Studio Lighting Umbrella
Posted on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in Photography
Photography lighting/umbrella question? need help!?
I am very into photography and trying to build a small studio in my basement. I purchased a cowboy studio 2 umbrella strobe lighting kit and received it today. I went to play around with it and take some pictures of my son but when I put it on a manual setting the bottom half of the screen is black! Do I have defective equipment or am I doing something wrong??? I am not familiar with this kind of lighting at all, I like to teach myself these things but I just can't figure this out! Frustrated!
Your sync speed in incorrect. Your camera needs to be in either manual mode, or shutter priority. Manual is best. Your camera manual will tell you the maximum sync speed you can use, although you may get 1/3rd-2/3rds stop faster if you experiment. The maximum sync speed with be somewhere between 1/30th to 1/250th, depending on your specific camera. You don't have to shoot at that speed, anything lower will also work. You use shutter speed to control ambient light, the faster the shutter speed, the less ambient light you get. If the flashes are the only light source, you can use any shutter speed up to and including max sync. Use aperture to control depth of field.
You cannot shoot in an auto exposure mode, because the camera has no idea the flashes are present, and will not allow for them in the exposure.
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