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Digital Photography 1 on 1

By Mark Wallace

December 13, 2010

This week Mark Wallace talks about on-camera flash. There are ways that we can modify the on-camera flash to control our lighting. We can bounce our flash from ceilings, walls, or off of reflectors and Mark will show us how.


Mark demonstrates the differences between the on-camera flash operation for Nikon and Canon systems and shows how to achieve things like high-speed flash synchronization and how to balance ambient light with the light coming from a flash.



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Great tricks with the reflector!!

Thank you so much for ALL these tips!

by Jessica in Louisiana on July 10, 2011

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Helpful

This is definitely helpful, will be looking at the next lessons.

by VL in NY on July 5, 2011

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Nikon D300 Auto FP

Hi mark, I'm using a Nikon D300 in Manual mode with an SB-600 and am having trouble getting the same results as you demonstrated with a D90. I selected 1/250s (auto FP). and set my camera flash controller to i-TTL and center weighted metering, and chose i-TTL Balance Fill on the sB-600. Both the ambient light and subject light both appear to get darker with each speed increase. Am I set properly

by jdf in Penryn, CA on May 1, 2011

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Terrific Lesson

I nearly passed this up because the title talked about basics. I'm glad I didn't because this episode had lots of useful tips. It was a great lesson. Thanks Mark.

by Chris in Fort Worth on March 12, 2011

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Exposure compensation

I am using a Canon 7D 24-105 f4 and a 580EXII flash. I tried using -3 stops on the EC and I couldnt tell a difference in the bg's brightness. Not sure why, but I went out and took 4 shots of a tree in shadow with a somewhat bright back ground. Camera in Av Iso 200 first ex was metered off of tree. 1/60 8 the back ground was very bright. So I decided to meter for the background on the next shots and fill in with the flash. When I did that the exposure changed from 1/60 8 to 1/250 8. The next 3 exposures were all at 1/250 8 I increased the flash exposure by 1, 2 and even 3 stops and in each shot the tree got darker but only by a little. Back ground stayed the same. I would have thought it would have gotten brighter as I increased the flash output being that the exposure stayed the same. Any ideas on why this would happen.

by DBman in South Carolina on February 6, 2011

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Excellent tutorial

Anyone Can learn a few tricks

by Manny in Hialeah on December 19, 2010

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Exposure vs. Flash compensation

Great video! Just curious if there is any difference in stopping down the exposure compensation and using the flash at full power, or stopping down the flash compensation and going with the ambient light? Are they different things for different situations or two completely different and unrelated animals? Thanks.

by Deerjohn13 in Georgia on December 15, 2010

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Super!

Mark, you answered all of my questions!

by PaulieDC in Phoenix on December 14, 2010

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on camera flash

Great lesson as allways, Thanks Mark, your the best on line photography teacher today. Dave

by Dave in Southern Calif. on December 14, 2010

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