I bought a basic light meter. It helps a lot. I really liked your work discipline phrase. Accomplishing something is not that important, what holds more importance is how you do it, your approach. There is so much to learn and learned individuals like you who are ready to share their knowledge and experiences are a blessing. Regards.
Such great advice! I bought two light meters that I walked around with before I ever got a DSLR, and still have more meters (3) than camera bodies (2). When you meter, and therefore know, the ratios between lights and shadows you can begin to collect recipes and then accurately REPEAT them again in the future. It sure beats guessing all over again each and every time. I know so many people that want to just look at their LCD screen or tethered screen and then just guess their way to a pleasing picture. What I say is this, lighting ratios do EXIST whether you want to acknowledge their existence or not. It is like gravity. You may not want to acknowledge gravity, but it DOES exist. If you do not think so then just.... jump. And then see what happens. So with lighting ratios, they always exist. Why not then make use of instruments to record those ratios so that you know what they are? Why not? They are there. Record them so that you can repeat them. Oh, well. Some people are just not interested, I guess. If you ever want to send your "old" 758 meter to a good home.... I know an address. :-)
Wilson Newman 😅👍 Thank you very much Sir for adding all those points which I seems to have missed. You also have explained it very beautifully! Would you like to write Blogs for us? Our website is getting ready. Will wait for your reply 🙏 😊
PIXEL VIILAGE Thank you for the compliment, and your service to the photography community. I sent an email to the contact email on this UA-cam channel. Thank you!
Wilson Newman Thank you Sir... Just got back home after being on the road for a week. Will be in the studio tomorrow. Will check and revert. Thank you again... 🙏 😊
Invaluable knowledge shared here. My first light meter was the Sekonic L-758D and I have now upgraded to the L-858D. One of the best investments in photography gear I have ever made. Great for flash photography and a great edition to my landscape too. Thanks for the video.
Excellent educator and one of the best videos on the actual use of a flash meter. The computer / histogram instant results and photos are invaluable for seeing the results. Very well done - Thank you!
I have the same meter you used, except with the -U at the end, and it has been sitting unused because I have no idea how to use it. This is the first video that offers some insight into it, so thank you.
Guruji, Simplest explanation by you is a true testimony of how much command and control you possess. You make light obey as you want. I am following your lessons. Thanks.
I have used a meter for 6 years now and it is helpful just to get the understanding of how much light is coming from a certain direction. If you got reflectors which can't be moved, it gives by time a better view of the situation and what to do. Learning by doing is the only way to get the tech in place. Then, you can focus on the real work - the photo.
Do you need a flash meter? Well the question should be do you need eyes to see? Flash meter is a photographer's eye by which they starts capturing the world as per their visualization. Informative video for those who struggle why their images do not have that punch as compared to selected few whom they idealize.
@@LennyCooke636 Really!!! WOW!!!! I thought about buying me another one. I have the Sekonic L-878D-U like he is using here. I thought about buying the Sekonic L-308X-U FLASHMATE Light Meter. Replace my old L-308S-U with the L-308X-U FLASHMATE Light Meter
That explains a lot in detail at least for an amateur like me. This is the eye of a photographer. Really informative ! Thanks Pixel village , this is really an eye opener. Keep going !
Fantastic sir, I had been waiting for years for this kind of well narrated video about using Flash meters, and practically showing how it is used in a studio. Thanks a ton.
I have to agree with Simon Matthews. Fantastic tutorial. Very well paced, explanations given with the examples, good reviewing and descriptions. I'm a new subscriber as well as just 'liking' the video itself. Thanks enormously for your time and patience.
Love all your videos and so when I got my new Sekonic light meter I cam here first. I was watching then at 3:20 it kind of sounded like you were politely saying "okay" to your model and caught me off guard and made me laugh! Thanks for that too!
