Outdoor Speedlight Portraits: Ep. 201: Digital Photography 1 on 1
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- Опубліковано 13 сер 2011
- This is the first episode of Season Two and that's why the numbers have changed from episode 75 to 201. There are no "missing" episodes between 75 and 201.
In this episode Mark shows you how you can control your speed light for some creative exposure options when shooting outside.
This video literally just changed my life. Understanding how the shutter and the f-stop control the exposure for ambient light and flash respectively is invaluable. Thank you, Mr. Wallace!
8:39 "...but the exposure on [Jade] is staying exactly the same..."
Except... it's doesn't, hahah
Full appreciation for the fact that this video was made in 2011, but as of 2012 (at least, if not sooner) Nikon also allows you to use exposure compensation on the ambient light independently from the subject exposure. (Yes, I'm a Nikon D600 owner, and no, I'm not flaming: just pointing out that things may have changed since this video was made.)
Still, great video, phenomenal model talent, and as always very pleased to watch all your videos.
I caught that as well lol
Dude's been sniffing glue!
yeah ..looks like the EC on canon globally affects both subject and ambient...
Actually, he did it wrong. Exposure compensation on a Canon affects the entire exposure (ambient and flash). To bump up exposure on the background and keep the flash correct he needed to add 1 stop of EC and select - 1 stop flash compensation.
One thing he demonstrated that I've said for years is that Canon's fill flash is vastly superior to Nikon's. The neutral settings fill flash (no exposure compensation or flash compensation) on the Nikon was ridiculously overexposed. The model was 2 stops overexposed! On the Canon it was perfect. When he ran through the Canon's flash compensation and reached +2 stops and you could clearly see the model was way overexposed - that was how the Nikon shot appeared without compensation. It has always been this way since the film days. I used to do weddings as a team with a Nikon shooter and he was always getting overexposed fill flash and it drove me nuts.
cooloox You're very right. That Nikon flash shot was way overexposed yet he called it a "great exposure." And when he toggled the regular EC the flash exposure quite obviously changed with the ambient exposure though he said it stayed the same. He used the same explanation that he used for the flash exposure compensation for the normal exposure compensation.
I have watched lot of videos but the way he is teaching and explaining everything is best. Mark always gets 💯 out of 💯. He is the best one.
What a great tutorial. I finally understood the two concepts that for a long time had me baffled. Thanks as always Mark.
One of the most simple and useful video on flash use for outdoor I have seen so far. Thanks a lot mate.
Man I have looked everywhere and DP 1 on 1 tutorials are THE BEST photography tutorials anywhere! Thanks MARK!
This is amazing. The holy grail of flash photography videos. Many thanks.
Finally someone was able to explain it to me so it's theoretically and practically clear. And it really works! Thanks a lot for it!
I come back to this video every now and then, for a quick recap when I forget. Great video Mark.
Glad you enjoyed it - it's on my list to update soon. So much has changed since this video was made.
It's great to see Jayd Lovely doing some mainstream modeling. I fully support her crossover efforts. She looks great in ALL her work (ahem!).
I must be old and happily married, no idea who she is and spent most of the video looking at the scenery behind Mark. Book my place in the nursing home.
WHOA!...this video is amazing...if you want your video over exposed, photos over exposed and to learn all the keys to not doing anything correctly! YES!
great video! very well explaind,and Jade is gorgeous!!
I really found this tutorial extremely helpful, and I always enjoy the comical segments in the end. Thanks so much for your photographical knowledge.
Thanks Mark. There was a lot of good stuff in that video and it taught me a lot.
Hello from 2017! Absolutely great video, explaining what I did need to know about the flash and how to control it. I wish I had seen this video 5 years ago...
I miss you Mark!!!!!! You thought me a lot back in a day!!!!!!!! Thank you!
Thanks Mark. Your videos are extremely helpful. Much appreciated mate.
Great! Thanks for the comparison of the different flash control methods of Canon and Nikon, that was very helpful for me :)
It' s all clear to me now. Thank you, Mr. Wallace.
This season starts great! This is an excellent video, Mark!
Jade is beautiful too...
Mark, man! This lesson was to my photography! I really got it for the first time! Thanks for being in depth yet simplistically clear! God bless! - Christopher from down in Brazil. ..
Christopher Soule I get it too really for the first time. Since the flash only flashes for perhaps 1/10000 of a second AND the background is not exposed, it doesn't matter what the camera shutter speed is. So shutter speed can't control the flash exposure.
I have been screwing up flash shots with expensive (pro) Canon gear for over a decade now. I've never fully-understood the relationship between exposure settings and how they individually relate to the background and subject during flash. Yeeeyup. This video is a great example as to why the crap we put with regarding all social media is still worth it. This truly puts things in order! And you damned right I subscribed! ;-D
This video helped me a lot. Thank you very much. You're the best.
had to watch this twice... first time just looked at Jade.. soo pretty!!!, but very good video. I am just starting out with flash photography and there is much to learn and this was very informative and well explained...
