Fill Flash

[DealsGapCobra]

I just thought I would share two photos that I took the other day. Unfortunately, to get the background that I wanted, the side of the car was in the shade. On the second shot I used the flash to help brighten the dark side of the car. While it is still dark it did bring our much more detail and saved the photo.

You can do this on many cameras by setting it to flash even in bright sunlight.

Original Shot


With the flash

[2FAST4U]

Another method routinely used is to use white cards (4' x 4') to remove the shadows.

BTW - I love your 289FIA car.

[Carography]

One thing that most people dont understand is that the more sun light, the MORE flash you need.
With bright direct sun light, you get deep dark shadows. SO, you need a bright flash to come in and "fill" in the shadow.
When the sun is out you have to stop down to get the proper exposure. Which requires more flash.


The sun is behind this car. (see shadow in front) camera settings we probably 1/180th @ f/9.5 or 11
It takes a lot of flash to equal f/9.5 or 11.
If it were an overcast day, the shadows would be softer and the differance between highlight and showdows not be as extream as it would be on a sunny day. On an Overcast day you may not need flash at all. But if you were to use flash, you would not need as much, because your camrea setting on an overcast day might be more like 1/60th @ f/4.0. Alot less flash required for an f/4.0 exposure than an f/11 exposure.