Blue Crane Digital Understanding the Nikon Speedlight SB-700 (zBC206)

when you start working with speedlights it's great working in TTL mode because you remove having to worry about what that exposure is doing however I shoot with the camera in manual mode so I can make the creative decision of what I want the ambient exposure to be you can shoot an aperture priority or shutter priority but keep in mind the camera is going to make a lot of adjustments for you and you may not get the results you want for this setup I'm going to bring in my speed light but I'm going to pop that speed light through a large softbox this is basically a portable window bring it in close you can make just about anybody look great with this kind of light source I'm going to do a quick ambient exposure here just see what's happening kind of the graphics of our shot you'll be able to see that if we properly expose four key from the foreground we're actually over exposing quite a bi