Can a Speedlight Do This? | LIVE with Gavin Hoey
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- The choice of lighting for studio portraits is wide and ever-changing. Studio flashes are a great choice, constant LED lights are getting ever better and brighter but the humble speedlight is not to be overlooked. But can a speedlight be as good as a studio flash or LED constant light?
In this live-streamed photo session, Gavin Hoey answers one of the most commonly asked questions… Can I use a speedlight and get the same results? More often than not the answer is yes, you can do amazing things with a Speedlight. But dig a little deeper and sometimes the choice of light will change how you approach a portrait session.
Gavin will squeeze as many real-world examples of replacing studio lighting with speedlights as he can into an hour. Join the conversation, get your questions answered live, and help steer the session… or just watch along and enjoy.
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THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING!
Gavin is such a comic. I am laughing out loud. Great stuff.
Thanks Tony, having fun is all part of the process in my book 😁
Okay, you just proved to me that two Speedlite it's simply enough for a beginner ❤. Thanks man!
Thanks Gavin your staff and Adorama for the fun and educational videos. 😊
We choose to use speedlights when we are at the event or have to move around a lot and then we use strobes if we know that we will be positioned or have someone model in one place or within reasonable area, without too much running around and movement from place to place. That is what we have been doing with wonderful outcome and success. Great live, might have to drop soon, but great information. Thank you Gavin.
what sort of stands do you use?
I'm still new to this. What's the difference between a Speedlite (Speedlight?) and a strobe?
I have a number of Godox V860ii and iiiC flashes and a round head Godox with magnetic rings for affixing gels and color discs for background lighting (all of this stuff thanks to Gav's video tutorials). Still learning it all. But recently have spent zero time in the "studio" or our spare bedroom due to mitigating factors.
@@mjpt57 The main difference is the weight and mobility. We used strobes, the more stationary big lights, one to hold and the other to take a photo, but those are usually bigger lights, we use those with modifiers, you can see some of them in our videos. Speedlight, whichever one you use, will be more versatile, lighter, easier to place on or off the camera, which also is a key, you can carry it with you on the camera. We used different ones, but recently got some that control our Westcott lights and flash as well, so it is a flash and a trigger for our strobes. I feel in the stable situation, when you don't need to move around, strobes are more powerful and better. We use between 1 to 4 depending on what we are looking to achieve. For headshots we use an overhead strobe with big modifier and it gives us great light for a headshot, for portraits, depending, we use 2 or even 3 of them with variety of modifiers. Take a look at some of our videos if you like to see them. Hope this helped a bit.
@@GoodyMorillas It is a Impact stands. hope this helps.
I read the question in the title & say who cares, It's Gavin, let's watch it anyway!! I know I'm guna learn something, laugh & all around be entertained.
Thanks for the support. Out of interest what subject would you have watched, regardless of the presenter?
@@GavinHoey my subjects are:
Photography
Videography
Lighting
Flashes
Gimbals
Lightroom
How in the world to get clients.
I'm bad at all of these no matter how much I try. But you do inspire me.
Apart from Gavin's nice demonstration capabilities, Chloe is such a charming, warm person, apart from being make up wizard and a beautiful model. Actually, I just watched your previous live, were somebody asked Chloe how photographer should communicate with model. So it was nice to hear a word from Chloe. Anyways, great work from all of you, pleasure to watch. Regards from Serbia...
very informative video Thanks Gavin.
Thanks John 👍
Thank You Gavin and All for a wonderful video
Great video as always!
I feel you on all that you say… I was fortunate to have been able to invest heavily into the Nikon Z bodies when they came out…Z6..6II…Z7…ZII…Z5..Zfc..Z50…Z9… the Z9 knocked them all out of the box…so I’ve traded my Z6..Z6II(w/battery grip) and Z5 … and will get the Z8… and probably the 85 1.2…no I’m not rolling in the dough… just retired for the 2nd time…last job Over the Road Truck driver(26 years) so I always wanted something to show for my hard work… so I’ve been blessed. Didn’t say all this to brag just sharing my path and love for Nikon..oh yes I have a bunch of Z Glass as well.. thanks for all your blessed.. thanks for your insights videos etc..
Possibly one of the best vids on this I have seen. Not that I do this sort of photography but am super interested.
Thanks Rob, really glad to hear it spiked your interest. I can't ask for more then that 😊
Great video. Many thanks to all.
❤Al sways a wonderful video I learned a lot thank you all
Superb presentation!
Thanks Les 👍
As always, an awesome tutorial on this subject. Keep them coming.
Will do Alonzo 👍
Hi Gavin.
An electric version of the background roller does exist... best thing I ever bought for the studio... my forearms thanked me. 🤣
Thanks Richard, there might have been a touch of super subtle sarcasm in there somewhere 😉
@GavinHoey who makes that Speedlight mount you demo at @39:00. I don't see it listed in the video description. I love the idea of a wind-on attachment collar rather than using the typical tightening knob for attaching the light stand.
