So immediately you gave me a duh moment ...i am not a big apple fan and do not enjoy carrying an iphone as my main device but was really wishing I had access to that lidar sensor for floorplans. Using an iPad Pro makes a lot of sense and I can't believe i didnt think of that before 🤦🏼♂️. Also do you ever get white balance issues using the X3 trigger? I know the updated XPro trigger has a single pin mode to avoid those issues.
Smallrig does have a cage for the Nikon Z8 with an Arca mount on the side for vertical shooting. However, it's only available for the Z8 when paired up with the MB-N12 battery grip. The Smallrig part number is 3982.
Yeah I unfortunately had to have the "special Edition" 🤣 so there isn't. But the QnA page for the night eagle on their website has someone asking that and another user answered saying it does have one. And it does not. Lol but yeah the regular cage and most other do. 👍
hey Will, another cracking video. I'm curious - If I understand correctly you fire the flash forwards (with its diffuser) rather than backwards and bouncing of rear wall / ceiling. I get the advantage regarding avoiding color cast but doesn't this approach give you lots of hard shadows to deal with? (My own technique is to bounce backward into a large round circular white reflector when walls are coloured - but i confess it is a bit of a p.i.t.a!
Yes! it does give me hard shadows, but I have found that no matter what you do you're going to be dealing with some kind of a problem you need to correct out. This is kind of the one I have chosen because I have found it to be the easiest to work around. The pros are Better flash power Near 0 color casting from walls etc Better fill from the flash A small round white circle reflection on windows as opposed to a huge white flash reflection of the wall behind you. Which makes post editing way easier. The cons are Shadows can be a bit more defined and harder to deal with. I plan to kind of go over this more when I get a vacant home to shoot and then I can show what I'm doing. Then we can talk about the different ones. But this has been the one I have found to be the least amount of editing to deal with and to be the easiest to correct out. It doesn't make it right and it doesn't make it better than anyones else but it is what has worked for me. And when I was shooting six to seven homes a day it made the editing so much faster than bouncing it off the ceiling or a white wall or a door etc. or using a modifier.
That's cool Will - it seems a large part of shooting real estate is finding techniques to resolve problems - and you're right, there's no one simple fix that'll solve all the problems all of the time. Always good to see how others address things and understand their reasoning.. cheers Neil
Thanks Will. Do you carry a stand for the AD400 or is it always hand held? For adjoining rooms do you have additional strobes or do you relocate the AD400 and take additional images?
I hand hold everything. I don't like tripods in the first place which is kind of the antithesis of real estate photography. Lol But I hand hold it and I do a pretty good job but if you would like to use a light stand you're more than welcome to I don't see a reason not to. I do not light up other rooms through doorways. I have honestly never needed to when I blend them using enfuse. My goal is usually to do it in the fewest number of flash frames possible because that requires the least amount of editing. The only times I will ever do that is when I have an extremely large property And I have to light up a very large room and it's an open floor plan and I have to light up the kitchen or something else I will do it then but for 95% of the homes that I shoot that are under 6,000 ft² I never need to. That doesn't mean I'm right in this but I just try and do the best job with the least amount of editing and find the balance because you can go crazy with all this stuff. Like I do for my architecture clients. But for real estate it's a balance because you're on a fixed budget and the more time you take the less money you make or the more you have to charge... We all know how the conversation goes when you have to charge more money So for me it was just a balance.
@@WillGayPhoto I understand completely. Please add to your "need to share this" list a video or two on what you do differently for your architecture clients. 🙂
Kirk BL-Z7. Its not made any more, but the updated version is the BL-ZII. If you search "Kirk BL-Z7II" you should find it. Or you can copy this link - www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1609635-REG