Thank a lot for unreeling the mystery behind this small wonder gadget. Have always wondered and was behind to know more about this gadget, searching online, but, happy now I am to come across the right content which explains what I just needed. Thanks again. Eagerly awaiting the next video on features. Will have one for the next Wedding Season (August). Motorbikes mean nothing for a passionate shooter 😎
Man.....! This is the second video of yours i was watching, as it was in the description of one your latest videos and I really like the way you explain things so clearly. I work for TSP, UK on P&O cruise lines and surely your videos are gonna teach me a lot. Your video are already been shared to my company among our group as it would very helpful for all of us. Keep doing this wonder full work. And i did buy a light meter instead of the bike.. ..Thank you
it’s not hard. Mainly you need to meter for your subject and lock it down in camera for that reading. The rest is just filling in additional lights for fill or highlights. Fill lights will mostly be a stop down or two from your main reading depending how dark you want your shadows to be. Your highlights will always be a 1-2 stops higher than your main reading. that’s all.
You may not be able to make good money out of these videos, but pls don't stop doing these videos. It will help ammature and enthusiastic photographers like me
Am working in film industry as apprentice nobody in the department answerd to my question about why light meter is used. I learnt from your video and am satisfied.
Sir this video is useful for professional & commercial photographers . pls cover your vast majority of viewers also who lack such equipments & accessories. Give some tips on wildlife & street photography also. Although youtube has all sorts of tutorials on almost every issue. I like your tutorials as they are informative & useful.
You can use a lot more cheaper gear with almost the same efficiency. Buy a some YongNuo flashlights, some lightstands, some umbrellas and you're in. As a flashmeter you don't need the latest and fancy 858-series. For incident light/flashlight metering you will be satisfied with much cheaper 308-series model from Sekonic.
One thing i couldn't understand, if you have continuous light and flash light both in softbox? Can we get aperture value like camera of the ambient light, be it natural of any continuous light?
Excellent ! For a long time, i haven't find any experts in Nikon like you. Your products are very informative and useful. I have difficulty in filmming because nikon's focus on filming quite bad . Hope someday you will make tutorial making film with Nikon
Thanks for such a wonderful tutorial, this made me to purchase a sekonic l-308x flashmate. Got a quick question, how to ensure the light meter is calibrated to my camera. Thanks in advance.
Hi sir when we shoot a video it will look different in different phone screens. So does light meter gives a standard quality and colour for every screen in different phone screens???
Good job, Can you explain or make a video on How to tether a light meter with different lights like elinchrom, profoto, broncolor with using remote and without using remote, Thanks.
Hello from land of Yousuf Karsh -Canada. I must compliment on you making these video tutorials, you are indeed a natural teacher and very talented, I admire how you are able to remove the chaff from real stuff. Do you have a photography school ? Anyway you have earned my subscription in no time , look forward to more interesting tutorials. I do have a naive question. In your given scenario if ISO and Shutter Speed are constant (and so is the distance of Key /Fill light) and if your Key light gives you F11 for proper exposure, then for Fill if the reading is F5.6 ....you have basically opened the aperture 2 stops, which means 4 times more light is being allowed, then wont the Fill side be now overexposed. What am I missing and misunderstanding ? God Bless....Thank You
The exposure effects the different skin colours right? Then will it be okay getting exposure from light meter will that be correct for different skin colours ?
A gift is always well accepted.But I am not very lucky and I am not good in write honey words.You already give me a gift with your videos and convincing me to get the AD600PRO and Nikon D850.Watching the videos I saw some gears in the studio like the P90H so I bought that too with no reviews but knowing You have good gears.I wait next lesson more than a gift.I am not Indian Kabir Bedi is my childhood pirate hero.
Thank You very much sir... for sharing your Knowledge and also most thankfull to the way you are explaining sir Please plan to make video about our indian wedding photography, equipment & Lighting setups used in different situations will be most helpfull to us...
No such rules. If you have a clear idea of the Aperture you 2ieh to work with, then after the first Test flash, you will know which direction to turn your flash power knob. 👍
Can you tell me how this will be useful in wedding events? One cannot go on metering different situation and lighting condition specially in case of candid shots? Throw some light on this please
OK, im still new at this Photography thing and slowly getting a grasp of f-stops and such. But you said you want your key light to be within 3 stops of the fill. but set the key light to F11 and the fill to F4 isn't that much more than three stops? Or am i misunderstanding something about stops?
