High-speed Flash Sync (HSS) tutorial. 

Mr. Niekerk uses his intellect more than the norm.

The thing that makes your tutorials so valuable is the fact that you repeat the point many times, from different perspectives (camera, flash, and settings) AND you tie them all together. Great job teaching a pretty complex concept!

Amazing Teadhing Video, so much I never had a clue about Speed Lights. Thank You so much.

Really accurate and straightforward information for someone who understands flash, but not HSS. I wish someone would have it explained it to me this way when I was learning it years ago.

Sir many many thanks for teach mi Flash distance my grandfather was photographer 1947 my father was photographer and now i m photographer but 30 year my caryer first time see your vidio and understand what is flash distance

Great video Neil. As someone who's been using flash for more than a decade, even I picked up a couple of things I didn’t realise.

Hi Neil. Just to say a HUGE thank You for this tutorial. You been my Mentor for years as I bought your lessons under Craftsy now Bluprint. You have been of GREAT help to me on my journey of photography and to You I salute Sir😇

Your videos are simple, easy to understand reminders of the basics....Thank you!

Thank you, I've been struggling with flash for some time, your explanation made it all click into place for me.

I owe my ability to properly use speedlight flashes to you. Over 10 yrs ago I found your tutorials and learned to bounce etc. You are a great teacher and I refer ppl to you that are wanting to learn flash. Thank you so much!

This is really amazing. Thanks for sharing all this knowledge.

Neil I love your blog and your sharing in these videos - thanks so much!

Wonderfully concise tutorial, thank you Neil

Your videos are all excellent! Thank You!

Realmente é a melhor e mais completa explicação sobre HSS que eu já vi... obrigado, Neil... abraços.

Excellent job at explaining HSS.. Your explanations are very easy to follow and understand and you're an outstanding instructor..

Very helpful. Clear explanation. Manythanks

Hi Neil, your intro was so true but more importantly your tutorial on this aspect of photography was the best I’ve seen yet. Your teaching just suited me, others may prefer other styles of course. What I liked was the degree and effort you went to ins-till understanding and knowledge in a pedagogical way. I’m a subscriber and want to say thanks, and do take care.

What a great tutorial based on why's and how's

I know this is an older video, but I just came across it. I have had Godox flashguns for a few years, and I didn't even know about the distance scale on the display....very enlightening! Thank you for such a great tutorial.

Thank you that was the clearest explanation I have heard

Excellent explanation on Flash light technics. Would have to rewatch this to put into practice.

Thank you, Neil! My best gadget is a black foamy thing! :)

Very helpful and well explained. Thank you so much for sharing. Would love to see more videos on different aspects of flash photography.

thank you Neil .South-African residing in the middle east . Lekkerrrrrrrrrrrr

Ah ha! Thank you. That's clever. I've never heard of the P.A.I.D acronym and f11 for 10ft is a great place to start. I'm off to memorise some numbers, and practice. Thank you.

Thank you very much Neil, I find this information very helpful indeed.

Thanks Neil ..This was MOST needed in my case

omg, i love you. thank you for this!

This is so helpful to my photography journey thank you very much sir

Thanks for your Videos, Neil. I've been shooting since the mid 1970's and watching your videos, I'm learning things I just never knew. Really awesome! I do have a conundrum, though and would appreciate your covering it. I have many speedlights including some original 285's that I still use for real estate photography, to light background spaces and rooms, calculating their own light. Still works. My usual kit is 3 YN968n speedlights. They all talk to each other of course, but I also have 2 YN 622n trigger/receivers and a 622n TX trigger to use if everything else is engaged. I also have studio strobes with battery packs that I use for Studio and on locations where lots of light is needed. If I use any of the YN 622's to fire my totally MANUAL Neewer/Flashpoint 600ws studio strobes, they surprisingly work in HSS right up to 1/8000. I've often done that where even on 1/32 power, they are just too strong. I don't understand how that can happen and just wonder if you could explain it. Thanks in advance ...in case you do.

Thank you! Excellent presentation! I remember these basics when I first was learning about the f16 rule and flash guide numbers. I remember using strobes back in the day they were fully manual. So you had to know the guide number, the ISO, and through experience you can just know what the F stop output of the flash would be at any given distance. Peace, Sal 💪🏻📸

Brilliant tutorial - well presented and you speak clearly. A great teacher! Now I just wish i could remember it all when i am taking photos. I tend to panic and my brain switches off - more practice needed.

