Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 8

In this episode Mark shows you how to use your Sekonic light meter to balance flash and ambient light.

16 Comments

  1. dmireles2
    Posted July 25, 2008 at 9:20 pm | Permalink

    great video. thanks for putting it together.

  2. n1ckotene
    Posted July 26, 2008 at 4:00 am | Permalink

    Very well explained – thank you.

  3. kaisergrendel
    Posted July 26, 2008 at 9:29 am | Permalink

    I actually prefer the 20% balance – any higher and the ambient light (which is beautiful) takes the backseat too much.

  4. shutterbug2dogs
    Posted July 26, 2008 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

    This helps tremendously! Thank you for your tutorials – they are the best!

  5. mozdave
    Posted July 29, 2008 at 12:52 am | Permalink

    Good to see you’re posting videos again!

  6. ProPhotoHouston02
    Posted July 29, 2008 at 1:06 am | Permalink

    Always great videos…

    -Rome

  7. shmeldrick
    Posted July 30, 2008 at 6:54 am | Permalink

    great videos, but why is it that in most of your videos when you fire a flash, you don’t usually see it on the video?

  8. snapfactory
    Posted July 30, 2008 at 11:17 am | Permalink

    This is a problem with the shutter speed of the video camera. Usually the flash fires between frames so it doesn’t show up in the video. But the flash is actually firing. :)

  9. shmeldrick
    Posted July 30, 2008 at 2:02 pm | Permalink

    ok I thought it might be something like that.

  10. alexdg
    Posted August 4, 2008 at 2:19 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for a great video! However…

    Shutter speed doesn’t affect amount of light from the flash because flash happens very rapidly. The only way to affect flash exposure is by changing the aperture. When you were slowing down the shutter, the light meter was reducing your aperture, which resulted in more ambient and less flash.

    So the end result is exactly as described, only difference is that technically flash exposure was affected by smaller aperture :)

    Please correct me if i’m wrong.

  11. desmondlaugh
    Posted August 7, 2008 at 11:18 pm | Permalink

    great you guys are posting vids again. You guys give such useful information. Can’t wait for the next set please if possible try to post some new stuff soon. Your vids are excellent training tools

    Thanks

    Desmond

  12. juldog28
    Posted September 6, 2008 at 4:03 am | Permalink

    love your videos. it’s hard to find lessons in english out here in japan. you’re a lifesaver!

  13. l33thustla
    Posted November 21, 2008 at 12:24 pm | Permalink

    great tips… :) now I have to spend more money haha thanks.

  14. BassEden
    Posted January 17, 2009 at 2:02 am | Permalink

    …I absolutely love your video lessons, but what’s happen with “I like f/6.3″ original statement? Where did it go and why??

  15. 1Shiznit
    Posted January 26, 2009 at 11:54 pm | Permalink

    Haha.. whoa… Caroline! I’ve shot Caroline before. She is very nice. She lives in Arizona but makes the occassional trip to L.A. which is where I shot with her.

  16. JohanLinden1989
    Posted April 24, 2009 at 5:38 am | Permalink

    great set of videos. Much obliged

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