If you use multiple lights in your portraits then learn to meter and understand the effect each light has on the subject with a light meter. Before your subject even sits for a portrait you can nail the exposure and look you are looking for and you and your subject will be stress free....no fiddling back and forth as you adjust your lights. The only thing I disagree with is the exposure for the accent or kicker light. A light coming from behind the subject is always brighter than the light towards the subject and the great Frank Crichio ( I'm old school) suggested that the exposure for that light be the same as the fill light. Too often I see the kicker light way too bright.
Thank you Sir... You are right. When you work with White Skin and Light coloured hair, that may be the case. But for Darker skin and Jet Black hair, a brighter light may be required. Perhaps I should have mentioned it! Thanks again for pointing it out.🙏
What makes the key light, the key light? I just assumed that the key light would be the brightest light but you said that the rim light has to brighter?
Key lights also called main light is not always brightest because it falls directly on Model..fill.light covers shadow And rim light covers the background and create a sepration of Model from background....
"Food for your thought" how about making a video for wedding/ceremonial functions using umbrella/soft box with the ideal reading for small/medium/large size halls.
Good evening everyone could tell me if this new model would be exactly the same as Sekonic 758 Cine because I'm looking to buy one I'm afraid to buy and then regret not having the same functions
I bought a basic light meter. It helps a lot. I really liked your work discipline phrase. Accomplishing something is not that important, what holds more importance is how you do it, your approach.
There is so much to learn and learned individuals like you who are ready to share their knowledge and experiences are a blessing.
Regards.
Such great advice! I bought two light meters that I walked around with before I ever got a DSLR, and still have more meters (3) than camera bodies (2).
When you meter, and therefore know, the ratios between lights and shadows you can begin to collect recipes and then accurately REPEAT them again in the future. It sure beats guessing all over again each and every time.
I know so many people that want to just look at their LCD screen or tethered screen and then just guess their way to a pleasing picture. What I say is this, lighting ratios do EXIST whether you want to acknowledge their existence or not. It is like gravity. You may not want to acknowledge gravity, but it DOES exist. If you do not think so then just.... jump. And then see what happens.
So with lighting ratios, they always exist. Why not then make use of instruments to record those ratios so that you know what they are? Why not? They are there. Record them so that you can repeat them.
Oh, well. Some people are just not interested, I guess.
If you ever want to send your "old" 758 meter to a good home.... I know an address. :-)
Wilson Newman 😅👍 Thank you very much Sir for adding all those points which I seems to have missed. You also have explained it very beautifully! Would you like to write Blogs for us? Our website is getting ready. Will wait for your reply 🙏 😊
PIXEL VIILAGE Thank you for the compliment, and your service to the photography community. I sent an email to the contact email on this UA-cam channel. Thank you!
Wilson Newman Thank you Sir... Just got back home after being on the road for a week. Will be in the studio tomorrow. Will check and revert. Thank you again... 🙏 😊
I am impresses by how stable and patient the model is. jokes apart, amazing video yet again
Invaluable knowledge shared here. My first light meter was the Sekonic L-758D and I have now upgraded to the L-858D. One of the best investments in photography gear I have ever made. Great for flash photography and a great edition to my landscape too. Thanks for the video.
👍
Excellent educator and one of the best videos on the actual use of a flash meter. The computer / histogram instant results and photos are invaluable for seeing the results. Very well done - Thank you!
🙏
You sir are a godsend for enthusiast photographers... Respect and Thank you !!!!
Somnath Chakraborty agreed
🙏🙏🙏
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I have the same meter you used, except with the -U at the end, and it has been sitting unused because I have no idea how to use it. This is the first video that offers some insight into it, so thank you.
that MOTORBIKE outro line!!!! YOU KILLED IT SIR!! HAHA... I am getting mine tomorrow {flashmeter that is}
Fantastic tutorial! You are a great teacher! I used to be a motorbiker, but now I want a light meter! Thank you! :-)
No-one ever died falling off a flashmeter.
Guruji, Simplest explanation by you is a true testimony of how much command and control you possess. You make light obey as you want. I am following your lessons. Thanks.
got to give it to the chap - i really love his presentation style. supremely easy to watch.
👍
I have used a meter for 6 years now and it is helpful just to get the understanding of how much light is coming from a certain direction. If you got reflectors which can't be moved, it gives by time a better view of the situation and what to do. Learning by doing is the only way to get the tech in place. Then, you can focus on the real work - the photo.
