some wedding questions? got one this weekend

Cindy, think about what happens to the light when you use any diffuser. With any Fongdong it's throwing the light in a 360 degree pattern, which means you're throwing light where it doesn't need to go. Indoors some say this light bounces off surfaces and a portion comes back to the couple, but this would only happen in a tiny room. Really the only thing going for the Fongdong is marketing.

A good diffuser increases the size of the light source. The Fongdong does that, slightly. Outside though just use direct flash as fill, or no flash at all.

soo... whats dragging shutter ?
lol

nickbunyun wrote in post #7940948
soo... whats dragging shutter ?
lol

Dragging the shutter is using a slower shutter speed aling with a flash to expose both the subject and the background.

Simple example: You are in a hallway at a wedding/church/recepti​on you are taking a picture of someone and framing it so that both the subject and the hallway background are in the frame.

Say you switch to P mode and it tells you to use 1/60 and f4 to expose properly with the flash. You use this and see that the hallway is dark while the subject is lit well.

To expose the hallway, you drag the shutter. Slow the shutter to 1/30 or slower (depending on the amount of light you want in the hallway) and both the subject and the hallway will be lit.

Of course you can drag the shutter in other situations

That explanation of dragging the shutter is either confusing or incorrect. To put it succinctly, it's using flash to light the main subject and using the ambient exposure to light the background. If you have the same amount of light on the subject as the background this doesn't work so well.

tim wrote in post #7941577
That explanation of dragging the shutter is either confusing or incorrect. To put it succinctly, it's using flash to light the main subject and using the ambient exposure to light the background. If you have the same amount of light on the subject as the background this doesn't work so well.

Sorry Tim, I understand what you mean about dragging in order to use ambient light and flash for a main subject.

My explanation was intended for when there is too little or no ambient light and I guess not a very common situation.

http://www.planetneil.​com …s/3-dragging-the-shutter/

theres comparison shots and the explanation and how to's...