Excellent tutorial! I especially like that you are showing everyone that you don't need pro level camera body and lens to achieve excellent results (to some degree). I've been out of the game for a few years and your video is a great refresher.
I have rediscovered my interest in flash photography after some years concentrating on landscape work. I found your video very instructive and easy to follow. You are clearly an experienced professional but you didn't talk down to us, or assume a level of technology or jargon that would be intimidating. Well done!
that would be one of the best tutorials I've seen. very helpful and inspirational. I've been scared of using off-camera flash because it's completely new to me, but I will give it a go now! Thank you!
Thank you for your educational content. I'm digging through the back catalog going through all the speedlight and flash videos and I appreciate your teaching style. Much appreciated.
I really like taking picture with flash, especially for the fill flash (outdoor portrait). Thank you for your sharing how to use flash. Looking forward to watching your next RU-vid again! Taking picture with flash is fun!
Some very useful tips here.. Been scared of using a flash so been putting it of for a while.. Finally bought one... And will be trying all your tips.. Thanks 😊
There's good thing about this woman photographer is that in the first part she's only using budget set up to show how simple OCF can change the image of a picture. I like it because she's unpretentious tutor, but down to earth. By the way, model looks super, that's an ice on the cake for this educational video. Good.
I have just started a steep learning curve, having bought my first speedlight godox 685ii, and now find I have to purchase a trigger if I want it to work off camera, as my nikon D5300 won't trigger it. Your video was very interesting and helpful, so thank you.
very nice video. I already saw lot of these but good to recap :-) Which umbrella diameter did you use from prophoto ? Do you prefer it to a softbox or just easier for traveling ? better to use a white surface in that case than a silver one, too harsh ?
I love how you really do explain what’s necessary to make your instructions useful. For example you are very detailed with using 2 full CTO gels for the sun shots. How far to place the light. … Most youtubers would just mention using a cto. Your videos are actually useful! Thank you, Vanessa!
I just have one point: the shot you took for the bride and the groom could’ve been different if the shutter was more than 350 to have a better focus on the pic given that the setting in outdoors in the day light.
I liked the index card tucked into the flash--it is bigger than the flash's bounce card, and some may be working with budget or older flashes that don't have a bounce card. Neat little trick!
Why not? Little should exercise never hurt anyone. Plus it’s not always about the stabilization, as long as your shutter speed is high enough that helps too
You're a pro and you're teaching people via youtube that is amazing. But, Please don't let the original terminologies fade away. Please always refer to landscape and portrait orientations.. please be very precise while sharing your knowledge to the others and to the newer generation. Otherwise you're just great. Keep it up
Why don't you guys use curvy, plus sized, or full figure models of color? You guys seem to only favor skinny pastey models. Flash doesn't always work the same for every model especially those of darker tones
Although the tips themselves are instructive, the flash gear needed quickly got very expensive, to support this long-range flash work that lights up the outdoor environment as well as the models. Would like to see tips that suit more close-range work that can be done with fairly basic gear like a trigger and 1 or 2 mid-range speedlights with 1 or 2 reflectors. As an aside, couldn’t help being distracted by the instructor and model being out of focus in the opening scenes, where the video camera seemed to be focused on the distant background.
Is this a serious video ? "its a little bright with the exposure compensation on" so I'll turn it down and use flash ?? (why not just leave the exposure compensation where it was). And a great trick with a piece of white card to bounce the light (revelation) ... already there on even a cheap flash (called a bounce card by some strange coincidence)
Really educational as always Vanessa! One question, when you’re using the CTO gels, what WB setting do you have in camera? I always use K mode and set up to 5500 if I’m using my flash. Thanks for sharing!
Voting for Vanessa to be a model in the next video! 😉 Great performance and info, all the rest of comment is about Adorama part. And I'm still jealous she got Juliana as one. Incredible face, but too far away from me to reach 😁 As for the video, great for beginners and advanced photographers, learnt few new things, but like someone mentioned already, up to the point when Profoto gear was brought up. Unless you're already known an paid photographer no one will risk and buy 1 light for 2000$+ with couple basic extras like filters and softbox i.e. In equipment list below Canon 1DX Mk II is missing (used and mentioned on lot of images shown in video) and 470EX is listed twice with what looks like same website links, but 1st showing that no longer available? Video barely month old. And 2nd showing 404 error, which is only worse. So, basically started nicely only to be add for Profoto further in it. Conclusion? Get loan or extra job to afford it all 😉
What an awesome video!!! I shoot weddings and honestly learned a good few things today, the fact that I'm in the UK with poop light means I will certainly be using some of your ideas. Thanks Vanessa :-)
Sun is NOT yellow/orange, but white, as sunlight contains all colours from the visible colour spectrum (rainbow). At SUNRISE and SUNSET, Sun appears with warmer tones because they have longer wavelength and can travel further and the rest of the colours are being scattered away....
first 2 tips don't work. pulling the wide angle diffuser panel out, or using that small piece of card... does not change the effective size of the light source in an outside environment. all your doing is actually wasting light. the only way to make you light look more "natural" or a better term softer, is increase dramatically the effective size of the light source relative to subject. either strap to flash a big reflector panel 25-30cm etc to flash, or even better, mount a white collapsible 1m diameter white reflector on a stand right next to you that you can bounce flash into and direct back to your subject. remember, size of light source matters. the example pic shown is exaggerating the result, and is obviously benefiting from a close wall on the patio area, so the light isn't simply coming from the card.
Hmmm, 7 tips? More like 27 tips, they just kept coming! Wonderful part about making 3 different lighting methods look consistent in a shoot too. Thank you.
I always learn something from your videos, even something subtle like how to shoot while holding a reflector or using gels. And seeing some of them again in a compilation is fine by me. Plus, it’s just so obvious that you and Julianna enjoy working together. I hope your move doesn’t end the two of you working together.
I really like my little T7. It's the camera I learned on. It has its limitations but if you can learn to shoot low light and off camera flash with it you can shoot with any other camera.
Point to be noted look at the shutter speed she is using when taking pictures. The highest the shutter speed the less light you gonna get in picture the lover the shutter the more loght you will get
Wow thanks so much for this detailed video. I've found myself in those big rooms many times and tried to find something to bounce the flash off, love the fold out reflector you had there will try to find that for myself. Thanks again for a very informative video.
