Flash Photography

Flash Photography

Flash photography explores and allows you to freeze action, mimic studio lighting, tame harsh midday sunlight and balance a colour in a scene. These photographs have been captured with a DSLR camera attached to a TTL flash unit. The objective for this task was to capture two exposures, one by the ambient light and the other by the flash illumination. 
These exposures can equal the brightness or make the brightness inferior, as well as developing the colour balance. By adjusting the shutter speed it effects the ambient but not flash exposure. The flash is a very brief burst occurring during the relatively longer duration of the shutter opening—a flash burst of 1/2000 sec will provide the same illumination with a shutter speed of 1/30 sec as it will with a 1/250 sec shutter. As the aperture is the lens’s light valve, opening it up or stopping it down will lighten or darken both exposures such as the photographs below. The photographs below consists of experiments with the flashgun attached to the DSLR whilst changing the white balance and exposure. Some of the photographs reveal where the lighting is coming from, this is because I turned the flash unit to the side or diagonal in order for me to capture the correct lighting on the object, whether its catching the shadows or detail of the object. The photographs below also depict what flash photography looks like in natural daylight, as well as the difference between what is looks like in the inside of a building due to the exposure being adjusted.