Hello Tanya, You may have missed the big IF (If you are relying on the flashes for all of the lighting effect...). That doesn't mean that I always want the ambient light minimized - but Shel was wondering how the shutter speed would "kill" the ambient light. I was just going a bit further explaining why.
There are situations where I want the flash lighting only and there are situations where the flash lighting is just supplemental. Being able to do both is rather nice. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, March 8, 2004, 3:31:06 PM, you wrote: TMP> How funny! I'm the total opposite, I prefer to slow it right down to TMP> CAPTURE ambient light and if I don't want it around, I usually shoot at TMP> night time. TMP> tan. TMP> -----Original Message----- TMP> From: Bruce Dayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TMP> Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2004 4:36 AM TMP> To: Shel Belinkoff TMP> Subject: Re: Frightening *istD experience TMP> Hello Shel, TMP> When using studio lights, it is common to be shooting around F8-16 TMP> because of the power of the flash heads. The faster the shutter TMP> synch, at those small f stops, the less ambient light becomes part of TMP> the equation. If you are relying on the flashes for all of the TMP> lighting effect, it is nice to shoot as Paul describes. TMP> When I was shooting the Pentax 67 with it's 1/30 flash synch, I needed TMP> to try to keep the room dark and only use the modeling lights in the TMP> flash heads. TMP> HTH, TMP> Bruce TMP> Monday, March 8, 2004, 10:19:21 AM, you wrote: SB>> OK, I suppose this is some "flash fact," so forgive my SB>> ignorance. How does the shutter speed "kill" ambient SB>> light? What do you mean by kill? SB>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> >>> Good idea for the studio shoots. I always shoot at 1/125th, because I >>> like as much shutter speed as possible to kill the ambient light.
