Learning how to balance ambient light with flash allows you to separately control the exposure of the background and the exposure of the subject you are shooting.
The background is lit by ambient light, and your subject is lit mainly by the flash.
Watch this video to understand how to shoot portraits using off camera flash and control the look of the shot by adjusting the ambient and the flash exposure separately.
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