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Re: Beach shots... SUnny day with flash
Old 09-26-2006, 11:18 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ChipBulgin
A flash meter can really help you here, as you can take both an incident reading to get the available light exposure down, and then take a flash reading to set your subject exposure. It's not trial and error, but rather a matter of physics.
Hey Chip... Thanks for the response. I think I will break out the flash meter tomorrow or brush up on the GN calcs for my SB-800 (needed when using as a remote. On the camera I guess it has all that I need on the display). We will see.
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