The Best Low Light Photographers All Do THIS! 

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Good on you for not defaulting to wide aperture and ISO advice. Like one may not be available and the other is a whole different problem. This is just good advice for actually making photos- rather than just leaning on simplistic exposure basics. Also, Batis ftw! Such a great set of primes. We're so spoiled by lens choices in the Sony ecosystem.

3.35 i spat my drink out my mouth. Bro your humour is out of this world. honestly, you are such a fun guy to watch. i wish u all the best in this life

I love the look of on camera flash for nights out with friends, super nostalgic looking

perfect timing! finally returning to japan in december shooting full frame for the first time (last few trips were shot w/ aps-c and micro4/3) - thanks always for the motivation dude :D

That napkin tip is so, so useful! I've used small diffusers before for in-camera flash but I'm usually only using it if I didn't bring any other gear, this will be a lifesaver.

Great tips. Many thanks. I recently found your channel and have been enjoying your videos! Useful information is always appreciated!

I really appreciate this video. I’ve struggled for years getting any decent night photos and they come out just a grainy mess. Looks like I need to get one of those LED lights, I didn’t know that existed!

Been following you for a few years. You have a rare tallent to make "same" videos over and over and make em fresh. Always a new angle to an old theme (y)

Love this thumbnail! Really eye-catching. Great vid man!

Just a tip as well that if you have a built in camera flash, if it has a little hinge you can always point it up and try to bounce the light down if you're in the right environment. :)

This covered actually a ton of basics in photography in such a short video, great and helpful watch!

Your videos and information are so great, I just had to sub! Thanks bro!

Also love the positivity and humour in your vids

Most enjoyable, fun and informative, thank you.

Jason thanks for this I am doing a low light portrait session today aswell as a day one today in Central London United Kingdom with my Nikon D5500 these tips I shall use. Stay blessed

Thank you for this video! I'm planning to go to Disney next month.

Excellent video @JasonVong ! Very useful info. I definitely will look into getting some of the constant output LED lights. This time of year I rarely get off work before dark. I find if I want to do any shooting (almost always for fun), I will be in constant “negotiation” mode about how to set up exposure. I generally shoot with a Nikon Z6 and a Nikkor Z 24-70 MM F4 S Line lens. I sometimes use an f1.8 prime, but find compositionally, it is more limiting to be at fixed focal length than to shoot at F4 after dark. I have not figured out how to isolate a subject who is a good distance away using a 35 MM lens. I need more practice to understand the options with fixed length lenses at night.

Finally learned how to use the histogram! Thanks!

Great video!!! Depending on lens size, also try using slowest shutter speed that you can with without a tripod and avoid camera shake.

Not me actually pausing the video to look for Waldo loll.

Here's another Low Light mistake I've done recently! Forgetting that your screen brightness is set brighter than usual for a sunny day... All pictures looked alright on the camera screen, but they were considerably underexposed on the computer.

Thanks a lot Jason, I really appreciate this.

Thanks for the tips, so easy and practical.

Great advice, I am definitely going to start carrying a LED light with me.

This is twice in like five days @anocam has popped up in someone's RU-vid channel I saw him a UK RU-vid channel based in London using the Fuji XT5. Great photographer.

Dude! You're a pro and I thanks to you for this quantity of tips

Great content!

This was really helpfull thx!

Yep! It's official you da man, good stuff brother I'm picking up what your putting down, thanks for sharing, I'm sure if I continue to work hard my photos will start looking less like I used a 1970s Polaroid camera and more like J V's ✌️

For A7riii(or a camera with flash sync port). Neo 2/3 with the flash sync port will grant you LED with a flash. Great setup for portrait photography if you want on camera flash. expose for highlight and pull the shadows. great low light photography option. Just keep in mind LED can be blinding. So don't go full power when trying to use it to get focus.

Great video as usual! I hate the built in flash for everything except one thing: fill light in counter light. I never managed to get as even of a look with my speedlite mounted on the camera as with using the built in pop-up flash. But for anything else, external, off-camera speedlites ftw!

Grain... is GOOOD.

Thanks JV

I paused at 3:48 so I could find Waldo before continuing the video. Also, I like the trick with placing a napkin over the flash, I had never seen that before!

This video is fantastic

Very nice video. I love the tips u gave appreciate it alot thanks!

hey, great videos you are doing! wanted to ask if you can make a like detailed guide to low light street photography with setups and settings and stuff :)

Your semi dad jokes have really grown on me! You're favorite photo RU-vidr, keep it up!

On the on camera flash. X-t30 you can layer about 2-3 scotch tape(very small). It will defuse the on camera flash making it more useable and not over powering. At the same time allow you to still close the camera flash on top of the camera. You can also apply a layer of wax paper with the scotch tape to provide more diffusion. In the session for jpeg set it to recover shadows and put noise reduction to 2. It should allow for pretty good jpegs when shooting at night. Still shoot raw+jpeg. Can really make great portraits with the X-t30 with just the 56mm f1.2 and using flash. Just a note for the X-t30 the lenses hoods will effect the flash. So remove the lenses hood on large lenses like the 56mm f1.2 or even the 18-55mm f2.8-4.

