How to Get the Right Exposure with Flash 

I've watching tons of video on flash and this is by far the most concise, logical, and clear explanation I've seen by a long shot. And this might sound like a weird compliment, but your delivery really brought it all together. You speak with exceptional enunciation in a tone that conveys patience with and empathy for your virtual students. Reminds me of Eber from Hardware Canucks, who has a similar delivery. Anyway bravo, you should 100% be putting a premium price on your pedagogy.

How do you not have more subscribers?? The quality of content is stellar and the explanations are so straightforward, no fluff. Keep it up!

Many thanks for the vid! I was struggling to understand how to set up exposure with flash. Just invested in first Speedlite and triggers and was taking my 42 year old brain some effort to work out! ✌️

I absolute love your tutorials - informative, succinct, and effortless

Wow at last it makes sense. The light is much faster than the shutter. Soo the light speed is what freezes the motion🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ do you know how many experts have rambled on for hours on this topic and said nothing. Thanks

i have been shooting for years, but always been intimidated by flash photography. this video was absolutely the most helpful one I've seen and I've watched a lot of video. thank u❤

top notch production level, love it!

You are a gem. You explained this concept so simply. thank you very much.

this has the be the most amazing channel about lighting I've found. Im just starting in photography and this is incredibly helpfull

Thanks,great work.

Nicely explained ❤

Too much useful info in one video. Need to watch couple more times😉

Nice evaluation.

thanks a lot for this video

thank you, you explained clearly.

How can u have only 25k subscriber?!!!! This channel is so good to be true..! Thx

Great channel

fantastic video, thank you!!

Your the man! Thank you!

Great video - very helpful! QUESTON:

Great video! How about the synch speed for flash? Where you set the shutter speed either 1/160th, 1/200th, etc depending on the camera model. And then there is HSS for sport+ fast moving subjects. Would you make a video on that?

Dear I love your video and I am starting approaching food photography thanks to your explanations! I have just a question: how you can use 1/200 ss on a Eos 6D? Isn't the s.speed limit for this camera 1/180 ? Thank u so much for you amazing contents and beautiful lights

Hi, awesome content as always. Quick question, what kind of light do you suggest for both videography & photography? I mainly shoot products (1-5 layer wedding cakes). I also want to make video commercials for products but can't afford at the moment to buy a bunch of lighting. Will the Godox VL150 be enough for my situation?

Amazing video! Could I know what you use as the backdrop? Tried searching for it online but I don't know what exactly to search for! 😂

This is a useful topic, thanks for the video. There's still something I don't understand though: when using a slow shutter speed, and a flash, why aren't we seeing trails for the falling fruit? I understand the point that the flash is much faster, say 1/10000th, and that "freezes" the action for the duration the flash is firing BUT the flash is only firing for a small amount of the overall shutter-open time (because we have a show shutter speed), and I'd think that the "rules" for ambient light would apply -- ie we'd see a blur because the shutter speed is so slow. What am I missing?

Great video and well explained. It still baffles me how don't we see any motion blur with flash. The object is still being exposed for the same duration of time. I would expect it to be frozen bright in one point of the image but also blurred in the plane of motion during the exposed movement.

I have recently come across your channel (apologies for not finding you sooner) and your explanations are clear and concise. I have been using flash for quite a while without thoroughly understanding the concept and technical side. I loved your video on T1 and T5 flash duration and is always in mind now when setting up. I hope you don't mind me asking the following question. When I watch newsreels and see journalist photographers using flash, I notice that the flash is firing multiple times. Are they pressing the shutter button that fast for many photos, or is the flash firing multiple times for the one exposure/photo? Balancing the required light on a subject with one or two speedlights be they in softboxes or naked on stands is fascinating and rewarding when accomplished.

i am watching your video for learning ❌ i watching video for your gag ✅ 🤣

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I love!. Where do you get your backdrops from?

Hi! Are you using burst mode? I tried the settings that you had in the video and I observed that the camera shutter speed does play a role in making my picture crisp. At 1/100 or 1/250 camera shutter speed, the wedges are perfectly crisp and in focus. At 1/5 shutter speed the motion is blurred. What am I doing wrong? Thanks! P.S I used the same power of the flash and also different powers, still doesn't make a difference at 1/5 camera shutter, movement is still blurred.

I did learn a good amount but im still confused how you can easily/quickly know what to set the iso and aperture to. I would like to get a flash for macro photography such as live bugs. Fussing with the settinga trying to figure out the exposure would lead me to missing the shot.

question: when you lowered down the shutter speed to 1/10 of a sec. (6:09) won't the sensor get any ambient light that would blur the motion? or is it because when you dialed those settings with f20 and iso 100 thats why theres no ambient registering?... does this basically mean that if i want to freeze motion using flash i just have to make sure that the flash power level is strong enough at a minimum setting of ISO and aperture that it doesn't register ambient? Thank you in advance hope you can help me clear this out. 🤔As usual great lesson! Im going through each of your videos one by one 😅

how about internal flash? can i use that's concept to internal flash or not?

How would I know the exposure is correct when using flash ? What do you set the meter to? Also if your still able freeze motion when using a flash at lower shutter speeds does that mean camera shake would be eliminated as well even at low shutter speeds?

Can you please make a video on how to recreate sunlight, specially sunset quality 😔

Hello Sir! What’s your Instagram handle please also how were you able to use both godox and profoto flashes?

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Well okay great, so how do you manage the flash power? You're treating that as if we should just experiment. Literally every other type of lighting you have exact numbers that you should shoot for. With the flash there's nothing there anymore there's no guide numbers anymore and so it's impossible to actually know how to expose it right. That's what I was hoping to learn here and I'm really disappointed that that's not here.