Camera Settings Using Off Camera Flash

bdavis · May 13, 2009

No flash is crappy if you know how to use it. Sounds like you're just upset that your "idea" wont work. F/22 combined with my sync speed of 1/200 of a second would be able to give me depth of focus and help overpower the ambient, but at F/22 it would drop my flash power so low that it would barely register, I would need way more than full power and besides even if it did work with full power, I would eat up batteries and have terrible recycle times. I'm not even sure if an Alienbee could pull of F/22 much less my "crappy" Nikon flash, for that matter I doubt your cannon flash can either.

KmH · May 13, 2009

bdavis said:
In fact I'm not selling them at all. I'm doing free promotional band photography to help them out and help myself build a portfolio.

Model Release Primer

Anyone wanting to publish those images, sold or not, will want a legally executed model release for their legal protection.

You need to know: the, 'I'll give it all away for free to get started' business model rarely works.

gsgary · May 13, 2009

bdavis said:
No flash is crappy if you know how to use it. Sounds like you're just upset that your "idea" wont work. F/22 combined with my sync speed of 1/200 of a second would be able to give me depth of focus and help overpower the ambient, but at F/22 it would drop my flash power so low that it would barely register, I would need way more than full power and besides even if it did work with full power, I would eat up batteries and have terrible recycle times. I'm not even sure if an Alienbee could pull of F/22 much less my "crappy" Nikon flash, for that matter I doubt your cannon flash can either.

I not upset, i have made it work with a single person but it probably wasn't that bright

bdavis · May 13, 2009

I'm just saying it would make lighting difficult. I think I could probably pull off this shot with an aperture of f/5 to f/8 or so.

gsgary · May 13, 2009

bdavis said:
I'm just saying it would make lighting difficult. I think I could probably pull off this shot with an aperture of f/5 to f/8 or so.

I look forward to seeing them, ive got a shoot with a 4 piece rock band soon but they want it in a studio

JerryPH · May 13, 2009

bdavis said:
help myself build a portfolio.

That's why. You are going to be displaying to the public pictures of a band. You want to protect yourself. Besides, you would be foolish not to do this. If in 2 years this band makes it big and someone offers you $10,000 for the photos, you could not.

Don't be foolish, it is EASY to get signatures on a model release.