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Choosing the right flash modes

Choosing the right flash modes - Speedlite Flash Tutorial

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Choosing the right flash modes

- There are a couple of flash modes that I use all the time, and a couple I've never used, although I think it would be fun to try out sometime. Let's stick with the meat and potato modes for now. These will have you ready to make pictures at the next wedding or birthday party you go to, or the next portrait session. The first mode we use all the time is ETTL. This one chooses the right amount of light based on what it sees in the frame. You can alter that amount of light to your liking by changing the flash exposure compensation, like I've shown you in a previous movie. Manual mode lets you set how bright the flash is, and it stays that bright until you change it. This is shown as a fraction of the flash's maximum power, which is always one over one. This is easy to use with the camera, because it changes and F-stops really simply. Changing camera settings by one stop is always doubling or halving the brightness. One over one is full power in the flash. One stop less power is half as…

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