{"id":404,"date":"2010-10-17T13:21:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T18:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2010-10-17T13:21:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T18:21:38","slug":"using-fill-flash-and-lightroom-presets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/using-fill-flash-and-lightroom-presets\/","title":{"rendered":"Using fill flash and Lightroom presets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julia and I walked along the Root River Trail in Lanesboro on Friday, and I of course brought my camera. I took the opportunity to experiment with fill flash for lightening the subject (in this case, Julia) in front of a brightly-lit background. I also had some fun with some effects presets in Lightroom when I was doing the post-processing. Examples under the jump…<\/p>\n

I found that the best way to use the fill flash was to put my 430EX II flash into manual mode and set it to 1\/4 to 1\/8 full power. I tried using Aperture-Priority mode, which is supposed to automatically use fill flash with E-TTL, but I just didn’t like it as much. Here’s an example of a picture of Julia that used some fill flash:<\/p>\n

\"Pretty<\/a><\/p>\n

The flash helped lighten the shadows on her face, without becoming too overpowering. Here’s another example:<\/p>\n

\"More<\/a><\/p>\n

Contrast that with a picture of her that doesn’t have any fill flash, just natural light:<\/p>\n

\"Julia<\/a><\/p>\n

I also had fun with some Lightroom presets for special effects. This photo of a sign and bridge has an old-fashioned, grainy look:<\/p>\n

\"Old-Time<\/a><\/p>\n

This one is almost, but not quite, like a toned black-and-white print:<\/p>\n

\"Postprocessing<\/a><\/p>\n

Both fill flash and presets can come in very handy. I’ll definitely play with them some more in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julia and I walked along the Root River Trail in Lanesboro on Friday, and I of course brought my camera. I took the opportunity to experiment with fill flash for lightening the subject (in this case, Julia) in front of a brightly-lit background. I also had some fun with some effects presets in Lightroom when… Continue reading Using fill flash and Lightroom presets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[148,23],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-fill-flash","tag-lightroom","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}