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Thank you for your help. The confusion
comes when I try to tell the class that you set your lens for - say, f11 at 125
of a seconds, but you set your flash unit for f5.6 for instance. It
sounds easy enough to those familiar with cameras and flash units, but to
beginners, this seems like a hopeless puzzle. Is there any way I can
visually explain this to students? (I've shown them the settings,
adjustments on a flash unit, but confusion still reigns.)
For instance, when explaining aperture settings
different sized funnels with sand pouring through them can be used (the sand
being the light that passes through the lens).
I have suggested that for now, when shooting
outside cutting the light coming from the flash can be accomplished by
physically placing a white handkerchief over the flash unit, the
photojournalist's trick of rotating the flash head straight up then attaching a
white card behind the flash (not all flash units can be rotated up) or stepping
back from your subject, etc.
Maybe the concept of fill flash is just something
that takes time to comprehend.
Thank you, again.
Marilyn
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