Flash & Lightbulb

Are flashes and light-bulb supposed to use together? What i realized is my flash is much stronger than my light-bulb, so I don't know how much can bulb add to the exposure of my image.

By lightbulb are you referring to ambient lighting, like a lamp? Or are you talking about modeling lights?

Flash and regular house lamps don't balance well together, from a color temp standpoint. Flashes have the wonderful ability to be gelled to match nearly any light source, so you could always color correct the flash head to match the ambient...

Alternatively, set your camera to shoot outside of the ambient exposure levels so that your flash has to push to shoot over it. That way, the ambient light won't play a large role in determining the coloration of the photo.

Hope that makes sense.

calvinjhfeng wrote in post #12430274
Are flashes and light-bulb supposed to use together? What i realized is my flash is much stronger than my light-bulb, so I don't know how much can bulb add to the exposure of my image.

Flash is controlled by your aperture, light bulb adds to your ambient light so it is controlled by your shutter speed. So to answer your question, the light bulb will not affect the subject that is lit by your flash but it will make your ambient brighter depending on how fast your shutter speed is.

CiM_Photography wrote in post #12430411
By lightbulb are you referring to ambient lighting, like a lamp? Or are you talking about modeling lights?

Flash and regular house lamps don't balance well together, from a color temp standpoint. Flashes have the wonderful ability to be gelled to match nearly any light source, so you could always color correct the flash head to match the ambient...

Alternatively, set your camera to shoot outside of the ambient exposure levels so that your flash has to push to shoot over it. That way, the ambient light won't play a large role in determining the coloration of the photo.

Hope that makes sense.

i use 5500K 45watt lightbulbs. So technically it isn't house lamps, it is daylight temperture.

airshaq20 wrote in post #12430496
Flash is controlled by your aperture, light bulb adds to your ambient light so it is controlled by your shutter speed. So to answer your question, the light bulb will not affect the subject that is lit by your flash but it will make your ambient brighter depending on how fast your shutter speed is.

I usually put my flash on manual, it isn't controlled by anything, so I am puzzled.

I think the best method is to read up on www.strobist.com - David Hobby does a wonderful job in explaining this very subject, and most everything that I could tell you would just further confuse the situation since I am not an expert nor a teacher.

'flashes and light bulbs' ...that describes a studio strobe! Flash is daylight balanced, modelling light is incandescent (about 3200K) and the two are very commonly used together. Of course, the intensity difference is typically more than 4EV difference...f/5.6 (modelling light) vs. f/22 (flash), and for all intents and purposes the incandescent source does not contribute much to the overall exposure -- about 0.2EV if only 3EV difference in intensity (and it is a stuggle to make the difference that little!).

Are you talking about strobes and constant lighting together?