Thank you !

great update

Thank you so much! That's my weakness, now i know how to solve my problems about low light. Fist bump

Very helpful video thanks.😀

Good video, i actually learned something :)

What helps most is a big sensor and a fast prime lens that cost that sweet sweet dough. Same thing with a better IBIS (for lower SS) and a faster processor (for better results at higher ISOs), which come with newer models. Again, just throwing cash at the problem. There's only so much you can achieve with a budget zoom and a budget APS-C camera, for example. Also, for those portable constant light sources - it'd be nice to mention how you're supposed to arrange them for the shoot. You're probably using both hands (and maybe even a wall or your torso) to squeeze every bit of stability of that camera in the dark, so you can't hold the light yourself. So you're either asking the model to hold the light and directing'em (so you have to frame tightly with a longer focal length) or you have an assistant, like in your vid (which is quite a big requirement, esp. for spontaneous, low budget stuff or just scheduling).

Without bright lights in the scene, when shooting in low light, I underexpose by two stops and bring those back in post. Good trade for having more flexibility in iso and aperture. I'd wish cameras would have a configurable mode to do this and bringing exposure up just for the preview image by the value you defined to underexpose it.

Out of all the times you've been to Disney, I've never had the opportunity to bomb your vids 😂. Your renewed energy is 👍

I finally watched this video. Oddly, like a Find Waldo momment, I found myself at 3:29. Great video, some really good points. I'll be heading to Japan again next week. Going to explore the Western part of Japan and maybe Fukouka in the South for this trip along with doing the Ikebukuro Halloween Cosplay Festival again this year. If I run into you again in Japan, I will buy you and your wife a drink.

niiiiiice tips 🤩🔥🙌

4:53 boosting the shadows will bring up all noise from dark image like that. Then you return shadows back just to hide all that noise. The only thing is useful is Full frame camera portable light, fast lens (f2.8 or f1.8) with stabilization with shutter speed usually 1/15.

This was actually good....

Back in Japan? Welcome back ☺️

Would have loved a little more info on the RAW. Do you have other videos explaining this?

Thank you for the great video. I believe using a light source is not exactly a low light situation, I consider the introduction of a light source as light pollution. What is the best camera beyond Sony Alpha S series for true low light or near black out non IR conditions?

Thankyou so much for this i am a new photographer and learning so much from you, do have any recommendation on how i can improve my sports photography pictures? i am using nikon D3100 is it to old? thanks

a "like" for Tokyo Shinjuku 🤩😍

nice tuto

Disneyland is the right place for learning photographie and making film 😍 I saw where you was... but not Disneyland paris !

Great tips indeed. But for still photography and street lighting with neon lights all around similar to yours. My camera has nop flash, so I wouldn’t be forced to use it..! But…AV versus M..? ( canon 6d ii with a 24-70mmm f/2.8 lens ) ISO..? Speed..? F..stop setting..? Always RAW, of course! I’m curious to see what answers i get. I would never be at your level, so the ad showed would be wasted on me sadly!

Nice simple tips all in 5 minutes.

I make flash diffusers out of empty plastic milk cartons. I can fold them any way from a single thickness to multiple thicknesses.

Just random thought, but what if you put duct tape on your built on flash to cover half of it, so it only fires from either the left or right? Would that give the subject more shadows than a full flash?

What would you recommend for metering? Partial for portrait and matrix for total scene?

Bruh the algorithm, I just went out a did street photography with a friend last night 🤣🤣

Jason I use Godox led lights on my Nikon D5500

Banger vid as always, just in time for my 1st trip to japan!

good video. Thanks . The only thing is it is so fast its hard to read the comments that appear like the into about hair light. I am needing to replay and replay to read it all. Perhaps slow the info down?

hey what's your opinion about the new fuji film XT 5 for low light photography

Does flash compensation help with using on-camera flash?

So which focus mode should you shoot then ?

What is the name of the small flash or portable flash I don’t see it recommended, thank you.

Is that Frame of Travel? Love their photography

Built in flash? Bounce it!

What if i dont want to use any picture profile? Can i still get just as good low light results with shooting straight from the camera?

3:30, i dont blame him. seems right to me 😂

The (obvious) problem with an LED is you need an assistant to hold it (if you aren't shooting with a tripod/monopod).

How would you use the led if you’re solo?

Excellent video. I definitely needed this. Hoping I could put these tips to work soon at Disney world.

Thx! The last 2 are really helpful!

Yet another killer vid Jason! Question: do you have a video for shooting in harsh lighting? When the sun is at its peak?

You didn't mention anything about using a lens with a wider aperture or time exposures combined with flash

I love the content

Nice video 👍 What do you think about the small Lume cube square cube lights vs the larger rectangular portable led like the one you showed?

I'm confused if I'm filming in the dark should the minimum iso be at 12,800, or should the maximum be set at 12,800 ?

Bro you are the best dude you can be my teacher anytime bro

I immediately found Waldo lol

great video thanks!

Would love a colab with Pat Kay

You use UV fliter?

Great tips!

If so, why do they add a flash?

Good Video.. keep it up.!

Wahoo First :-)

Soooo am I the only guy who decided to pause to do the Where's Waldo? XD

I prefer manuel focus fast prime lenses for night photography my favorites are a Rokinon 20mm1.8 and a old Takumar 50mm1.4. When using manuel focus lenses my camera defaults to spot metering and gives me focus confirmation even in low light hand held and I have 4.5 stops of Stabilization with in camera IBIS. I like the idea of using a video light t lighten the scene and I will have to try that

What’s the best iso for night

I use my cellphone as my portable light lol.

Oh fudge😆😅

who found waldo?