High Speed Sync, get it!?!?

This is a followup on the “flash demystified” article I published a while back about the features on a Speedlite flash…

In the original post I purposely didn’t go into much detail on how to use these features but always meant to return to the subject..


In order to do that I went outside the other day and took several shoots of my son in the snow. When I started out I normally wouldn’t have used a flash outside under the assumption that there would be plenty of light, but after working with my Canon 430EX II flash and High Speed Sync I found that taking pictures with the flash on just gives your subject that much more “pop”.

I shot these in manual, both pictures of him where shoot at ISO 200, an aperture of f:2.8 and 1/400 of a second shutterspeed, with the Canon 1000D DSLR and the Canon 70-200 f:2.8 L USM lens, but the one on the right has the flash turned on.

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No High Speed Sync flash High Speed Sync flash on

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I made this little video using the Free Screen Recorder, and Lightroom 3 Beta showing the results of High Speed Sync.

I’ll be the first one to tell you that I’m not that good at making videos and this next one totally outshines me, but hey your’e here, right?

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Okay, so this one is made by Pocket Wizard, but even though the flash isn’t on camera the same rules apply. This video is really a commercial for the new Pocket Wizard unit being able to transmit E-TTL over the air.

So there you have it, High Speed Sync works, you dont get the same range, but you get the ability to use your flash.

Please comment down below.

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