{"id":1482,"date":"2009-08-27T21:48:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T01:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetneil.com\/tangents\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2018-01-03T19:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T23:02:34","slug":"when-your-flash-fails-to-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/when-your-flash-fails-to-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"when your flash fails to fire .."},"content":{"rendered":"

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What do you do with an image that is under-exposed but there is a certain moment that you love?<\/p>\n

Well, perhaps you get lucky that when you convert it to B&W and crank up the exposure and embrace the noise \/ digital grain … and all this adds\u00a0to the\u00a0mood and in this case even poignancy of the moment.<\/p>\n

Here is the original unedited image of the bride dancing with her dad …<\/p>\n

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I was shooting a little too fast for my flash to keep up, and got the occasional under-exposed frame when the flash didn’t fire.\u00a0 As I often do, I try to keep the ambient light 2 stops or so under, and then use TTL \u00a0flash to bring up the exposure on my subject.<\/p>\n

Even though\u00a0I did get lucky here, I did help it in my favor by how I position myself in relation to my subject and the background.\u00a0 I do try to\u00a0place myself so that I can use some background light to give a sense of place, and help giving the image depth as well.\u00a0 Doing so helped here in creating a lighter background when I pulled up the exposure by 2 stops to give “correct exposure” on the image.\u00a0 With the background now blowing out, it gives an ethereal look to the image, which for me, enhances it.<\/p>\n

For us gear-heads:
\nNikon D3;\u00a0\u00a0 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S
\n1\/60th @ f2.8 @ 2500 ISO<\/p>\n

At such a high ISO, under-exposed by two stops .. the digital grain \/ noise will be there.\u00a0 But really, the\u00a0noise?\u00a0 Does anyone even notice the noise here?\u00a0 Look at the photograph again … and feel it instead. The mood and the moment. It’s all there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ click on the image to see a larger version ] What do you do with an image that is under-exposed but there is a certain moment that you love? Well, perhaps you get lucky that when you convert it to B&W and crank up the exposure and embrace the noise \/ digital grain … Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,1,45],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-digital-imaging","8":"category-flash-photography","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"category-wedding-photography","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24590,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/24590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}