Flash photography tip: Set your camera manually

Sunday 21 April 2024, 22:55 by Elja Trum | 2,409 views | 0 comments

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

By setting your flash manually, you have complete control over the flash power, but you need to combine this with manually setting your camera. So set your camera to M mode and choose the desired aperture, shutter speed and ISO yourself.

Angela - f/9, 1/160s, 100 ISO @ 43mm
Especially when you are photographing indoors, it is usually a matter of setting it once. After that, you can enjoy taking photos without constantly having to think about the settings. Until you want something different, of course. By choosing your settings manually, you ensure consistent exposure in your photos.

I would leave focusing on automatic. This is something I usually leave to my camera, and it also has no effect on the exposure in your photo.

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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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