HILARIOUS!

[AMOMENT]

Is CC: NOT MY PHOTOS. I CAMPARE MYSELF TO HER.this the same Texas friend you're talking about? If it is you should know by now that is not a good example to follow.

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......not the same friend. That friend is not a prof by any means. We just learn together and share the love of this hobby.​

 

[gsgary]

Is CC: NOT MY PHOTOS. I CAMPARE MYSELF TO HER.this the same Texas friend you're talking about? If it is you should know by now that is not a good example to follow.

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......not the same friend. That friend is not a prof by any means. We just learn together and share the love of this hobby.​

Her focus is worse than yours

 

[AMOMENT]

Meg, to be honest I was surprised that those settings did affect it because when in manual, I would think the ISO is overrided. The pictures on the other site that I was referring to weren't with my speedlight because I didn't have it yet. (the ones with the rollerskates)

 

[eUgalde13]

I'll come back on page 20

This should've been locked after post count #2 but I think page 11 maybe 12 is as far as this is gonna go

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[gsgary]

I'll come back on page 20

This should've been locked after post count #2 but I think page 11 maybe 12 is as far as this is gonna go

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What and spoil everones fun

 

[AMOMENT]

ABABYSEAN: (you said to try these settings) but I thought everyone advised against shooting lower than 1/200


"ABABYSEAN SAID "Set your camera to 1/40, iso 400, and F4

Tell your little sweet girl to dance, jump, play some music get her into it, and then put your flash, point it about 75 degrees behind you, you can use TTL. This will have it bounce off the wall behind you and fall nice onto her.

 

[Vtec44]

ABABYSEAN: (you said to try these settings) but I thought everyone advised against shooting lower than 1/200

This is why I don't think you understand each element of the exposure triangle, how they work, and how to apply them into your photography.

 

[gsgary]

ABABYSEAN: (you said to try these settings) but I thought everyone advised against shooting lower than 1/200


"ABABYSEAN SAID "Set your camera to 1/40, iso 400, and F4

Tell your little sweet girl to dance, jump, play some music get her into it, and then put your flash, point it about 75 degrees behind you, you can use TTL. This will have it bounce off the wall behind you and fall nice onto her.

The only times to shoot 1/40 with flash is in a dark studio or if you are dragging the shutter like you see in nightclubs

 

[eUgalde13]

ABABYSEAN: (you said to try these settings) but I thought everyone advised against shooting lower than 1/200

"ABABYSEAN SAID "Set your camera to 1/40, iso 400, and F4

Tell your little sweet girl to dance, jump, play some music get her into it, and then put your flash, point it about 75 degrees behind you, you can use TTL. This will have it bounce off the wall behind you and fall nice onto her.

You should listen to your light meter not what anybody tells you unless you are in the same room with the same light and probably same equipment

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[ababysean]

ABABYSEAN: (you said to try these settings) but I thought everyone advised against shooting lower than 1/200


"ABABYSEAN SAID "Set your camera to 1/40, iso 400, and F4

Tell your little sweet girl to dance, jump, play some music get her into it, and then put your flash, point it about 75 degrees behind you, you can use TTL. This will have it bounce off the wall behind you and fall nice onto her.

You need to know why I said to try those... You are going to shoot a toy, something that is NOT moving. You are going to expose the photo with flash... Flash FREEZES motion.

Do it with the toy, then have your daughter jump and dance and spin around in a room, use the same settings, bounce the flash like I said, 75 degree behing you off a wall.... have her jump, spin in a circle... just do it. Dont be inches from her, fill the frame with the room. If you are outside, using 1/40th of a second with kids is a big NO! but when you are using flash to expose the photo, well just give it a try.

I really think you should honestly put the flash away until you have a grasp on what each part each setting does.... leave your kid at home, get an adult friend, like an hour before sunset, wrap her/him up real nice in a big winter coat if it is cold, and go shoot and try to expose the photo properly in camera, using your meter and histogram.

 

[gsgary]

ABABYSEAN: (you said to try these settings) but I thought everyone advised against shooting lower than 1/200


"ABABYSEAN SAID "Set your camera to 1/40, iso 400, and F4

Tell your little sweet girl to dance, jump, play some music get her into it, and then put your flash, point it about 75 degrees behind you, you can use TTL. This will have it bounce off the wall behind you and fall nice onto her.

You need to know why I said to try those... You are going to shoot a toy, something that is NOT moving. You are going to expose the photo with flash... Flash FREEZES motion.

Do it with the toy, then have your daughter jump and dance and spin around in a room, use the same settings, bounce the flash like I said, 75 degree behing you off a wall.... have her jump, spin in a circle... just do it. Dont be inches from her, fill the frame with the room. If you are outside, using 1/40th of a second with kids is a big NO! but when you are using flash to expose the photo, well just give it a try.

I really think you should honestly put the flash away until you have a grasp on what each part each setting does.... leave your kid at home, get an adult friend, like an hour before sunset, wrap her/him up real nice in a big winter coat if it is cold, and go shoot and try to expose the photo properly in camera, using your meter and histogram.

The only time it will freeze motion is if there is no ambient light

 

[ababysean]

OMG! ok if she is in a dark room at night, if she puts her camera on 1/40 f4 iso 400 and takes a picture, I'd love to see how much ambient light comes in?

I'm just having her do an exercise to see how bouncing the flash can diffuse the light vs pointing it straight at the kids face.

Again, let her do it and look at the images. I could not understand how 1/40 would not get blur in the photo with my kid moving around everywhere UNTIL I tried it.

I honestly think OP should put up the flash until she understands shutter speed, ap, iso and how they affect the image before adding flash, but I do think this is a pretty neat exercise to understand that flash freezes motion IF it is used as the only exposure, I'm not talking about going outside and shooting 1/40 with the flash I'm talking about sitting on the couch at night inside....

 

[OrionsByte]

The only time it will freeze motion is if there is no ambient light

... or if your settings are not exposing enough of the ambient light to make a difference.

I haven't read this whole thread, and I haven't been lurking on this site enough recently to know what other drama has been going on in your other threads, but it seems to me like you (AMOMENT) are trying to drink from a fire hose. Slow down! The advice you're getting isn't contradictory, is contextual. Shooting at f/5.6 makes perfect sense in one context, and is absolute nonsense in another. 1/40 may be too slow for some subjects, and too fast for others. The way to find out which is which is trial and error, and the only way trial and error works is if you change one variable at a time, so you can directly observe and understand the effects of that one variable.

Like I said I haven't read this whole thread and I don't really plan to, and I'm not going to go digging up your old threads, but from the little bits I've seen over the past couple weeks of skimming posts, I really think you'd do well to slow down.

 

[mwcfarms]

What's the k.i.s.s principle? Honestly curious.

 

[tirediron]

Keep It Simple Stupid