Balancing Ambient Light with Flash
Or, “How to Mangle Your Head By Reading Too Many Articles”
Last week I treated myself to the rather saucy Sigma 50mm 1.4 lens, as well as a Nissin Di622 flash unit. Being the control freak that I am, I wanted to ensure that I was attaining correct exposure using the flash unit, so I’ve probably read about 50 articles over the last few days dealing with mixing ambient light with flash.
Now my head really hurts.
Basically I’m shooting in manual mode, setting the flash to TTL metering, taking a meter reading for the ambient light, under / overexposing the ambient light via aperture / shutter speed / ISO, and then taking the shot (hoping the flash will correctly expose the subject now that the ambient exposure has been set).
My head still hurts.
However, I shall continue to absorb as much information as possible to understand this subject, and hopefully some beautifully exposed pictures will appear on this blog very soon.
Meanwhile, these people seem to know what they’re doing:
