I also just recently learned about gels on flash. For certain films being tungsten balanced I need an orange gel or else my subject will look too blue! I just experimented with this on my digital and setting the white balance to tungsten and using the orange gel. It came out white! I'll be using this trick this halloween as I'll be taking pictures with Cinestill 800t. It's a nice trick to know and I'll be using more often to help balance out background light vs my flash.

Have you found your digital to be more flash sensitive then the meter reads or the film version? Experimenting on Nikon F2AS in each A (Auto thyristor) then measure scale using Nikon SB-800. Using the Nikon D300s & D700 as my digital comparison. It’s needing at least 1 whole to 1-2/3 difference . I’m metering flash meters & camera for ASA 400 & using 2nd ASA of 800 to apply to camera then sometimes 1/3 stop. “A” auto was ok but a tad on highlight in colour. Gossen PrfiSix & Profi Flash & Minolta Flash Meter V, spot metering for fill. Gossen 1° Spot & Nikon internal 1.5%

I am confused about the metering part. Do we just sit there and time the moment flashes will pop and hit the meter at the same time? And do we preset the shutter speed or aperture and only to meter the other? I am really confused and all the KZread skip that part and I found it will be the most important section. Please advice 🙏

@patcormick

Жыл бұрын

So first part of the question: are you trying to time the flash.. no.. certain meters (probably a lot of models really) have a flash mode where you would hit the flash and bc of the extreme pop of light the meter can register the flash going off and will show you what you should meter for. From there you’ll have the baseline and you can adjust creatively if you want a slightly darker/brighter image.. 2nd part: are you setting ap/shutter.. so what I do is pick the aperture I want. We’ll say like 2.8 or something, then you’ll have the iso/asa of the film.. that’ll give you 2 point of the ap/shutter/ iso triangle.. then you’re just adjusting shutter speed as necessary to get the app.. now some cameras will have more leeway with shutter speeds so you may have to shoot slower speeds in low light or use higher speed films if you’re wanting a specific aperture for depth of field Let me know what other questions you have!

What Box speed film did you use?

@patcormick

11 ай бұрын

Oh buddy, you’d have to remind me what film I shot in the video.. I’m sure I ran box speed