Last weekend, one of our friends celebrated their daughter's birthday party. On this kind of occasion, I don't usually bring a DSLR anymore - I feel it is a little too much when we're not the celebrants. Instead, I brought our trusty Lumix LX5 (reviewed here). However, to get the best image quality out of the LX5, I paired it with an external flash, the Yongnuo YN-560EX (reviewed here).
Yes, the 560EX is a manual not TTL flash. (I don't have a dedicated TTL flash for the Lumix LX5.) However, using a manual flash while shooting run-and-gun is actually easier than it sounds. (See: Therapy for TTL Addiction: How to Use Manual Flash).
In this post, I'll discuss my thought process in setting the flash and ambient exposures.
