The Flash Book

STEP THREE:

Now Make Everything Darker

Now that you’ve gone and found the correct exposure for the outdoor natural light, you are going to intentionally make the scene around two stops darker, which is the key to making this look the way you want it to. This is because you want the flash lighting your subject, not the ambient light, so we darken the ambient (natural or available) light, so your flash alone does the job of lighting your subject. So, let’s say when you adjusted your f-stop in the previous step, you wound up at f/4. You’d darken the scene by moving your f-stop to around f/8, and then take a test shot. Since your subject’s back is ...