Originally posted by sterretje I was more a question of interest from my side. I sometimes use a flash in daylight to lighten up shadows, but results often are not better than without
It needs understanding and practice, I guess
This is what I did with flash-by-daylight:
PHOTOEIL
The trick is, in the beginning; trial and error, lots of polaroids and a good flash meter. Then slowly one gets to know how to and develop some 'fingerspitzengefühl' and can save on polaroids...
I have to admit, this is old school, shot on colour slide film with Hasselblad, Multiblitz (3 generators and 5 mono blocks), lots of cables to sync and about 400 m of power cables. I had no LCD panel nor a tethered computer to check, all I had where some 6x6 cm B&W polaroid prints (it was rather cold so colour polaroid would not develop well).
BTW, Hasselblad is very popular among strobists, due to its leafshutter system, but with a sync speed of 1/180" and 80 ISO (K5), it is certainly feasible...
I recall that on certain occasions the sync speed was around 1/2 sec at F 1:11 to F 1:16. Flash speed is that high so movements could be stopped, but not all situations are the same, so again, trial and error....