Here are more daytime pictures. I was planning to showcase some studio work we did but at the time of writing this the weather says it supposed to rain the day I post this and I wanted to add a little daylight to a rainy day.
Anyway, these photos were supposed to be in the same vein as the other day’s post – complimenting daylight with artificial light. In this case, it would be with a strobe as opposed to the speedlight I used for the other photos. Except you are not going to see any of the artificial light I added for this set because in a big brain move I forgot about light sync.
You see, if you set your shutter speed lower than about 1/250th (depends on the camera and brand) and use a flash, it will be out of sync with your shutter speed. At around 1/250th of a shutter speed you start to get a black band across your screen in studio. Even lower shutter speeds will just give you a black screen. Now if you take this outside and do this then your artificial light might as well not be there at all. The sun will still do its job, but you are essentially wasting your time carrying around a strobe or speedlight on a tripod.
And yes, that means I was carrying around my strobe with a softbox on a heavy-duty tripod with a portable battery and a sandbag to balance it for no reason whatsoever all because I forgot about light sync and was shooting at around 1/400th for shutter speed.
Now there are two ways to solve this issue. The first is easy, simply shoot at a shutter speed higher than 1/250th. Normally when I use my strobe, I shoot at no higher than 1/200th for shutter speed. Alternatively, you can see if your light can do high-speed sync (Canon or FP for Nikon, every brand has its own name for this) which allows you to shoot at higher shutter speeds. Just keep in mind that not all lights can do this. For example, my strobes cannot but my speedlights can, which is where my confusion came from especially taking a strobe out where I do not normally take it.