Mixed lighting Help

C

cargo

Suspended / Banned
Messages
6,645
Name
Gary
Edit My Images
Yes
Hello "Talented people"
Please don't laugh at my model :-)
Giggles aside.
I purchased some wallpaper with the intent of using it as a cheap background as you see it done so well on the internet.
Anyways I had a practice earlier and decided to add a table lamp to add some atmosphere and hopefully begin to build a scene.
Trouble is I am not sure how to deal with the different light sources.

My settings were.

Flash to camera right. Yn 560 manual 1/64th in 24 softbox.
Camera 450d
Manual mode
AV 5.6
Shutter 1/80th
WB Cloudy
ISO 800

I arrived at these settings as I needed to get the tungsten lampshade to show and didnt know any other way. I was hoping to keep the shutter to sync speed ?

Am I on the right lines to acheiving an interior moody type photo ? I think most of you will know the look I mean.

Gaz

Wallpaper_test_800x600.jpg
 
Talented people...
Well, that rules me out:)

I'm not sure what your question is here, if it relates to the effect of the lampshade then I think you're pretty much there, but if you want it to make a greater contribution then you just use a longer shutter speed - just remember that you use the lens aperture to control the effect of the flash and you then increase or decrease the shutter speed to change the effect of any continuous lighting
 
Thanks Gary for your quick reply.
Yes I am grasping the idea of shutter and the ambient but it becomes harder when you throw a moving person in the equation does it not?
eg: @ 1/80th or slower there is chance for blur_____I am assuming. Am I right in thinking that if I didnt want to lower the shutter speed anymore then upping the iso, which on a 450d is best limited to iso 800 me thinks is the only option left ?


Gaz
 
Hmm...
Increasing the ISO inevitably affects image quality, more so on some cameras than on others.

But with this, it won't help anyway because increasing the ISO just makes the sensor more sensitive to light - of all kinds, which means that if you double the ISO it will have the same effect as doubling the length of time that the shutter is open but will also double the effect of the flash.

Your answer is to put the camera on a tripod and leave the ISO as low as you can.
 
Cheers Gary.
Off course it would effect any light present. What was I thinking. :-)
It is so easy to get confused with this stuff.I tend to think to much into it.
Your first answer should be my mantra"shutter for ambient f stop for fash"

Thanks again

Gaz
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top