Thank you very much

This is great stuff! Not too many people use the GN is sadness . Thanks for sharing

Just a quick word, I have cracked it! setting for HSS on my Lumix FZ1000 II, I had to do a full reset on the camera as I had most things turned off and thought it may be impacting other settings, It comes under fill in flash and second-curtain sync with mechanical shutter, Tried and tested it and it works at all shutter speeds up to 1/4000, unfortunately the Lumix manual is very vague and not very helpful at all with this and more to do with trial and error and sheer bloody mindedness! Once again thanks for your comments and keep up the good work and if anyone has one of these cameras, now you know how it's done! Now I can go ahead and upgrade to the V1 flash for a lot more power!

hi there thanks for your video i have got an outdoor shoot coming up and i have been practising with my son. now i understand whats happening and how to control my exposure better thank you very much

Good information

Great one Neil. No I understand guide numbers. We’ll explained!!! William

Why this video isn't more popular, I have no idea. Great tutorial

your voice so sweet i love it and information u give its easy

Thanks Neil for simplifying the flash exposition with the f11, 10 feet rules. Also when shooting outdoor in day light, I tend to use ND filters to bring the ambient shutter speed down into flash synch zone.

f11_10 feet magic number !

so sorry to inform you. for me to understanding looking and do is my life.

Thank you, Neil. Understanding that shutter speed reenters the equation when using HSS is a revelation! In the spirit of reexamining assumptions: does the sensor's crop factor have to be considered when setting the zoom on the flashgun? i.e. If I'm I'm adding direct fill flash to an ambient capture when shooting a 25mm lens on MFT should I zoom the flash to 50mm to cover the equivalent field of view? Or, should it be set to the actual focal length of 25mm?

Sir plz tell how to measure distance when use soft box and when i bonce flash

Sir you are good teacher My question onse again when i use speed light on camera it sow distance but when use triger no sow distance i have d 750 Nikon with sb 5ooo flash use with outdoor at ss 1000 f2.8 light is no proper on the subject at ss 250 ok How to measure distance

Neil, thanks for your great tutorial on high speed flash sync. Am impressed with your portfolio. Am curious as to how u got into photography, Seems like u have a disciplined approach. Formal studies and/or OJT? 😎😎

With Godox V860iiC I watched this great video setting as per shown. My distance display will not indicate anything at all. I see the scale but no mark or display of distance. Any idea what might be happening? Thanks

will any trigger show the feet as the one you're using ? I have the Good Xpro and this device doesn't show the feet when making changes to the flash.

I use an EX 430 III RT with a guide number of 43m (do not know how much it is in feet) with my M50 mark II. What about FEL? I founf out that TTL gets the exposure spot on if I use FEL with TTL.

What, I think is another thing that you need to put into the equation, is modifiers. They rob out more power from the flash don't they? So that is something else to calculate.

This range meter in M mode on flash is different in sunlight and in a dark environment or it's equally approximate?

Can I use High Speed Sync on the Nikon SB-700 and my Nikon Z6ii ?

Hi what is mean flash exposure lock ???

good explanation , but lens in mm distance in feet , not logical.

Hello Neil You said leave me any question and you would be happy to help. So I am asking. I am not sure you can help me on this one because there are so many variables. Your tutorial was great. It is repeatable but my situation I am trying to figure out before going into the field to test and come up with a repeatable way to get correctly exposed images in manual mode with flash. First I would like to use High Speed Sync to photograph fast moving objects like birds or animals using a shutter speed of 1000 to 2500.. I want to just use the flash as a fill, not as the main flash. (I know this can be done, I have seen videos and websites that describe the process with results but not any information or details on flash or camera setting, seems like they are guessing and or trial and error) Using a long lens say 400 2.8 to 600 f4 with 1.4 or 2x extenders also using a product called a better beamer. mountainnature.com/Photography/techniques/flash/betterbeamer.asp digitalbirdphotography.com/4.3.html Fresnel lenses can increase a flash up to 2 stops of light. The hard part is up to 2 stops, there is nothing set in stone and many variables. You can not readthe back of the flash to determine correct exposure and birds in flight move fast and if they travel towards you things change quickly as far a change in distance. I did email people using this technique but only one response and they said basically (guess) trial and error. I would like to make this a little more consistent or repeatable. I wish there was and automatic way to do this but if there was, anyone could do this. Any help would be appreciated.