Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

1/200 sec @ f/4.5, ISO 100, 50 mm (EF50mm f/1.8 II)  I got my inspiration for today’s photograph after looking at some other peoples’ work on Flickr tonight.  I learned something tonight about when I shoot strictly with flash and no ambient light.  I tend to underexpose all my photographs.  I figured this out during the shoot tonight by taking several frames using the exposure and flash settings that I normally would for this type of shot.  Then, I slowly walked the aperture down, letting more and more light from the flash hit the sensor.  As I did this, I realized that I was getting a much more vivid color pallet in the camera.  In the past, I would usually have to do some post processing to get the bright colors out of my Strobist-style shots.  However, this time, the vividness was captured right in camera, simply by letting more of the light from the flash expose the scene.  It is a delicate balance though.  One stop more light in this photograph resulted in the background showing up instead of the smooth black background.