Curtis N wrote in post #3251179
Don't call yourself dumb. This stuff confuses a lot of people.
Think of it this way: Outdoors you have two options to properly expose for bright sunlight. You can use a moderate shutter speed (1/250 or slower) along with a relatively small aperture.
Or you can use a fast shutter and a wider aperture. Whether you're using Av, Tv or M, you still need a relatively fast shutter, or a relatively small aperture, or some combination thereof.
So you need to make a choice. You can set the shutter at 1/250 and then stop down the aperture for proper exposure. In bright sun this will require a relatively small aperture that will give you a lot of DOF and keep the background relatively sharp.
But maybe you want a wide aperture to blur the background. In this case you will need a fast shutter speed which requires HSS. But HSS uses the flash less efficiently, reduces the range and generates longer recycle times and less battery life.
Those are your choices. Now you need to decide what's important to you and use the appropriate strategy.
Don't call yourself dumb. This stuff confuses a lot of people.
Think of it this way: Outdoors you have two options to properly expose for bright sunlight. You can use a moderate shutter speed (1/250 or slower) along with a relatively small aperture.
Or you can use a fast shutter and a wider aperture. Whether you're using Av, Tv or M, you still need a relatively fast shutter, or a relatively small aperture, or some combination thereof.
So you need to make a choice. You can set the shutter at 1/250 and then stop down the aperture for proper exposure. In bright sun this will require a relatively small aperture that will give you a lot of DOF and keep the background relatively sharp.
But maybe you want a wide aperture to blur the background. In this case you will need a fast shutter speed which requires HSS. But HSS uses the flash less efficiently, reduces the range and generates longer recycle times and less battery life.
Those are your choices. Now you need to decide what's important to you and use the appropriate strategy.
Nice and layed out.
