Hello Shel, When using studio lights, it is common to be shooting around F8-16 because of the power of the flash heads. The faster the shutter synch, at those small f stops, the less ambient light becomes part of the equation. If you are relying on the flashes for all of the lighting effect, it is nice to shoot as Paul describes.
When I was shooting the Pentax 67 with it's 1/30 flash synch, I needed to try to keep the room dark and only use the modeling lights in the flash heads. HTH, Bruce Monday, March 8, 2004, 10:19:21 AM, you wrote: SB> OK, I suppose this is some "flash fact," so forgive my SB> ignorance. How does the shutter speed "kill" ambient SB> light? What do you mean by kill? SB> Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> Good idea for the studio shoots. I always shoot at 1/125th, because I >> like as much shutter speed as possible to kill the ambient light.
