Hello everyone, I had the great honor of meeting Pye at WPPI this year, he is a great educator with a great personality when teaching his craft. His videos, however informative, does not do him justice in person. If you are ever able to attend any of his workshops, you will walk away forever changed! Thank you Pye
Love the way you explain all things photography. I have learned a lot just from this one video. I have only used my flashes once for a friend's Christmas portrait shoot and I have to say, I wish I had seen this video before the shoot! Thanks Pye!
Very nice, Most people get scared of flash because it is on camera. It could be the built-in flash or a Speedlight on camera and the flash is firing directly at the subject. I know it is better to get your flash off-camera, But you can definitely create a natural look using this technique with on-camera flash. The Dramatic look on camera doesn't work firing directly at the subject. Thanks for the video
This video has given me so much insight .... Pye is such an awesome instructor .... he made this topic so easy to comprehend. Now I just need to go camping
Love the CAMP acronym, I'm gonna use that. When I tutor I usually explain the relationship between flash and ambient in game theory terminology: there are win-win situations, there are winner-loser situations, like in studio where the ambient loses totally. I'm gonna use CAMP because it places it in the process. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this tutorial Pye. I haven't been the best with flash...especially off camera...in terms of where to bounce and how much power to use. I have only used on camera flash so far as off camera flash is still a bit intimidating for me. Being more of a technical learner, the acronym breakdown is extremely helpful. Will definitely commit CAMP to memory!
I am not a professional, so when I go out to shoot for my friends, I get a bit overwhelmed. Seems like they're waiting for me to setup and etc. I will use your method and advice to SLOW down and worry about CAMP! Thanks Pye for the tips!
learning everyday so much , thank you Pye!! hope your stay in PR was good, you guys were hilarious filming the shoot in San Juan :) you are an outstanding educator of light !
I love using flash as I use it more often than natural light. But this was still great on how you made it simple with a quick breakdown. I often come a way with some good tips from your tutorials even if I do happen to know what’s being talked about on a topic I still come away with something. Always Good stuff 👍
You make things ridiculously easy. Saying that I do have a question (great vid btw, always love your work), for wedding photography, would you most likely go for a dramatic look or light and airy
Great tutorial! Just bought my first set of strobes and looking forward to elevating my lighting for my clients. I love just natural light, but clients are wanting more "drama". Hoping being able to better manipulate the light will give me the results in camera vs hours of manipulation in Lr or Ps.
It's a bit strange that Pie talks about ISO and Flash power and did not mention aperture. You also want to consider aperture which has a huge impact on flash power. Moreover, closing down the aperture can darken the exposure making it more dramatic. I would consider the aperture first. Then shutter speed will effect the maximum flash sync speed. For Nikon D750 this is 1/200. If you want max flash power, then shutter needs to be equal or under max flash sync speed.
Thank you so much, nicer video again! But on the second shot /11:47 the girl with the hat on/, the flashed image has very unnatural color..toooo pinky. What WB was used for that shot? I guess with flash we have to adjust Kelvin settings...or?!
I see you tend to favour using f:1.4 and an ND filter on some of your shots. Is there a reason for doing so, other than dof? Would using hss achieve the same result? I hate using filters unnecessarily.
I understand that your concept is very good but I think it is incomplete. If I want my environment to be brighter I have to increase the shutter and open the camera aperture to let in more light. Therefore, I would have to use HSS since I am out of camera sync. Achieving the dramatic effect is simple because it would operate within the camera's sync
Victor Miguel Perez Pedrogo you wouldn’t increase your shutter because that would let less light into the camera, thus darkening the frame. If anything you would decrease it which would have no issue with sync
People who hate flash photography baffle Me. Their dislike of the following properties in an image are, to Me a riddle: - Sharpness - Clarity - Accentuation of an object or a part thereof - Rim light - Contrast between lights and shadows - reporter subtle or abrupt. That is, essentially, what those who hate flash, want: snapshots.
Maybe they just didn't like the fact that it was an ad for his courses disguised as an online class. Think about it: If you really loved this vid you must be thinking of signing up for his online pay classes.
Pye, you explained this very well, however there are a couple of things I think that could be improved: 1. You seemed to do a lot of guess work about what the fill in or on the other hand, "overpowering" flash power should be. This involved lots of trial and error. A simple solution would be to use an external hand held light meter. First, get a general idea of what the exposure should be. Then set the light meter to your correct ambient exposure, and find out how many stops you are off. Put that many stops in your light. This does not involve guess work, and taking lots of photos, trying to guesstimate the exposure on your back of camera small screen, that is anyway very deceptive and inaccurate. 2. Mathematics is life. And an artist also has to know mathematics. Rule of thirds, Golden Ratio, Fractals, I can go on and on.
We don’t care about flash or not. We care if it’s a good image.Tools are just tools. No I’m not buying Profoto for 4 times the price. Round in nice but a rarely shoot round people !
