This thread is awesome!! I just went away for the weekend and had an opportunity to take a great picture IMO. My buddy Jonny is getting married and this was his send off weekend
He loves to fish and I wanted to get this shot as good as possible.
Here is what I did:
I metered for the sky in Av mode at f/11 to see what shutter speed I needed. Turns out, 1/200sec was what it told me aiming at the sky on partial metering mode. I was pretty surprised that it was only 1/200sec, but i was happy, because I knew the flash sync speed was 1/200sec on my camera. I figured I could always raise the f/stop though if necessary to slow down the shutter.
So then I switched to manual mode and set the shutter to 1/160 @f/11 so the sky wasn't to dark and set the flash exp/comp at +1 1/2 to try and fill in Jonny as his face was in the shade of the sun. I used this flash setting based on the info I have gotten reading this thread. I was also using the on camera flash so I figured it needed more power.
Here is the result right off the camera raw:
Here is the edited version:
Here is 1 more of Jonny's Dad enjoying a frosty beverage
This 1 came out a bit better just off the camera IMO.
Thanks again for all the great info
Best,
Jay