Comments on: Mastering Your Flash 101 – High Speed Sync

By: denver photographers

denver photographers — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:29:14 +0000

Very very nice tutorial on setting up this portrait shot. I hope someday you'll show us on how to handle more than one speed light set up.

By: kgarrison

kgarrison — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:33:06 +0000

Correct. The caption should have read 1/8000th (I have corrected it) and yes, you certainly would want to use a lower ISO but going from ISO 400 to ISO 100 in this case would have let me move from 1/8000 to 1/2000 which is still well into high speed sync range so it really didn't matter in this case.
-Kerry

By: JHKDP

JHKDP — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:01:09 +0000

Couple questions about the first series of photos. If the second photo is "exposed for the background" at 1/8000 f/4 ISO 400, how can the third photo also be "exposed for the background" at 1/1000 f/4 ISO 400 when it was established by the first photo that those settings resulted in a blown out background?

As I understand it the effective range of the flash is 175' max and would have little effect on the background.(See my photo link above, full pop at 150 feet to the car and only the reflective decals were light by the flash). Moreover if it did, it would continue to over expose the background. So can I assume that it is a typo under the third photo and the settings should have been 1/8000 f/4 ISO 400 with the flash to properly expose the subject in the foreground?

Also curious why yo would use ISO 400 with so much ambient light and a flash? is that just to force the high speed sync? for portrait work, I thought you tried to use the lowest ISO possible while maintaining a reasonable shutter speed. If you used ISO 100 you would be able to use a slower shutter speed and avoid possibly high speed sync

By: Denver Photographer

Denver Photographer — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:01:51 +0000

I'm so jealous of those new pocket wizards… I want some for my nikon gear!

By: kgarrison

kgarrison — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:46:52 +0000

Post some pics! Let's see how you used it. Thanks for the comments.

By: Heber

Heber — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:41:57 +0000

Thank you for this article, I found it very informative and was very helpful on a recent shoot.
Great website too, lots of great content.

By: kgarrison

kgarrison — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:00:04 +0000

Just wait, this is just the beginning of a complete series on using flash.

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By: Harry Hilders

Harry Hilders — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:20:37 +0000

Wow, I must say I'm not really used to using flash. But this seems really nice, I'm totally going to try this with my 450D!

By: kgarrison

kgarrison — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:20:51 +0000

Thanks, I have a whole series of Mastering Your Flash 101 articles all coming. I hope this really helps people to grasp and embrace flash. I am not going to organize a photowalk this year but I will probably attend one.

By: kgarrison

kgarrison — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:19:28 +0000

Sent JC my workshop outline tonight. Hope to make it out there soon.

By: Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:05:07 +0000

I have this aversion to learning all the flash terminology for some reason, but you have very clearly explained it. Will I see you at the Orange Photo Walk this year? We met at the last one.

By: Iram Rolon

Iram Rolon — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:42:08 +0000

Nice one, thanks you
We miss you here in Miami