{"id":5018,"date":"2016-01-26T20:03:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T20:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2016-01-26T20:05:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T20:05:04","slug":"5-faqs-and-answers-about-flash-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=5018","title":{"rendered":"5 FAQ&#8217;s (and answers) about flash meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you shoot with flash you may well be aware that speedlights and (increasingly) studio strobes come in either manual or TTL versions. If you&#8217;re shooting weddings, events or any sort of running and gunning photography, TTL is brilliant but for me manual flash teamed with a flash meter is how I like to work in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re thinking a flash meter might be what you need to improve the consistency of you shots or you already have a flash meter but aren&#8217;t sure on how to get started with it, then I&#8217;ve got you covered.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UG4P-Odutr8[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>In the video above I cover the top 5 questions I hear from photographers and flash meters.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can&#8217;t I just use my camera&#8217;s meter?<\/li>\n<li>Do all flash meters work the same?<\/li>\n<li>How do I trigger the flash and the meter?<\/li>\n<li>Where do I point the meter?<\/li>\n<li>Do I <em>really <\/em>need one?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My flash meter of choice is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/SKL308SN.html?KBID=67338\">Sekonic L-308S Flashmate<\/a>. It&#8217;s about as basic as a handheld meter can be but it&#8217;s super reliable and excellent value for money. More information can be found over at Adorama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/SKL308SN.html?KBID=67338\">http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/SKL308SN.html?KBID=67338<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Flash-Meter-Cover.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Flash-Meter-Cover-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Flash-Meter-Cover\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Flash-Meter-Cover-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Flash-Meter-Cover-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Flash-Meter-Cover-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Flash-Meter-Cover-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Flash-Meter-Cover-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Flash-Meter-Cover-180x101.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Flash-Meter-Cover-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Flash-Meter-Cover-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Flash-Meter-Cover.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you shoot with flash you may well be aware that speedlights and (increasingly) studio strobes come in either manual or TTL versions. If you&#8217;re shooting weddings, events or any sort of running and gunning photography, TTL is brilliant but for me manual flash teamed with a flash meter is how I like to work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=5018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 FAQ&#8217;s (and answers) about flash meters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[76,23,79,36,37,78,24,144,3],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-adorama","tag-featured","tag-flash","tag-photography","tag-portrait","tag-speedlight","tag-spotlight","tag-studio","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5023,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions\/5023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}