First off, when choosing where you would like to shoot your image at you MUST find some shade when outside. If you take a photo in the sunlight the flash will NOT expose correctly. Shoot preferably in somewhere where there is a lot of shade so the shade will not only cover your entire subject, but also the flash. To set up the light put all the batteries in the flash, transmitter, and receiver, make sure they work. If the batteries are dead, get some new ones. You connect the receiver to the bottom of the flash, make sure it is pushed all the way in the metal plating, tighten the wheel and lock the flash. Make sure the legs of the stand is pulled down to something stable. Connect the flash to the top of the pole and tighten. If the umbrella is being used untighten the knob for the umbrella slot, pull out the entire pole of the umbrella and put it in there. Make sure it fits correctly, and tighten. Make sure the flash is pointing the correct way, at your subject, or at the umbrella, but the umbrella must face your subject. Make sure the stand is pulled up so it is higher than your subject and sort of to the side of them. You want to make sure that the light is casted on the upper side of their face. You tighten the transmitter into the metal plate on your camera. Turn everything on. Make sure the transmitter and receiver are on the same channels, or the flash will not fire correctly. To test this out just press the test button. Format and decide your white balance on your camera. Depending on whether or not the sun is behind a cloud will determine what white balance to use. Auto white balance might mess up the colors on your image. Be careful. Make sure you are in manual mode, to expose correctly it will need to be on this mode. Set your shutter speed to 1/60 or higher than that that. Make sure the ISO is set to 100 or to 200 depending on the lighting. The f stop will go accordingly. The pointer on the exposure bar should be located in the middle. Then have your subject stand accordingly to the place you need. Don't forget that the zoom on the flash should be the same on the camera. Take a picture and look at it carefully, if the exposure is to bright you can adjust the aperture, power of the flash, or the ISO to fix the lighting. If it's too dark, do the same thing. Make sure it is focused correctly and be sure the framing is good too. Take many pictures to get a good one.
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