How to get correct exposure with manual flash

 · Set your lens to f/ and count the clicks until you get to f/ Remember to set it back to f/ though! That’s your correct exposure. Yup, 6 clicks. In other words, six 1/3-stop clicks which is 2 stops of exposure. Now you go to your flash, and dial down the manual flash output by 2 stops.  · Your options for manual flash exposure are either trial and error chimping or a flash meter. Like you I was reasonably comfortable chimping with a single manual flash. When you move to multiple off-camera manual flash chimping becomes more complicated as you are now eyeballing both exposure and lighting ratios.  · Simple: we hide the flash with some shiny paper which reflects its light backwards and/or upwards, this light flash will then trigger a hand held speedlight set according to the reference table as described before. The YNII flash has got a slave mode which allows it to be triggered as soon as it detects a flash of light.

With the camera up to your eye, there should be a little wheel next to your right index finger. Turn this wheel to adjust your shutter speed. Oddly enough, turning the wheel left will make the ELI go right and turing the wheel right will make it go left (it might be the opposite on a Nikon). Another option is to switch to aperture priority and ISO and aperture, which will make the camera auto-adjust shutter to get proper ambient exposure, and flash power to get proper flash exposure. You can then fiddle with AE compensation to alter ambient and with FE compensation to alter flash. So the steps are straightforward: Find your composition Get your ambient exposure correct through your F stop and shutter speed settings. Set your flash to manual mode and set the power to 1/1 Use a colored gel to alter the color of the flash if desired If you have a flash meter you can use it to.

Flash photography doesn't have to be scary or complicated. Here are some beginner tips to help you get started using on-camera flash. Before we get to flash exposure compensation specifically, with most Nikon cameras, dialing exposure comp in manual exposure mode will bias the meter. Without understanding TTL flash properly, you can't use it correctly. Using the flash exposure function n on your camera in conjunction with TTL.