I have learned something very useful as i am venturing into low light photography.
Thanks for sharing.
you have made photography like a poetry ....... very magical way to understand colors of life and how to shoot with camera.... thanks for making DSLR use easy and fun............
Great presentation, as always I have watched this a couple of times and commend you on presentation, content, detailed information which is easily understood. A great way to go, bite off a manageable portion and present with references for more detail.
John - Indonesia
This is a very informative video. Thank you for sharing. Got some good tips
Excellent! I've learned something new having just bought a flash speedlite
Amazing video Mark!!
Very well explained!!!!👍
Thanks for the lesson. I just starting uses a Minolta Alpha 9 (film camera), and you have been a great help.
Great video. Simplified some concepts for me. 👍🏻👍🏻
Love your videos !!! Keep them coming!!!
You learn something new everyday! Thanks!!
This was an awesome demonstration!!!!!! Thank you!
Ohh this video is just SO great. Im just a beginner with my Canon D70, 2 speedlight flashes, and some lenses.. but watching this realy gave med a BIG push for going on and learn.. happy for my camera😄😄
you are the best teacher Mark.. no doubt .. thank you.. I just subscribed to you for all your videos
I believe barrybuttery's comment was pointing out that Mark COULD have dropped the ISO two stops to 200 and adjusted his shutter speed down two stops (to 1/500 sec) and achieved the same exposure with a slightly higher picture quality. Mark is a pro and he knows this. I'm sure he wasn't concerned about achieving the perfect final image quality since the point of the video was to show how the 2 exposures can be adjusted independently to achieve this effect.
Mark usually knows what he's about. I just think he made a mistake in his explanation of the regular exposure compensation and might not have caught the mistake before posting the vid. He's a pretty good teacher overall. Don't all get your panties in a bunch. Just look at some of his other vids.
Nice video, thanks. Jade is one charming person to work with. Well done both of you.
The model is amazingly beautiful. Great lesson too.
Well done, thanks Mark, I will go and practice that with my Canon today...
With the Canon example I don't really see the model staying the same exposure... Am I wrong?
Also for me
No, you are not mistaken... the model is horrible over exposed in one, good in another, and under exposed in another...
He used aperture priority mode (auto) with the Canon shots... unlike manual mode on the Nikon shots. And exposure readings were taken from different locations and averaged giving different readings. If he was a good photographer he would control the situation by using manual and high speed sync with the canon.
how he can shoot 1/3200 shuter speed when speedlight is on camera ? I have 80D and can not go over 1/250 !!!
@@KeepBelieving24 high speed snych enabled, check that
Your model is absolutely stunning!!:D
Canon 7D EV minus 2 image looks the best. Being a 7D and 7Dii owner the +/- EV and Fcomp I use a lot. Such an easy system to get results quickly.
Thanks for the video. I'm a little confused about the three comparison shots at 8:30. It seems to me that by changing the exposure compensation setting on the Canon camera also changed the exposures on pretty Jade and not staying the same as you mentioned. Please correct me if I missed out something. Thank you Mark.
ISO does affect the flash output too. Btw, Nikon does have flash compensation too.
I am a camera guy and I like M. Wallace's stuff. There is nothing wrong if a fellow photographer is commenting for technical accuracies. I like this video a lot because it's hitting on multi-levels ranging from On-Camera usage to How to Expose for flash usage outdoor. Mark has great videos. I always consult his videos as a starting learning point. But, if Mark appears to be somewhat inaccurate about some cameras; let it be said. That's what the Internet is all about. We don't know everything!
learned something new today. Very excited abt it. Thx
Nikon DSLRs have exposure/flash compensation aswell.
As do Sony cameras
nice video. what i was looking for when i searched using a speed light outdoor.
Thanks a lot Mark Wallace for this pretty cool video. I have tried it on my deck with a little statue and the technique worked as advertised. I did it exactly in Manual Mode by metering the background and I have kept varying my Shutter Speed up and down with my SB700 in TTL Mode and I got virtually the same results. Pretty cool!
I have also tried the white background 18% Gray...
Cheers!
Btw-I did not do the the FEC with my SB700 but I can accomplish it with the D300 just like the Canon can...
My nikon system caused me a good deal of trouble over the years. Thanks for talking about lighting.
that really helped me out a lot ! Thank you so much :)
Excellent work... I was waiting for your new videos; likely, here they are!!!! thanks
I'm falling in love with the model. Belíssima!!!
Extremely helpful. Thank you.
...BRILLIANT.....Thanks Mark.
Great video!! I've always been confused with all this flash stuff. Thanks :)
Somebody please teach him what overexposure is!!