Finally I can learn a lot about how to use a flash meter.
Thank you for the tutorial video about flash meter.
Do you need a flash meter? Well the question should be do you need eyes to see? Flash meter is a photographer's eye by which they starts capturing the world as per their visualization. Informative video for those who struggle why their images do not have that punch as compared to selected few whom they idealize.
Ranjan Sharma Well said. 🙏 😊
I like the way you communicate. Nice. samjhanne ke lie bahut shukria!
Very good video. Do you need a flash meter? YES YOU DO!!! I believe all photographers should have a flash meter.
I got 4 meters !
@@LennyCooke636 Really!!! WOW!!!! I thought about buying me another one. I have the Sekonic L-878D-U like he is using here. I thought about buying the Sekonic L-308X-U FLASHMATE Light Meter. Replace my old L-308S-U with the L-308X-U FLASHMATE Light Meter
Such a great teacher. Thank you!
I love Pixal Village videos…such a nice man and great photographer!!!
🙏
That explains a lot in detail at least for an amateur like me. This is the eye of a photographer. Really informative ! Thanks Pixel village , this is really an eye opener. Keep going !
Great video. I went for a light meter tutorial, ended up learning how to light with three sources. Thank you for making this!
Happy to hear that 👍
Guruji Radha Krishnan🙏I bow down for your wisdom and sharing the knowledge.
You are very great Sir...Gurudev!
Fantastic sir, I had been waiting for years for this kind of well narrated video about using Flash meters, and practically showing how it is used in a studio. Thanks a ton.
🙏🙏🙏
ua-cam.com/video/9Q50mVWvnQ8/v-deo.html
I watched this all the way just because of the accent
:DDDDD
Very informative Rad, I use a flash meter but have not been doing it correctly, I have learned the correct way from you.
Many thank's Tony Leurs.
🙏🙏🙏
You’re a great teacher and I usually have hard time focusing with a teacher who has an Indian accent, not you Sir.
I have to agree with Simon Matthews. Fantastic tutorial. Very well paced, explanations given with the examples, good reviewing and descriptions.
I'm a new subscriber as well as just 'liking' the video itself.
Thanks enormously for your time and patience.
🙏
Thank you for teaching us in a nice easy way ⛩
Thank you for freely sharing valuable knowledge 🙏
Sir , i am your big fan from kerala . I whatch your videos consistently at any time as i love photography well .
Love all your videos and so when I got my new Sekonic light meter I cam here first. I was watching then at 3:20 it kind of sounded like you were politely saying "okay" to your model and caught me off guard and made me laugh! Thanks for that too!
Thank a lot for unreeling the mystery behind this small wonder gadget.
Have always wondered and was behind to know more about this gadget,
searching online, but, happy now I am to come across the right content
which explains what I just needed. Thanks again.
Eagerly awaiting the next video on features.
Will have one for the next Wedding Season (August).
Motorbikes mean nothing for a passionate shooter 😎
Kumar Mullackal 😁👌👍
hey thnks for the tuturiel. and i have a question is godox have a compatible ligthmeter i searched about didn t find anything
Man.....! This is the second video of yours i was watching, as it was in the description of one your latest videos and I really like the way you explain things so clearly. I work for TSP, UK on P&O cruise lines and surely your videos are gonna teach me a lot. Your video are already been shared to my company among our group as it would very helpful for all of us. Keep doing this wonder full work.
And i did buy a light meter instead of the bike.. ..Thank you
Happy to hear that 😊👍
Excellent explanation and usage example. 🙏🏻
I need to watch this 1000 times to understand this lool so much science with that thing
it’s not hard. Mainly you need to meter for your subject and lock it down in camera for that reading. The rest is just filling in additional lights for fill or highlights. Fill lights will mostly be a stop down or two from your main reading depending how dark you want your shadows to be. Your highlights will always be a 1-2 stops higher than your main reading. that’s all.
As always, best video / guide 👌👏👏
Wonderful explanation, thank you so much! I recommend this!
ua-cam.com/video/9Q50mVWvnQ8/v-deo.html
Great video. Have one question. How do you keep separate F value for different lights?
