn out bad were either overexposed, underexposed or faced weird lighting problems (especially vertical body group shots where the one nearest to the flash is exposed correctly while the one at the farthest end turned out darker). I was using a 580EX with the inbuilt bounce card.
I have a few questions..
1. What's the difference between flash exposure (on the flash) and flash exposure option in the camera? I tried reading on it but got quite confused.
2. How come there are people who were taking photos with me using a hot shoe flash didn't need to change their exposure settings? I kept changing mine because of overexposed/underexposed problems when shooting location changes.
3. Bounce card or omnibounce? Saw quite a number of photographers that day using omnibounce.
4. What mode should I use for indoor shots with flash? I kept using manual mode with shutter speed of about 80-120 and constant AP of f5.6. Used ISO 200 for the indoor shots. When I metered the ambient lighting, the shutter speed was metered to be about 20-30. How to gauge what shutter speed should I use?
5. Lastly, I changed my white balance to flash (even for outdoors). Is this a correct WB or should I just leave it to AWB?
Hope you guys can help a noob like me. hurhur.. I was using a 350D with a rented 24-105mm f4L.