help on fill flash

[miniUltraman]

Your exposure was a few seconds at F/4?

What ISO did you use?

errr... I always still set to ISO100 whenever I have my flash with me :embrass:
might not be FEW secs... maybe like 1-2 secs...

 

[miniUltraman]

seem both you and TS need lesson on flash...try SLCC...they have good flash lesson at a good price...:thumbsup:

Thanks westwest! I will take your advise to go for flash lesson...:thumbsup: SLCC sounds good

 

[Clockunder]

errr... I always still set to ISO100 whenever I have my flash with me :embrass:
might not be FEW secs... maybe like 1-2 secs...

If you want to have much shorter exposure and also have a good balance between the flashed foreground and light of the background, then you would need to pump up your ISO.

The downside is of course more noise. However, many people have produced very nice night pictures even at high ISO. Sometimes, high ISO is the only choice when you can't ask the subjects to freeze at all. At other times, using a very high ISO for a fast shutter speed get a sharper picture because there is some movement even in posed picture if the exposure is a second or two which is very susceptible to both camera shake (vibration by wind or vehicle etc.) and subject movement.

Take a look, there is a picture below taken at ISO 640:
http://www.planetneil.com/faq/flash-techniques.html

http://www.planetneil.com/faq/dragging-the-shutter.html