Loved seeing your full process and your honest presentation of the challenges. It gives me confidence in my own process seeing photographers I respect on UA-cam dealing with the some of the same issues.
Thanks for such an honest and balanced video. Just wondering if there are old Nikon lenses that have the same character as the expensive Leica for us less fortunate enthusiasts? Lovely relaxing video to watch and learn.
I should do some tests in the studio as I never seen any banding with HSS. With old school hyper sync for sure but not with HSS. I only have cheap Godox strobes and shoot almost 100% of my outdoor shots with strobes. I do agree, using ND filters will be less stress on the strobes. I would need at least 6 stops if I shoot f2 with my GFX.
Just did a shoot similar to this at golden hour and the wrong direction of the flash made most of the pictures look like a cheap AI collage... Lesson learned
I think you're being too hard on yourself. Everyone has to take a couple of test photos at the beginning to see how things look. All of the rest of your pics after the test photos looked fine regardless of where the sun was coming from in relation to the strobe. You said it at the end (paraphrased), it doesn't matter what the technical flaws are with photos as long as the client is happy. It thus follows that happy clients are paying clients. Good job! Now, for the high-speed sync work-around, those are good notes to consider. I always find HSS a bit of a frig to set up anyway and would much rather use a different solution. Yours seems to work well.
I started in 1980 - I’ve used light meters for a lot of my career- with histograms I am good without one. I had one shot off and the rest were good. But I know many still use them very successfully for their work.
The hss comes with its problems. I’ve actually considered the Hasselblad route because of their leaf shutters. I’m hoping that the shutter tech in some the new cameras coming out will allow us to synch at higher speeds - manufacturers seem so hell bent on increasing FPS when higher synch speed would be so much more useful.
😂 would that be what your client would like? Remember, we shoot for our clients, they right our checks. She absolutely loved the images because they showed environment.
I would never think you would have that type of scenery behind the alley. Makes me think differently of everyday scenario.
There’s a little pockets everywhere, we just have to look for them
Loved seeing your full process and your honest presentation of the challenges. It gives me confidence in my own process seeing photographers I respect on UA-cam dealing with the some of the same issues.
We all have the mountains to climb in some shoots. It’s what we do
Thanks for posting. Nice to see other folks, specially pros, dealing with the same issues as I. Some good hints for me to use in the future.
Thank you for taking the time to watch
Thank you as always. Great learning and content 🙏
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Great Video
Thanks for such an honest and balanced video. Just wondering if there are old Nikon lenses that have the same character as the expensive Leica for us less fortunate enthusiasts? Lovely relaxing video to watch and learn.
Honestly I think many of the older F-mount lenses are amazing. But my all time favorite is the 35-70 f/2.8 Loved everything about that lens.
Really interesting. Thank you.
I hope that’s a good interesting! Thank you for watching
@@kaskoPhoto Absolutely! Have much to learn. Getting a natural look from flash is right up there. Glad to have stumbled across your work 👍
I should do some tests in the studio as I never seen any banding with HSS. With old school hyper sync for sure but not with HSS. I only have cheap Godox strobes and shoot almost 100% of my outdoor shots with strobes. I do agree, using ND filters will be less stress on the strobes. I would need at least 6 stops if I shoot f2 with my GFX.
Thanks for sharing. You could always use a ND filter over the meter method.
Yes, I have the new Freewell V2 which isn’t bad for my Nikon but as good as it is, still not a huge fan of the rendering sometimes
I love the ND filter method over HSS any day. Absolutely love it.
Just did a shoot similar to this at golden hour and the wrong direction of the flash made most of the pictures look like a cheap AI collage... Lesson learned
Don’t beat yourself up! Without lessons learned we would never improve.
I think you're being too hard on yourself. Everyone has to take a couple of test photos at the beginning to see how things look. All of the rest of your pics after the test photos looked fine regardless of where the sun was coming from in relation to the strobe. You said it at the end (paraphrased), it doesn't matter what the technical flaws are with photos as long as the client is happy. It thus follows that happy clients are paying clients. Good job! Now, for the high-speed sync work-around, those are good notes to consider. I always find HSS a bit of a frig to set up anyway and would much rather use a different solution. Yours seems to work well.
Ever thought about a light meter instead of trial and error shots? The meter can save a lot of time. Just a thought.
I started in 1980 - I’ve used light meters for a lot of my career- with histograms I am good without one. I had one shot off and the rest were good. But I know many still use them very successfully for their work.
The hss comes with its problems. I’ve actually considered the Hasselblad route because of their leaf shutters. I’m hoping that the shutter tech in some the new cameras coming out will allow us to synch at higher speeds - manufacturers seem so hell bent on increasing FPS when higher synch speed would be so much more useful.
needs more background defocus
😂 would that be what your client would like? Remember, we shoot for our clients, they right our checks. She absolutely loved the images because they showed environment.