Comments on: SB-800 Outdoor Lighting Tutorial

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:16:54 +0000

I am impressed by the photos and tutorial. Keep writing your GREAT tutorials. Very helpful.

By: andz

andz — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:29:41 +0000

and you really made all those shots at daylight?

By: desmond

desmond — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:26:21 +0000

thx I will try to give this a go at now thax alot

By: Yanik

Yanik — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:42:32 +0000

Desmond:

I checked the specs on the D80 and you have the option to put your sync speed to “Auto FP High-Speed Sync”. What this does is it will allow you to shoot with your SB-800 (not sure about the SB-600) up to 1/4000 sec. I always have my sync speed on this mode.

But you’re also correct in shooting your scene at -2 stops and using your flashes to light your main subject. You can try them in TTL mode first. If you’re not happy, put them in manual and adjust the power to your liking.

Hope this helps you.

By: Desmond

Desmond — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:15:46 +0000

Hi yanik, just want to tell you that I really like your work and thanks for the tutorial. But now I have a question for the teacher. I have a d80 and would like to create some of those shots/ mostly the ones at the beach where you have the beautiful model but better yet that lovely underexposed sky. So my questiion is I have a d80 which only has a sync speed of 1/200th sec. If that is not enough to knock down the sun can i ad in expouser compensation (say 2stops-) and then use the flash (I have a 600 and 800) to bring the model back up. and may be change the w.balance to make the blue sky more or less intense ie. coole. thanks again for any response and thanks for creating the tutorial

des