Flash Photography Tutorial : Using Multiple Strobes
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
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Flash Photography Tutorial
This series of videos is designed to help off-camera flash beginners quickly advance to lighting with purpose. First, this series assumes you have an understanding of the exposure triangle, and are capable of controlling your camera in Manual mode. While it's possible to use flash with semi-automatic modes, I think it's a requirement to understand lighting in manual mode if you want to take control of all aspects of your images. This series is broken down into short, easy-to-digest lessons that progress you from balancing a single light, to using multiple lights outdoors to drive home the story in your image.
In this video, we go through how thinking of each light as an independent layer can help you see the purpose of multiple lights in a setup. Additionally, we show how using a light meter can help create a more accurate image.
- SERIES PLAYLIST LINK
• Off Camera Flash Photo...
-SERIES VIDEO LIST
Balancing Flash Exposure : • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Balancing Flash Exposure Outdoors: • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Light Modifier Selection: • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Quality of Light: • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Direction of Light: • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Using Quality and Direction to Control Light Patterns: • Off Camera Flash Photo...
Using Color Correction Gels: • Flash Photography Tuto...
Light Meter Basics : • Light Meter Tutorial P...
Balancing Multiple Lights: You are here
Matching Fluorescent Lights with color correction gels: • Flash Photography Tuto...
Inverse Color effects with color correction gels: • Flash Photography Tuto...
Bringing it All Together Outside: • Outdoor Flash Photogra...
u r an amazing teacher, i wish someone teach me as simple you teach 10 years ago
very simple & clear explanations on how to use 4 lights setup. Thank you Rob.
One thing I would like to add is that once you are creating images to your liking taking a recording a light meter reading on all lights will allow you to repeat the exact same look in minutes at some point in the future or at another location.
Great video as always Robert!
Yup, and important your "Settings-records" start early, so you can modify them as things change. I've just moved across to strobes I'm trying to tame six of them and really don't know quite where to start, and I certainly want a record of everything from the ISO and aperture, to whatever the strobe settings prove to be. Working with male athletes the truth is while they get hundreds of happy-snaps, they usually only get one decent shoot if any?...
The value of the light meter is clear.
Yes, it takes the place of a $50 cable connected to your PC, and only does it for more money.
Great video, man! I honestly do experience quite a bit of underexposed images because I use Sunny Weather brightness on my camera. The image looks fine on my camera, but when I bring it up on my computer it's darker. Using a light meter would definitely help.
That bright screen mode kills me. I understand it's usefulness when outside in really bright conditions but it throws me off so much that I just revert to histogram or looking in the EVF instead.
Wow....thanks Francisco .....great tip to look out for..... never thought of that one...I use the bright screen setting on my camera too.
Sunny Weather is very clearly an 'overclock' of the back LCD at the expense of accuracy. What it does to any tone vaguely close to a highlight is off I have actually turned a client off showing them back of the camera and had to win them back with the viewfinder. :D I almost never leave +2 and doublecheck with the viewfinder on the off chance I do make it to Sunny. However, I will contend that I live in the midwest and can likely get away with that more often than Francisco can.
Thanks a lot Robert!! great video!!! Really learning a whole lot with these series!
Great series; enjoying it very much 🍿.
I like that you keep the "tiny mishaps" in the video to mentalize us that it is part of the experience.
Thanks man 🤘🏻
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Very useful This video sir, , big thank you sir R.MANOHAR ,Chennai.India
A top notch instructional video thanks Robert. Let's hope Sekonic starts supporting Godox in the future.
great
This was a real treat Robert. Learned more on ratios using a light meter.
Very well done, Robert. Clearly and efficiently explained. I've seen videos that took 30 minutes or more to explain a 4 light setup and were far more difficult to follow.
A well presented and easy to understand video.
Thank You!
Great stuff as usual Robert....really looking forward to what's coming next...GELS.
Really enjoying this series of videos. I’m impressed with your maths skills! 🤓
I was really struggling with dialing in 3 lights, thanks for this really simple breakdown.
Really, really useful Robert.
Many thanks.
Going through your flash tutorials. You're a terrific teacher, keep up the good work! p. s. Loved the little inserts of humour (background light :D).
What I just witnessed blew my brain
Thanks man
Great tutorial! I'm looking forward to putting this tip to use. Thanks
Excellent Rob 😉
Nice job Robert.
I'll be home next month (Oct 17th to the 21st).
Thanks for this an amazing video.
thanks dawg
what a great video it helps a lot , thank you!