That flash directly pointing at the subject is absolutely not correct
How would you use that speed light outdoors? How would you bounce it if you just had that?
@@Jgheiler If traveling with minimal gear, I would take a flashbender to produce softer light. The biggest problem here is that he over-exposed her on all of the first few flash-lit shots.
@@Jgheiler
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😂😂 Exactly!
Thanks for the video. I am trying to learn as much as I can about doing Head shots and all information is useful. I do prefer the style and work of Dylan Patrick and Peter Hurley that use 135mm to 200mm lens to get compress the background. Thanks for the info.
In your Canon example @ 8:28 you mention that exposure comp only changes the background. But those examples look like it has changed the flash exposure too?
Thanks for teaching a Kindergarten version for those of us just trying to get a handle on this stuff!
As a amateur photographer I'm curious to know why you use 800ISO when shooting outdoors on a rather sunny day?
Maybe he was using ADL, that is optimized for higher ISO settings.
It's a little too late, but I think its about shutter speed. Bust ISO so you can go up with shutter speed and have a nice background.
Because he is answering the guys question... how to use flash to overpower the sun.
He was controlling the background's exposure through shutter speed and had to compensate with higher iso for it. Don't think about the subject as the flash takes care of the exposure but rather expose the background properly to bring the subject and background both correctly exposed.
To overpower the bright sun
Question:
1- if you compensate camera exposure to -/+, do you go opposete with the flash exposure or same direction?
2- does flash exposure technically works on camera exposure or it is completely seperate?
Aperture also affects Jade exposure, but it's balanced with flash which doesn't hit background so thats why you can change it's exposure .
Great video Mark
Nikon was doing the Flash exposure compensation on the D200 10+ years ago
Jade is super gorgeous!!! Im in love!!😍😍
Wow, flashback showing up on the timeline, hard to believe this video is 11 years old now.
Jade is a sweetheart with a disarming smile. A charming model.
Great video, you explained what you did instead of just saying "Do this !".
Thanks, this is really helpful!
I think I watched this video like two ago. Didn't know what Mark was talking about. With stay-at-home order, I have been watching a lot of UA-cam photography with Gavin H. Learm a quite a bit, and understood pretty much Mark was talking about.
Jade is very photogenic!
Beautiful smile.
Well I learned something about my Canon cameras today which I didn't know about using AV mode, but hey I'm still learning. Thank you, glad I got a Canon now
GREAT INFO. thanks for sharing.
I think this is the best explanation I've seen and help by the examples. (Hmm Pritty sure Sony A7Riii and the A9ii can do similar to the Cannon ! 're exposure and flash compensation ) Ile have to try. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for the tip will be working on this technique
Love u so much Mark W...
Thumbs UP.
Great tutorial as always. Doesn't the Nikon have exposure compensation as well? You said that only the canon can do that. So I'm annoy confused.
It does. On D90 just hold the same button that releases the flash and turn control wheel. This will change flash exposure compensation.
Before adding the speedlight to the camera you metered on the background. After adding the speedlight did you continue to meter on the background, or did you meter on Jade?
Helpful tips, thank you!
Great video as always. The Sony A700 also has the ability to work exposure and flash comp individually also.
Mark is a fantastic Teacher! I'd love to be under his tutelage.
Thanks for the video, Woogie 👍
Excellent! Thanks.
man this guy is a good teacher.
Hi,
dope film!
Have a nice day :D
OH WOW... I just did it. Thank you Dario. Tomorrow time to shoot and test.
Umm.. yeah, the "Canon only" thing that makes it "unique" can also be done with Nikons. With either SB-600/700/800/900/910 on the camera, or even using the popup flash, you can control the scene's exposure compensation and the flash's exposure compensation separately.
With CLS/AWL you can do it with remote flashes too, just ask Joe McNally. :)
how he can shoot 1/3200 shuter speed when speedlight is on camera ? I have 80D and can not go over 1/250 !!!
@@KeepBelieving24 he's talking about a nikon in FP mode - you can use shutter speeds shorter than the 1/200 or 1/250 - so look for that HSS (high speed shutter sync) feature on your 80D. And your flash has to support it as well.
Very informative - many thanks
I truly cant believe that you have some dislikes. .....
Brilliant work.
there was so much LINGO in the video that by the end of the video i almost went bonkers !!!:))
On my Nikon D3300, and my Speedlight Flash, if shooting in manual, may I use the Flash Compensation adjustment to help control Ambient light?
great job Mark....
Great film! :-) Being a Canon 5d Mark III-user this was good news all the way!
Thank you!
Canonfreak:)
use manual mode and shoot at ISO 800 in mid day sunlight?
Thanks for the lessons, question for anyone, does the flash help reduce the noise from the ISO
I watch this over and over..... in what mode do you use to get the exposure before you put the flash