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Hi guys,

So I havnt posted for a while then with my dilema last night remembered that you guys were awesome! so the problem is, I am shooting an internal fashion magazine for a fashion company and since it's within an office, the lighting is tricky. Now i have portable studio lights. One constant with a soft box and two which are triggered from my SB700. I find that when the flash gun fires in one direction everything is too bright but in any other direction....dark! I have the setting on TTL. I fiddled with the exposure stops both on the camera and flash, cranked up the fnumber (shooting in M) and with the power on the lights themseves.

With a plain white background, surely the flash gun shouldnt have THAT much effect on the exposure of the picture...what I am I missing here?

Thank you!!
 
You should switch your flashes into manual and adjust the power to suit.. Just to clarify, how many lights do you have and are they all strobes?
 
Firstly, you shouldn't really be trying to mix TTL flash with manual flash, and if I read correctly, certainly not with the continuous lighting.

Don't get me wrong, it is possible to do both those things, but it requires a lot of discipline and its quite complex.

Get the flashgun on manual, start by using just the flashgun and get the exposure right on the subject, then add a 2nd flash, then the 3rd. Now don't change anything, and just for fun, add the continuous light (anywhere you like) take a photo - you can't see it can you.;)
 
Edit: crossed post with Phil.

If you mix flash and continuous lights, the flash will blitz everything else and metering on auto-TTL will be all over the place.

It can be done, if you know what you're doing and the light from all sources is the same colour. In manual, with shutter speed dropped to balance the continous lights with the more powerful flash, but this is hardly a good way to go about it.

If you're expecting professional results for business purposes, then you need to be professional about it ;)
 
kirif1 said:
, I am shooting an internal fashion magazine for a fashion company and since it's within an office, the lighting is tricky.
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Get out of the office and find a more creative space

Shopping centre, gallery, in the street etc...
 
Thanks for all your advice. Considering it was a project for an inhouse magazine, shooting within the office was key.

Light from all sources was the same colour. While it was more of a fun project considering it is all inhouse, we are aiming for professional - which is why I lugged in studio lights, flash guns and a professional camera.

The lighting problems I was experiencing was nothing like what I had come across in the studio which is why I asked. I should clarify that I had the Sb700 in manual and still found it to be all over the place which is why i switched.

In regards to the continuous light, I used that as a hairlight and to light up the background in the end , but had it there in the first place because I didn't initially have two strobes and needed more light - so mentioned everything I had in my initial post.

I got there in the end and am happy with the results.

Please don't think I am ungrateful for advice because I was at a loss and needed help...but I was a little disappointed by the tone of this thread, I felt very patronised. I think there should be more awareness in general that not everyone with a problem who comes here for help is a complete amateur.
 
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