I have just visited your site for the first time (thanks to a link from someone on SWPP forums)

Having seen just a few of your set ups and set up info. I know that I will be spending many a happy time at your site

Fantastic photography and explanations – keep up the great work
John

Matt … check the Amazon link for some of the LED video lights. They are quite affordable.

This was shot in the Kimpton Hotel in Portland, OR.

Neil vN

Two questions:

1) Is there such a thing as a “beginners video light”? Something in the $100-200 range that I can start with and learn the basics?

2) I’m dying to know – where on earth is this room?? It’s fantastic!

Thanks for all you do.

Matt in Seattle, WA

Artur … I didn’t take a meter reading. The available light is entirely under-exposed at those settings. I simply let the camera’s TTL flash exposure metering take care of it.

Neil vN

Are 1/160th @ f4 @ 800 ISO, the settings for the non flash photo? And where did you point your camera to take the exposure? Evaluative, matrix metering? And with the flash photo you just turn on the flash?

Thanks!

Brooke … I see where my description is ambiguous. What I meant to add (and should’ve been a more complete description), is that at the point where the available light is correctly exposed for, then we can’t / don’t want to use flash as the main source of light. The flash then needs to be fill-flash … and this implies dialing down the FEC as a consequence.

I hope it makes more sense now. But as stated there, you’re correct, dialing down the FEC doesn’t seem a solution, since the TTL flash exposure would follow any changes in settings … and this works very well, while we under-expose the available light.

Neil vN

Why in this situation would you need to dial down the FEC? Wouldn’t the TTL system do this automatically? Isn’t that the point of TTL?

Hi there Derrick .. I bounced my flash over my left shoulder. And I had the black flag foamie thing on my flash .. but mainly not to blitz people behind me in the eyes.

Neil vN