C&C on a Portrait Please

MTVision · Nov 21, 2011

Daf said:
Thanks everyone!

I think I do understand the exposure triangle theory, but I'm not very good at implementing it yet. Sounds like I was pretty close and that is encouraging. I'm getting a lot of contradicting advice from my camera and monitors I think. I actually thought the image as too dark, imagine my surprise when you guys were discussing it being slightly over exposed. As far as what the camera is telling me some shots are under-exposed according to the bar meter in the view finder yet yield very bright in the preview window. Then on my monitor they appear dark. I think my preview may be too bright.

My model is getting antsy and hard to control so my experiments may have to wait a bit but I did get a few more off. This one is at 50mm f/5.6 (as per suggested) 1/160th ISO 400. The cover on the chair is blown out to the right of the subject - man! This lighting thing is a real juggling act and role of the dice in one!

Thanks for the replies! I will continue to work on this.

Daf

You should turn the brightness down on your cameras LCD. My pictures always looked really bright when in reality they were underexposed!

JKF159 · Nov 21, 2011

gsgary said:
There is a lot of ambient light in the shot due to your settings 1/60 and iso800 and F10, when shooting ambient and flash your aperture controls Flash exposure and shutter speed controls ambient, so drop you iso to 100

Hi gsgary. I think I might be misunderstanding your post. Ambient exposure will be controlled by aperture OR shutterspeed. If either one is changed then the ambient exposure will change regardless whether a flash is used. The aperture controls flash exposure only if the flash itself is set to manual. Even if the camera is set to manual the flash will still be using TTL exposure control unless the flash is set to manual control. If the aperture is changed the camera will adjust flash to give the proper exposure unless the flash is set to manual. Is this not correct or did I misunderstand your post? I'm not familiar with the Nikon equipment mentioned as I use Canon but I'm assuming that it uses TTL exposure control on flash.