i want to buy one of those flashes that hook to the top of a DSLR. (i have a nikon d3200)
I'm saving money and buying a cheap one that is manual only, no TTL. I've never used a flash before, not even the one built in the camera.
i want to know how you know what brightness to use on the flash, and what aperture, iso, and shutter speed to use to correctly expose a picture.
and I'm not doing studio portraits. I need more light for things like taking a picture at a birthday party or something. I'm going to be in situations where i can't take 5 photos and mess with the flash in-between and change settings with each shot. One, two photos, with hardly any time wasted is what i need, but i also need to expose correctly with a manual flash and i don't know how to do it.
the flash i want to buy is called "DBK DF-400 Flash Speed light". Its on Amazon.
so how do you know how to get correct exposure with this flash?
i tried googling it but all the tutorials on google and youtube are pretty bad. And i need things explained very simple.
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