From the course: Lighting with Flash: On Location from Close Up to Portrait

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Refining the lighting and exposure

Refining the lighting and exposure

From the course: Lighting with Flash: On Location from Close Up to Portrait

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Refining the lighting and exposure

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David: if you'll notice, we've got fluorescents and we've got L, LED lights on and such. We had a problem with that when we were using the fire as a light source, but now that we are shooting just with pure flash power, it's no problem at all. Because I'm going to be shooting at a 250th of a second, probably at f56 or f8. That is so far above these lights sources that for me, they don't even exist. Hm, going to have to swap that. (INAUDIBLE) (SOUND). So, I'm using my off camera cord to trigger this one light. And then the other lights will be triggered optically using the slaves built in to the SB800s. (SOUND) Very sensitive down there. Okay. So, let's just get some white levels here. Going to 2 50th of a second. I'm going to drop down to ISO200 which is my, best made of ISO. (SOUND) See how the door looks. Way dark. So I'm going to need more power out of that. Maybe 2 more stops, 3 more stops. I'm going from a 64th to a 1 16th power, still a really low level (SOUND). Now, the door's…

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