Fantastic
As always good and informative video 👌I noticed that you didn't introduce your model 🙂
Very nice..Sir👍
Great video
Hi Bobert, very very nice tutorial and they are all very beginner-friendly. I am a videography hobbyist and trying to shift more to photography. Lately, I started learning lighting knowledge but found different lights and knowledge could be overwhelming. Do you have a video introducing all different photography lights? (flash, strobe, on-cam, off-cam, etc.)? If not, could you please make one? I think that may be very useful for a lot of new bees like me.
You can use his techniques in the video for any combinations of flash/strobe equipment. If you use lighting, most meters also have an ambient mode.
What Kelvin temperature do you set your camera with? Thanks Robert - you are awesome.
Thank you Robert for the info on how to set multiple lights without a meter and with metering. What spot meter would you recommend? I did not see the one on the list of equipment used. Thanks Adorama for supporting Robert's Videos!
For a bargain meter I would suggest an L-308 (any of them). The one I use in the video is a Sekonic L-858d-u, which is Sekonic's flagship meter and includes a lot of advanced features such as flash durations and HSS recording.
@@robhallphoto Is it only the L-858d-u that can trigger the flash for the readout wirelessly? I use a flash sync cable with my L-308
Thanks. Can you make a video about tethering system? Wireless or wired.
nice
Hi love ur videos, do you have any videos that concentrate on using ttl in studio doing portraits?(using multi lights in TTL) I assume u can't because they would all give a false reading. Thanks in advance
Are the four strobes the same brand?
Great video... As always.
One question though - why did you meter at the wall and not at forinstance behind the model?
When you meter individual light sources (incident metering), you need to retract the dome of the light meter.
Not true in all circumstances, otherwise a low-end meter would be useless. While I'd agree you want to retract if you have competing light sources that can influence the results (like exposing for a flash +2/3 stop over ambient conditions), that's not the case inside our studio, which was demonstrated to be pitch black with the camera settings.
@@robhallphoto The question is not whether ambient light influences your metering results -- the pitch black frame only shows that there is no ambient light contribution -- the question is how much the other light sources (strobes) are contaminating the metering result. If you don't retract the dome, you need to shut off all other strobes for each measurement. It is easier to leave them all turned on and just properly focus on one light source during light metering.
@@tkimaginestudio All lights not being metered were turned off. And doing so is incredibly easy with the trigger used.
@@opx4real Not "incredibly easy" unless you are using the Flashpoint R2 Pro version. The standard Godox Xpro makes you press group buttons and the mode button and requires cycling through off, TTL, and manual. It is way easier to always fire all lights and just use the light meter as designed. That's why the dome is retractable.
I have a Godox V1-C speedlight. In weddings, I would like to keep it on the camera and use another speedlight slave to light the room, what slave would you suggest ?
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I never could use the fourth flash (D) If I want to use it I need to group it or use as optical slave, what I’m doing wrong 🤦🏻♂️
i get confused when you say f8 and f5 i just wish you would mention the actual numbers on the light or do a video explaining that
You can't use the numbers on the light as a reference for multiple lights as the distance, light, and modifier both change their relationship between one another. It's completely irrelevant as soon as you change settings, mods or light position.
Watch either of my videos on stops of light to get more familiar with the concept of Fstops as a method for quantifying light output.
Quick question how do you ser your 4 lights together? I mean sync them thx
all of my lights are Godox X series, which means they all have built in receivers, that when I put a Godox X series transmitter on top of my camera, they all sync.
If your lighting equipment doesn't have built in receivers you can connect external receivers to them, but you may not have control of the power output depending on the system.
robert! thx forvids. May I ask you something? I'm trying to use AD200 with 120cm para softbox in inside situation. Would it be fine or 200w is way weak for 120m softbox? I'm new to flash light. Thank you!
Thanks you Robert always great video , I take the opportunity to know if you can give me your opinion or can be a day make a presentation on the Neewer Vision5 400 TTL (Visico5 / Strablitz 400 TTL is the same product with different name as with Godox and Flashpoint) Thank you
They look ok, good specs for the $, but I'm hard pressed to make a budget suggestion these days against Godox just because they have so much adaptability and a larger system than options like the Vision5.
How do you cut the lights off individually?
turn off the groups of lights you don't want to use.
Great explanation on ratios using the meter.
However I noticed that the model moved forward while you were metering the background which will now throw off key,fill, and rim light.
Maybe not enough but it’s something we should be conscious .
Cheers
Sir if someone have no lightmeter then what he will do?
The same thing I did before I used the lightmeter. Go off the screen. Use your histogram. Tether. Whatever you can to ensure your image is to your tastes.
If i can't afford light meter so what should i do
The same thing I did without a light meter
You can get older meters that work just fine on Ebay or Craigslist, like the older analog ones. Look for the older and very reliable Minolta F4 if you can scrounge a few more bucks.
you have dust on the sensor
Great eye. Hope you were still able to finish the video!
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