Buy Mark's Studio Lighting DVD: www.studiolight... In this week's episode Mark answers the question, "Why are you using a flash when shooting outside in bright sunlight?"
No need to switch to Canon. Check your auto ISO settings. Even though you're in manual mode and you've set your ISO to 100, it automatically tries to get the biggest ISO value in order to get rid of the dark space. Just switch auto ISO off and always use manual. That way you can control the brightness/darkness much better. Not sure what is the best value for D3200 for not getting any film grain but with my former camera D3000, the biggest value was 800. Try it out! =)
@Uscbryan949 nikons do it better since you don't see any curtains at max sync speed unlike canon with which you need to use around 160. nad yeah 250 is enough, just use higher aperture.
only thing I wasn't sure about this video was ..what setting do you put the flash on, I mean the external flash? Is it ITTL for Nikon or ettl for cannon or manual mode?? If its manual mode how do you work out which setting to put it on or just trial an error Great Videos as usual though..
Great video Mark, Nikon user, I understand how to underexpose the background in manual mode but how do you adjust for the flash exposure in manual mode, and why do you use TLL and not TLLBL mode on the flash outdoors.
nice video i love yell videos very great information and advice thanks i would love to see a video about doing a fashion shoot at a grave yard, or a fashion photo shoot at night with speedlights or strobes also do a graffiti shoot at mid day great video thanks again
Mark, I look at strobes at adorama. For decent low budget strobes which would you suggest?So of these are confusing and expensive! Thanx mark great stuff from a future strobist.
Mark Wallace, my external speedlite flash is a generic Neewer one that doesn't have high-speed sync capability. So I have to shoot at 1/200 or maybe 1/250 at the fastest. Is there anything I could do to underexpose a very bright bckgrnd without having to purchase a new flash?
I have tried to take a picture like mark at 5:49 with the popup flash and everything is very bright, I have tried at diferent distances but I have the same result, super bright image, I have a 600D what am I doing wrong?
Hi. Thanks for the tutorial. I have problem when I use flash. Everywhere in the photo is properly exposed, however on white colours it is over exposed and the colour of white changes to pink!!! Any advice or suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Two questions: will you always use the flash at direct angle on the subject, like you did on the video? And also, would you ever change the flash strenght to adjust the proper flash power directed to the subject? Like to help diminish the "flash appearance" sometimes the subject gets?
For ppl without hss on your flash, instead of adjusting the shutter speed to get the correct exposure for the ambient light, stop down the aperture instead. Now yes you are sacrificing that bokeh effect because of the higher aperture but you can at least get a similar effect as far as lighting goes. This just shows the benefit of having hss capabilities.
The song starting at 2:01 is used by DigitalRevTV as well. Does anyone can tell me the name of this catchy tune or where tu buy it, if it is not composed for RU-vid photography channels only^^
Hi, Would would you provide the caption of your videos? To download automatic captions of a video, you must be the owner of the video. If this is the case: Log into your account Subtitles pane, look for a track titled English: Transcript by machine. Click the Download button next to the track. So, RU-vid saves a file called captions.sbv on your computer. A. BLS is just a text file with time code information. You can use it in a tool captions or open it with an ordinary text editor.
Ahh yes, move into the soft light in the shade and blast her with the harsh directional flash light ;P hahaha just kidding of course, i got the point. Nice video
@SatanicJamnic Does your ego feel better, now that you've publicly criticized someone's tutorial? This isn't a shoot for a fashion magazine; its to demonstrate how to use flash for fill in bright sunlight, which I think the host did very well.
I am thinking it's iso 100 because he is trying to underexpose the shot before introducing the flash, and he is keeping an open aperture for a shallow depth of field. A high iso would negate anything that he is trying to accomplish by increasing the shutter speed, because iso affects overall exposure, i.e, foreground and background.
you used use matrix metering. if you used spot meeting, the subject would be exposed properly but the background would be blown. with what he did, expose the background then add flash to bumpe up the light on your subject.
