I slow down to capture ambient light if I'm shooting with a single on-camera flash or sometimes even with a single off camera flash. In my studio I shoot with three off camera flashes using various devices to arrange the light the way I want it to fall. When I shoot off a tripod, I turn all the ambient light off. But I sometimes like to shoot hand held and move from one angle to the next. In those situations I leave a single overhead flourescent light on to make it easier to focus. To maintain color balance it's important that this light source is not significant. Hence, the higher shutter speed.
Paul
On Mar 8, 2004, at 6:31 PM, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
How funny! I'm the total opposite, I prefer to slow it right down to CAPTURE ambient light and if I don't want it around, I usually shoot at night time.
tan.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Dayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2004 4:36 AM To: Shel Belinkoff Subject: Re: Frightening *istD experience
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.
