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now in this video I'm gonna show you how you can balance the ambient light
with flash but with a bit of a difference
normally the ambient light is the brightest part of your page A and the
flash is just
filling in but in this case are ambient light is gonna come from
these little guys yep Christmas lights these are gonna be the ambient light
very dim and we're gonna balance it with flash
that's very bright let's see how we get on so
my a little festive Christmas lights they're gonna be the background
all the picture now we're gonna bloody that a focus using a technique known as
Bokeh
a combined at how to do the basic mechanics in Bokeh
by checking out my episode amazing Bokeh and played 114
here on Adorama TV that's the background
but we need a foreground subject photograph as well are set up now
now it really doesn't matter what your subject is the technique is gonna be the
same
I've gone for a Christmas the subject that fits in with the Christmas the
background
and I will with I found this little to tweak from the in the garden
about it all seems to work quite well now I've got this a fair way away from
the background that important to get those nice blurry
orbs a bokeh all we need to do now is
set the camera up right so what I've done
is icon nice in close I focus just on my four Grand object
the lens is wide open F for
and I'm on a hundred ISO at all the right ingredients
a great Bokeh the only thing left to do is to choose
shutter speed and I'm gonna do that myself using manual mode we're not in
use any automatic knives
so one is manual well which one to mix different light sources
very very dim ambient light very bright
flash and menu is the way to go to get the maximum control and I'm gonna need
it
okay so I'm gonna start with how well what goodies
15th in a second why not good place to start and they look pretty dim lights a
they think the second Hannah yeah every day Monday
and parity darker than I thought I thought that would be
place that's not even close let's go for two more stops
light they will choose a quarter of a second
and that's getting better
has still dark and I wanted I'll be honest with you hi I'm gonna go for a
scan for a full one second exposure
can it be that dark yes they can that looks about right
so I'm happy with that exposure and that is my first exposure
the foreground object has come out as a silhouette and that makes sense think
about it
the background is bright ish well is a one-second anyway
and more light is on the background that is on the foreground object
so of course the foreground object comes out as a silhouette now if you don't
wanna silhouette deny
with actually quite like that said wetlook we definitely want to like this
subject
so with a light it with flash got a flash in
headin now because when mixing different light sources
I need to be in full control we're in manual for the camera
and I'm gonna be in manual for the flash that means I can control the flash
how output I'm gonna die and it down to well gotta start somewhere celeste star
in a 30-second
power is in slave mode which means all I need to do is
pop up a little flash on the this Canon 60d
and that will trigger the flash gun to fire when I press the shutter
okay say let's take a picture it's still one second exposure
that's not gonna change we've established that's the right exposure
for the background
not gonna change it but what we're trying to establish is the right
exposure
of flash on the foreground subject and
wow that was way too much okay say
yet not that much flash so lets dow this down
we're gonna come down quite a bit iraq we're going up right to the bottom so
just go down is as low as this unit will guide at 228 then it normal power
and all I do is I take another shot
stay one second exposure remember that isn't going to change
and that looks okay but it's still slightly bright
now I can't make this any lower so what what am I gonna do
well facing a minute due to think about the the setup I got here the mechanics
of it
this little pop-up flash is firing and triggering the the main flash to fire
thing is it produces a tiny amount to light when it does it
but we're on such a lie how with this flash
that tiny amount from the pop-up it adding to the picture
to get around it I'm gonna get my hand and just cover the flash
know completely I'm not gonna put it right on the flash because that would
trigger the the main unit
to put in front another light from the pop-up
hit are subject okay we can
so it's still fired the main flash but less light hit the main object
because none of that pop up like actually came forward
it just went to the side and the end result is perfect
so what would you do if I 128 when you view cavity a flash in its still a
little bit too bright
well as a couple things you can take first one's really obvious
have to get your flash and move it okay so he may be it the other way
like Apple's feather and less light hits your object
they could also do that by did balancing the flash of the ceiling of a wall that
would
with a work I'm things you can do well you can modify the flash
so you could for example put a umbrella softbox
here just to to soften the light down you could even get
jail that will neutralize this by putting and that in neutral density
general on the flash
now if you wanna get more tips on how to balance flash in ambient
they don't forget to check out the Adorama Learning Center but there's lots
a great hips
helps and tricks to get your flash work up to scratch
okay now I'm pretty happy with that the only thing I'm not too happy with it is
if the feel a bit I actually really liked the silhouette that we had
earlier without the flash but I still wanna be a flash in their guy wanted to
give it a bit of an age
so what I'm gonna do is gonna take the flash I'm gonna move it
a whole although that forty centimeters I reckon
just off to the side so now I'm rear illuminating
the the object the light is coming in from deep behind but that should still
give me lie
on the twig and on the edging on Christmas decoration
okay let's just take the shot
still a one second exposure still 128
power now that ever gonna change the end result is a very different looking shot
it's a silhouette with an age and that exactly
the picture that I want
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