Thanks for this video. This is one of the best I've found that really helped me understand how best to use an on-camera flash. Great jobs of explaining it very clearly and easily to understand.
When using Rembrandt lighting the shadow with the triangle portion of the face should be closest to the camera. Not on the far side of the face. That's essentially "broad" lighting rather than "short" or Rembrandt lighting. In classical photography the mantra is "shoot into the shadows."
Great video! I have always avoided flash for the past 4 years since I hated how direct flash looked more than high ISO and couldn’t justify the cost of picking up an adjustable speedlight for myself until now. This has been a great refresher on the fundamentals that I had forgotten.
Thank you so much for this excellent video. I got a manual flash but had a difficult time to figure out what settings to make to the flash and their relationship to the settings on the camera. This video really helps a lot with my adventure.
Great Video! Can you also make a tutorial on how to expose with Manual flash? I have a godox tt850ii manual but i have a hard time adjusting my camera setting in tandem with the flash. I just use feeling lol...
Just use your eyes lol. You really just have to take test shots until you like what you see. Don’t overthink it. If the flash is too dark on your subject, raise the power; if it’s too bright, lower the power. There are a couple things you do need to be aware of but they’re not difficult, don’t worry: - When using flash, your pictures have TWO exposures - the ambient light exposure and the flash exposure. Before you even turn on your flash, you get the ambient light exposure how you want it to look first then get the flash exposure on your subject how you want it. When using Manual flash, if the distance from the light to your subject changes, YOU have to adjust the flash power yourself. The flash will not automatically adjust it for you. You got this, bud. Just keep practising 🙂👊🏻
Lots of times you can but it’s MUCH better to get the lighting the way you want it - or as close as you possibly can - in the photo shoot. Don’t rely on postproduction to fix your lighting…..unless you’re underexposing on purpose to get a certain look in post processing later.
He changed it himself. Because he was using flash to light her he no longer needed such a high ISO of 4000. Flash is much stronger than continuous/ambient/natural light so he brought his ISO down as the natural light was no longer his main light source.
I was taught that butterfly lighting was when you cast 2 head shadows on the wall, looking like butterfly wings. I saw a moron covering my cousin's wedding on a 35mm Mamiya 500 DTL with a flash on each side. It wasn't till later that I noticed he had them plugged into the wrong sync. He later blamed the lab.
Actually, all of the pictures look pretty bad. Tons of shadows on her eyes. Just not the kind of picture that makes a model happy Moreover, I don't know why, but a lot of concert photographers think they can "bounce" their flash into black 30 foot ceilings.
All the pictures are pretty underexposed to me. I think about 2/3 of a stop more power would have made them look a lot better. And yes, I don’t know why some photographers think bouncing off really high black ceilings is something worth doing lol.
💥💥 WaaaiT ▪︎. Am I the ONLY ONE to think that the initial ▪︎▪︎ No Flash ▪︎▪︎ is Better Than the Flash pix .... I seriously saw the Pix go from acceptable to ugly... and uglier
@@richstrike8418 The only hard light was in the very beginning of the video when he was demonstrating direct flash, paparazzi style. All the other shots with bounce flash have very soft light from the ceiling. I will say that he underexposed her too much in all these. He probably needed about 2/3 of a stop more light on all of these shots. And bounce cards that small are usually garbage. Use something at least 3 times the size of that small piece of crap. Those tiny bounce cards aren’t meant to give flattering light towards the subject, they’re just there so your subject’s eyes have some semblance of a catchlight by throwing a little hard light into your subject’s face. But something like a small Flashbender Will give you much nicer quality of light bounced back into the face.