Ok even though this is another long video, I like it more as its full of tips/lessons, and not a lot of time wasting on questions and "wait a minute"
Really great thanks ❤
Excellent, thank you!
Wow its great
This is really helping me figure out whether I want to actually buy something like an AD200 vs the bargain Neewer SK300's I have (I think those are Godox?). I got them thinking mains-powered monolights would be less fuss than speedlights and batteries, and it turns out it's nearly impossible to get LITTLE ENOUGH light in my relatively close basement, so I'm taking pictures at like F/14 on my m43 camera and seeing diffraction softness and such.
That light strainer is pretty cool, it gives a similar light pattern on the BG as you would get with a much more expensive optical snoot and gobo.
Nice break up of a plain background.
All joking aside, the Light Strainer punch well above it's weight on a regular basis around here!
Muchas gracias.
For 'less light' I'm enjoying the Godox TT350.
I always use the Godox ad600 with the 65in shoot through umbrella at events like birthday parties cake cutting for group shots and a speedlite on camera for dance floor shots
As nerve wracking as it must be for Gavin , it's great to see that all the momentary stumbles , memory lapses etc that we all experience during shoots are perfectly normal - even for a photo god like Mr Hoey . My personal one is putting my camera down ... and losing it
hi, what was the speedlight adapter that you used with the Handle? i can't see it in the list
Just a tip when using those LED, turn them down to minimum (5% or 10% power) before packing them away. I'm filming stuff in slow-motion and use 3 or 4 300W LEDs. Usually I film at 100% power. Sunglasses are mandatory at that level. You don't want to accidentally blast them at you at 100% when turning on if you are not prepared for this.
That's a top tip that I'm totally adding to my collection of other peoples top tips that I'll use from now on 😉 Thank you.
thanks
Flashpoint Zoom Li-on X Round Speedlight(Godox V1) is 76w.
Will the Flashpoint XPLOR 300 Pro TTL R2 Battery-Powered Monolight
Work with the godox x2t trigger?
In the US you get a Brooklyn Light Strainer. Where do you get the British Light Strainer?
Adorama could offer a package deal bundling the Light Strainer with the Paniel and the Brooklyn Reflector. ;-)
Hello From Nepal kathmandu
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Rafal Wegiel uses a 39 inch softbox with his nikon speedlights...and he does pro work.
Put a cane-topper on the end of the umbrella shaft. It could prevent it poking your eye out and stop it being literally a pain in the neck.
Why not put a bowens mount quick connect ring on the light strainer?
My wife has "Red Heads" for her video work. But they're halogens and waaaay out of date. She got them super cheap not knowing that they were to be replaced by LEDs (she was getting into the game at the time).
How would they go in lieu of Speedlites, or in addition to Speedlites?
A smoother upgrade path would be continuous LED like the Nanlite FS lights I used at 17:35 But if flash is the goal then a speedlight packs a punch of light and could quite possibly match the power of some halogen lights. Also consider a basic flash starter kit like the Blaz300 3 flash kit I used in last months live stream ua-cam.com/users/livewm5oXz_RJV8?feature=share&t=298
@@GavinHoey thanks mate. Will have a closer look. I wonder how much of your gear is available here in Oz.
@@mjpt57 A week late with this, but having looked for things the lovely Mr. Hoey has mentioned in the past, check for alternate names. The Flashpoint Blaz300 is sold as the Godox MS300 here in Australia and the Xplor 200, 300 etc, go by Godox AD200, AD300 etc.
The Neewer brand (yes, double "e") often seem like exact replicas of Godox/Flashpoint, but as someone only able to afford Neewer stuff, be sure to check the specs before buying. I'm an absolute novice, so cheap and cheerful homebrand versions work for me, but you're going to miss some of the things you might think are mere bells and whistles around about five minutes after you start using them. For infrequent, indoor use and learning on a budget, most of the Neewer strobes, softboxes and umbrellas are perfect. Beyond that, many of their items start to reveal themselves as a false economy.
Apologies, I'm a wordy little thing, I do hope at least something I've written has been of some help though! 😁
Do you ever do shoots with multiple people, how would you set up your lighting for that?
It's a common question and my rather unexciting reply is... the bigger the group, the flatter the light. So basically 53:10
Mansfield, Arkansas
How about doing something totaly diferent Gavin?
I know you're a portrait photographer/ambassador but you've already done some ...................... astrophotography. Some night photography or astrophotography would be very very interresting to see and learn from you:
This this as a chalange .... you learn ... we learn a lot.
😉👍
you have an audience from Iowa
Chloe is the most beautiful model
If Rafal Wegiel can do his wonder work with two or 3 speedlights, well then,
Nice! Only thing, ambient light that way produces raccoon eyes on you
@Gavin has your smoke machine broken? Haven’t seen it used in a video in ages… 😢
Hi Terry. Don't you worry, the smoke machine will make an epic come back in a future Adorama TV video. Trust me, it's worth the wait!
BTW, it's ik-ee-a, not eye-key-a. Leastways, that's how they pronounce it. 😉
Chloe looks like a Miss Universe.
Is it just me that thinks this video is sped up?