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Exposure bracketing with flash on Canon R5

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Dan W Senior Member • Posts: 1,154
Re: Exposure bracketing with flash on Canon R5
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DanH82 wrote:

Hi,

I am a real estate photographer using a Canon R5 with 15-35mm lens setup.

Currently using a tripod I shoot 3 exposure brackets (-1, 0, +1) for internal room shots and then merge these in Lightroom to try and get both the view out of the window and all areas of the room looking good with a few tweaks.

However, I often find walls that should look crisp and white appear dull with maybe a yellow tinge to them. I think that using a diffused flash bounced off the ceiling would help to crisp up the whites, however I can't get this to fire automatically off the hotshoe when in exposure bracketing mode.

Does anyone know if this can be done? Currently I fire a handheld flash manually which helps with the walls but relies on me timing it right!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I guess I'm confused. Expose for ambient outside of windows then set your flash to "FEB"  or Flash Exposure Bracketing + 1 stop, 0Stop, - 1 stop. As far as what walls looking yellow or dark it's always a good idea when color is critical is to shoot a white card or even a grey card. Canon usually likes white card for white balance whereas Nikon likes grey cards for white balance. This will mean if you shoot the image with a white balance using your lighting setup, white walls will look white and blue walls will look blue etc..

By doing this you should get a proper exposure for the outside and you will have bracketed flash exposures for the inside that is color balanced. It only takes a minute or two to do this. Before retirement, I was a portrait shooter for paid work. My first shot was for white balance. I never had to mess with color treatments during post.  Mixed lighting like really bad ambient light color can get tricky but thats when you try to match the flash color to the ambient colors using gels on the flash(es) used and setting camera color temp to the colored lights, again a simple shot with the light/s being used will correct any color shifts you make. I hope this makes sense.

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