Flash photography tip: Use aperture priority in changing conditions

Sunday 12 May 2024, 22:44 by Elja Trum | 2,709 views | 1 comment

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Are you photographing in a location where you combine flash with ambient light, and where the ambient light changes a lot? Your camera's aperture priority mode (A or Av) is often a useful solution.

Michelle - f/5.6, 1/125s, 100 ISO @ 50mm
You can leave your flash on the same setting for the flash exposure, while your camera now automatically sets the shutter speed based on the available ambient light.

Do keep your camera's flash sync speed in mind. You must not go above it, and your camera often controls this automatically. If there is too much light, you can still end up with overexposed photos. So you still need to keep an eye on things, but it gives you a little more automatic flexibility.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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kiwi wrote on Thursday 16 May 2024 at 11:46 | reply
thank you very much
Translated from Dutch.

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