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When I saw this dramatic sky with the approaching storm during our recent shoot\u00a0at Coney Island<\/a>, I knew I wanted to photograph our model against it. \u00a0By the time I actually started taking photos, the raindrops were already spattering around us. So there was little time to work.<\/p>\n I knew I wanted a brooding sky. \u00a0Now, depending on how I chose my exposure, I could’ve had a much the sky appear much brighter, or just a little bit brighter than shown here. \u00a0There’s a whole range of possibilities in how I could’ve exposed for my background, and we can choose a wide range of settings.\u00a0\u00a0In this sense there really isn’t any “incorrect exposure” for this particular background. Of course, it doesn’t make sense to choose our settings such that we’d over-expose our model.<\/p>\n This is idea holds true while we consider the sky as our main background. \u00a0The street areas, and the amusement park areas are indeed under-exposed. \u00a0They do appear too dark if I had chosen that as my specific background. But the sky as such, isn’t under-exposed. \u00a0This might seem a semantic difference, but it is an important distinction to make, in that quite often there is no specific under- or over-exposure, but just a way that YOU decide to expose for certain tones. \u00a0I simple chose to expose for the sky as darker tones. \u00a0And I could’ve placed them “anywhere”, even as near-black.<\/p>\n Here is the test shot without flash …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now it becomes a simple matter of adding enough flash to our subject for correct exposure. \u00a0For me, in this case it would be where the skin tones appear bright enough.<\/p>\n camera settings: \u00a01\/250 @ f11 @ 200 ISO About the post-processing of the image<\/a> at the top: This article also relates to two recent posts: More articles on off-camera flash … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" flash photography – background exposure and flash When I saw this dramatic sky with the approaching storm during our recent shoot\u00a0at Coney Island, I knew I wanted to photograph our model against it. \u00a0By the time I actually started taking photos, the raindrops were already spattering around us. So there was little time to work. Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30139,"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":[15,22,24,31,1],"tags":[54,55,56],"yst_prominent_words":[1555,1347,1493,1561,2926,8916,8918,1337,8915,2064,1583,8917,1841,1573,8898,1839],"class_list":{"0":"post-3035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-flash-photography","8":"category-lighting","9":"category-models","10":"category-photo-shoot","11":"category-uncategorized","12":"tag-flash-photography-technique","13":"tag-flash-photography-techniques","14":"tag-flash-photography-tips","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035"}],"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=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45491,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/45491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/meagan-lee\/NV1_1547.jpg\")
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\nflash: direct off-camera manual flash without a modifier.<\/p>\n
\nI cloned out some distracting details such as cracks in the road, and the lamp-posts to the left. \u00a0Then I used Imagenomic’s Portraiture plug-in, and Topaz Adjust<\/a> (Spicify), and \u00a0Nik Color-Efex Pro (Tonal Contrast) on various layers at different opacities.<\/p>\n
\n– balancing flash and ambient light – where do we even start?<\/a>
\n– balancing flash with ambient exposure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n