Lighting Lesson
Today, our instructor taught us a lesson about flash photography. We learned a lot about ambient lighting and how to expose the foreground and background using flash.
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As you can see, all the settings are the same from these three photos, yet, each of them give off a different exposure. First, I exposed my camera to the background aka the very bright sky. (It was super sunny). After doing that, my subject was underexposed, but that's what I wanted so that I could use the flash to expose my subject. I had to move the aperture a little bit so that the picture was exactly one stop under-exposured for my flash. Instead of moving my camera settings after I took the photo, I adjusted the power of the flash. I started out with 1/8 and then moved the power up from there until my histogram showed that the exposure was okay. I eventually had to make the flash go to 1/2 so that she was exposed right.
I think next time we will continue to work with flashes and such. I hope my understanding of them gets better because I am not very good with flashes. This time, Smith kind of hinted at what I was supposed to do but next time I hope that I will be able to do it all my myself so that I can prove my understanding.