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How do I avoid the "people in a cavern" look? Anonymous
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How do I avoid the "people in a cavern" look when using a flash? I don't have an example but picture this: low light situation, you use a flash, bouncing or maybe diffused direct flash.

Your subjects are properly exposed, it's all fine and dandy but the background is pretty much black or there are no details at all.

I heard you needed to drag the shutter, from what I understand that's how you do it:

Low shutter speed like 1/10-1/50, open up your lens to widest and let the flash do its thing. The background will be picked up while the flash freezes your subjects.

Is that right?
>> Anonymous
OP here, also, where does second curtain sync fit into this? Do I enable it when dragging the shutter?
>> Anonymous
>>100243
if youre just doing portraits it shouldnt really matter since they shouldnt be moving much. if its something else that is moving at a decent speed, it depends. if you want to see the trails behind the subject like motion blur, then set it to rear sync. if you want to freeze them when you press the shutter, then have the trails move ahead of them, set it to front sync.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>100243
Doesn't really matter. Second-curtain sync just means that the flash will fire right before the shutter starts closing rather than right after the shutter fully opens.

But yeah, the idea is to have a long enough exposure that you properly expose everything that didn't get hit with the flash.
>> Anonymous
Okay, so I was assuming right.

Now, that was with M but I remember reading somewhere that P or Av does fill flash.

What is that?
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
I typically use .4" to .6" exposure at around f5-6 with a fairly low fill flash. Standard sync and it looks fine.
>> Anonymous
>>100260

If she's really a woman, that explains all the oddities with a single stroke!
>> Anonymous
>>100260
my canon ef-m writes it like that, whats the deal.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
>>100260
But thats how you are supposed to write those exposures, .4" = 0.4s so 2" = 2s exposure. My camera does it. Or am i spelling exposure wrong?

Anyway the A100+56AM does HSS wish I remembered that earlier -___-
>> Anonymous
>>100268
Oddities, as compared to what? How men type?
What makes a womans typing any different than a guys?
Why do you assume all women type odd?

P.S. Why did you just assume this is a chick typing this?
>> Anonymous
>>100272

Women are usually deranged by nature. It shows when they talk long enough and act like psycho bitches, like our dear Butterfly.
>> Anonymous
>>100271
well my camera has 1/2.5 instead of .4
>> Anonymous
>>100273
Some women are deranged psycho bitches.
Some men are deranged psycho bitches.

Gender has nothing to do with it, and the way Butterfly wrote those exposures- despite her being a psycho bitch- isn't odd. It's the way many cameras represent shutter speeds slower than half a second, and some slower than faster than that but still very slow.