From the course: Photography 101: Shooting Macros and Close-Ups

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Using high-speed sync to get light in a macro shot

Using high-speed sync to get light in a macro shot

From the course: Photography 101: Shooting Macros and Close-Ups

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Using high-speed sync to get light in a macro shot

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When you think flash photography, you probably are thinking about shooting indoors. Flash is there because you don't have enough natural light and so you need to add light to the scene. However, I'm going to show you how bringing the flash outdoors can be a huge benefit. Let's take a look at the scene that I'm, setting up right here. I have this really cool beautiful pink flower, and I want to take a picture of this kind of going straight down. So I'm going to have pretty shallow depth of field, and a really nice falloff of all the lovely pink behind it. So let's start by shooting without a flash and let's see what we get. I'm shooting here again with the Canon 5D Mark II, and the 100 millimeter F.28 macro lens. This macro lens allows me to get really, really close to my subject, and if I want, a super shallow depth of field. Now today, I'm going to shoot it at about F6.3, so, pretty moderate amount of depth of field. But remember with macro, even with an aperture like F6.3 when you…

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