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Sunny 16/ND Filters/Fstop/Strobe settings

 
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Mar 25, 2013 21:26 |  #1

I have been reading about this technique and looking at pictures, the math is killing me and I need some people to proof my understanding of this.

So outdoors, bright sun, your camera meters the scene at f/16 SS 100 ISO 100. My max flash sync speed on my camera 200, so f/11 SS 200 ISO 100 is the same metering.

I decide I want to take a portrait at f/2.8 with the background 2 stops lower than the subject.

So f/22 is 2 stops above what the meter reads f/11.

1 ND gets me to f/16.
2 ND gets me to f/11.
3 ND gets me to f/8.
4 ND gets me to f/5.6.
5 ND gets me to f/4.
6 ND gets me to f/2.8.

So to shoot this portrait at f/2.8 I will need a 6 ND filter.

I will have to set my strobe to meter at f/22 on the subject?

Is this correct or have I made some fundamental misunderstanding?


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Mar 25, 2013 21:36 |  #2

That's about it.


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Mar 25, 2013 22:17 |  #3

If you position your model just right in the scene, you can get a 1/400 shutter speed thus gaining you another f-stop. If your camera has ISO 50, there's another f-stop.

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1/400 f/2.5 ISO 50 taken on May 7th at 12:21 in the afternoon using a 3-stop ND filter.

The reason I bring this up, it's AWFUL hard for a lens that wide open to grab good autofocus with a 6 stop filter on. I was struggling with my 85 1.2 L at 2.5. Most of the time I was having to use live view, which gets kind of grainy under those conditions.

Her feet are dark because I was using a beauty dish......I just did a full crop just so I could show there's no banding due to exceeding sync speed.



  
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