Number three, modifiers and unique compositions. It’s a little bit difficult in that sense, where you don’t have that kind of predictability there. If I were to move my light setups and get a result that’s not as good, I don’t know where to go with my power, other than just to dial up and down the EV. I don’t know how much power is coming out of the unit. I can tell my camera, I can expose and say, give it a plus one or a minus one to the exposure value, but I don’t know what that value is. What else? You get the lack of consistency there, and the other lack of consistency is that if I get a correct exposure reading with TTL, I don’t really know what power setting was actually used for that. You get automated simplicity and that’s it. We want that kind of control and that kind of precision. We don’t have varying exposures, and varying different looks and so forth that we have to manually correct in post. We want every one of our shots to be equal in exposure so that way when we get into post-production, we can apply one set of development settings to it and be done.
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In Photography 101 we talk about getting you into manual mode because we want control. Number one, you have less control, less precision. That’s the only pro that comes with this, because there’s a whole list of cons. But like I said, it gets it hopefully right. It will take your reading and then fire, and get it hopefully right. It really doesn’t matter what direction it’s pointing. It’s basically gonna get a reading that way. That means it will actually fire a pre-flash against the wall, measure the light reading coming back from the wall, and then it would expose for that subject. They would say, “How does TTL take that measurement?” Like I said, it’s firing a pre-flash. Let’s say that my subject is right here, but the flash is actually pointing to the side and is bouncing off the wall.
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Some people, by the way, would ask, “What if my flash head is pointed off to the side?” I’m gonna grab an actual full feature flash that has TTL. It’s great when you’re getting started.īut, here’s the thing. Similarly, I could say the same thing about TTL. The automated modes are fantastic for getting exposure that’s usable. In Photography 101, we talked about using the automated modes when you’re getting started, and that’s great. TTL basically means your flash is gonna fire that pre-flash which is gonna take a measurement of the light reading, and then it’s gonna expose for you.