Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 8

January 30th, 2010

Posted by admin in digital photography | 25 Comments »


In this episode Mark shows you how to use your Sekonic light meter to balance flash and ambient light.

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25 Responses

  1. jenard007 Says:

    very informative! iSAW power!

  2. phirepix Says:

    Do you have to correct for the fluorescent above the model or does the flash with a higher kelvin over rule the bulbs?

  3. SophguTaylorSwift Says:

    Cant handle the eye soh business! Please say eye ess oh like the rest of the educated world!

  4. onagus2008 Says:

    Thanks for the great video. But I must say that I liked the very first photo that you took overall.

  5. ramanaprasad369 Says:

    Great video. very useful.

  6. domdog31 Says:

    Would you call the home security company “ADT” like an acronym or spell it out….i agree that everyone knows what it means when said “eye-ess-ohh” but the correct way to say it is “I-S-O” most people say it so quickly that it sounds like its being sounded out

  7. flipwhiptofuf Says:

    Considering ISO is an acronym, Eye Ess Oh is probably right; but does it really matter? We know what it means however it’s said.

  8. domdog31 Says:

    Talk to me after you earn your degree in photography…..I don’t believe in using the word pro like you do either. I bet you also think your a ‘pro’ because you shoot with a D3….get over yourself

  9. colinstu Says:

    it is pronounced “eye-so”. Go into any room with pros, that’s what they say. Don’t fight it, just submit, you’re not going to win.

  10. domdog31 Says:

    Great Video, but ISO is not pronounced ‘eye-so’. You speak each letter like “eye” “ess” ‘oh” I-S-O…….

  11. nerudaad Says:

    Very helpful. Thanks a lot!

  12. JohanLinden1989 Says:

    great set of videos. Much obliged

  13. 1Shiznit Says:

    Haha.. whoa… Caroline! I’ve shot Caroline before. She is very nice. She lives in Arizona but makes the occassional trip to L.A. which is where I shot with her.

  14. BassEden Says:

    …I absolutely love your video lessons, but what’s happen with “I like f/6.3″ original statement? Where did it go and why??

  15. l33thustla Says:

    great tips… :) now I have to spend more money haha thanks.

  16. juldog28 Says:

    love your videos. it’s hard to find lessons in english out here in japan. you’re a lifesaver!

  17. desmondlaugh Says:

    great you guys are posting vids again. You guys give such useful information. Can’t wait for the next set please if possible try to post some new stuff soon. Your vids are excellent training tools

    Thanks

    Desmond

  18. alexdg Says:

    Thanks for a great video! However…

    Shutter speed doesn’t affect amount of light from the flash because flash happens very rapidly. The only way to affect flash exposure is by changing the aperture. When you were slowing down the shutter, the light meter was reducing your aperture, which resulted in more ambient and less flash.

    So the end result is exactly as described, only difference is that technically flash exposure was affected by smaller aperture :)

    Please correct me if i’m wrong.

  19. shmeldrick Says:

    ok I thought it might be something like that.

  20. snapfactory Says:

    This is a problem with the shutter speed of the video camera. Usually the flash fires between frames so it doesn’t show up in the video. But the flash is actually firing. :)

  21. shmeldrick Says:

    great videos, but why is it that in most of your videos when you fire a flash, you don’t usually see it on the video?

  22. ProPhotoHouston02 Says:

    Always great videos…

    -Rome

  23. mozdave Says:

    Good to see you’re posting videos again!

  24. shutterbug2dogs Says:

    This helps tremendously! Thank you for your tutorials – they are the best!

  25. kaisergrendel Says:

    I actually prefer the 20% balance – any higher and the ambient light (which is beautiful) takes the backseat too much.

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