Although I mention High Speed Sync below, it is NOT always necessary. I shot this with a studio strobe that does not have a High Speed Sync option. High speed sync is nice when you don’t want to worry about sync speeds conflicting with your shot.

This is how you do it and it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3…………….

1…Expose for the OUTSIDE not the inside…
The problem with exposing for the outside is that you may need High Speed Sync to pull the shot off if the outside exposure based on your ISO and F/stop settings exceeds your camera sync speed. Hint: Start with the ISO at 100 then change as needed.

2…Set the Camera on AV mode…
When the camera is on AV mode, you can choose your F/stop and the camera sets the shutter speed. That’s why High Speed Sync as previously mentioned may be important. You don’t want to have to worry about sync.

3…The inside light balances with the outside light…
The trick is to get 1 and 2 above all set then make sure the inside light you are using whether speedlite or strobe then balances out the subject with the setting you have in place for the outside. For example, if your settings are 100ISO @F/5.6 @1/125th, you simply have to make sure the inside light fills in the subject. TTL and High Speed Sync (if needed) makes it a little faster, but if a studio strobe will work, it’s just a matter of adjusting the power until the subject looks exposed properly.

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Canon 600 Speedlite With Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 Set At f/3.2 And 200mm

The image above was shot outside at 100ISO with the lens nearly wide open at f/3.2 to create the really blurred background. I used a 24 x 24 softbox on a light stand with a Canon 600 Flash set on TTL and High Speed Sync. I had the speedlite (aka: flash) output set a little over exposed in camera because that’s a personal preference of mine. I used the Canon ST-E3-RT on the camera’s hotshoe to trigger the speedlite off camera.

Using a speedlite (aka: flash) outside can make a difference in the results of your outdoor images and I’m not referring to the little popup flash on the camera if you have one. To get the best results with outdoor flash photography, you should consider a TTL hotshoe mountable speedlite that will allow high speed sync. This type of speedlite will make it easy to balance the daylight and the flash outside so the lighting doesn’t look odd. A TTL speedlite communicates with the camera in a way that makes it all work together well.

The high speed sync mode allows you to shoot at faster shutter speeds than normal sync mode will allow. This is important because even outside at 100ISO it’s easy for the shutter speed to far exceed the sync mode of the camera especially when shooting at an f/stop of 3.2 like the image at the top of this post.

By no means is this post meant to be a complete understanding of TTL and High Speed Sync. If it were that type of post, it would be far longer. However, I do recommend that you use YOUTUBE to look up TTL Speedlite, Flash Outdoors, High Speed Sync and other relevant terms from this post to help you better understand what has been mentioned above. Watching videos on this subject can help you have a deeper understanding than reading a short blog post.

Don’t be afraid to use a speedlite (aka: flash) outside. If you learn how to do it right, you will likely enjoy many of your portrait related images even more.

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