Very good explanation sir!!!
Thanks, great work! Perfect
Grazie per i tuoi video sono molto educativi, spero tanto di vedere anche un video outdoor con il sole. Un saluto dal Italia
love you man for making these kind of videos
You may not be able to make good money out of these videos, but pls don't stop doing these videos. It will help ammature and enthusiastic photographers like me
Am working in film industry as apprentice nobody in the department answerd to my question about why light meter is used. I learnt from your video and am satisfied.
Excellent demonstrations Sir
Well explained.. thank you sir
Every time I need something, You create a video on this exact matter at the same week :-) Amazing sir!
Sharon Leibel 😇 Happy to hear that 😊🙏
My pleasure
Thanks sir....
Sir this video is useful for professional & commercial photographers . pls cover your vast majority of viewers also who lack such equipments & accessories. Give some tips on wildlife & street photography also. Although youtube has all sorts of tutorials on almost every issue. I like your tutorials as they are informative & useful.
You can use a lot more cheaper gear with almost the same efficiency. Buy a some YongNuo flashlights, some lightstands, some umbrellas and you're in. As a flashmeter you don't need the latest and fancy 858-series. For incident light/flashlight metering you will be satisfied with much cheaper 308-series model from Sekonic.
Absolutely. 👍
AWESOME 👍👍👍
One thing i couldn't understand, if you have continuous light and flash light both in softbox?
Can we get aperture value like camera of the ambient light, be it natural of any continuous light?
Great teacher! I love your videos.
Sir very nice class super sir
your videos never disappoint
When are you going to go through the features of the Sekonic L-858D meter? You said in this video that you planned to do so. Thanks.
Excellent ! For a long time, i haven't find any experts in Nikon like you. Your products are very informative and useful. I have difficulty in filmming because nikon's focus on filming quite bad . Hope someday you will make tutorial making film with Nikon
very honoust information thank you
As usual great informative video.... Thank uuu Sir ..!!!
Sir aap photography guru great talent parsan great sir tq
The good news for me, thanks to this gentleman, is it looks like I only need to trigger one flash at a time with my old flash meter !
Hi Sir, may i know the shutter speed you were at?
Is it all your work in portrait photography? Nothing about landscape, cityscape or else?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge sir.
Thanks for such a wonderful tutorial, this made me to purchase a sekonic l-308x flashmate. Got a quick question, how to ensure the light meter is calibrated to my camera. Thanks in advance.
All videos are Superb.
A small Suggestion,
the second camera (Angle) is disturbing from main thing in your videos, I think the main camera is enough
Great advice
Is there any application to meter the flash. Thanks.
Really great video; information presented was clear, production value was high and presentation was enjoyable to watch! .. thank you. :-)
Hi sir when we shoot a video it will look different in different phone screens. So does light meter gives a standard quality and colour for every screen in different phone screens???
Good job, Can you explain or make a video on How to tether a light meter with different lights like elinchrom, profoto, broncolor with using remote and without using remote, Thanks.
It’s really...amazing.sir.
Hello from land of Yousuf Karsh -Canada. I must compliment on you making these video tutorials, you are indeed a natural teacher and very talented, I admire how you are able to remove the chaff from real stuff. Do you have a photography school ? Anyway you have earned my subscription in no time , look forward to more interesting tutorials.
I do have a naive question.
In your given scenario if ISO and Shutter Speed are constant (and so is the distance of Key /Fill light) and if your Key light gives you F11 for proper exposure, then for Fill if the reading is F5.6 ....you have basically opened the aperture 2 stops, which means 4 times more light is being allowed, then wont the Fill side be now overexposed. What am I missing and misunderstanding ? God Bless....Thank You
what software are you using on the computer to see the histogram?
Fantastic! Told me everything I needed
will sekonic speed master l-858d work with godox ad600 ?
Yes... though I suspect you are trying to ask a different question.
Sir will u plzz tell me that application used in the above video for photos editing purpose....
The exposure effects the different skin colours right? Then will it be okay getting exposure from light meter will that be correct for different skin colours ?
A gift is always well accepted.But I am not very lucky and I am not good in write honey words.You already give me a gift with your videos and convincing me to get the AD600PRO and Nikon D850.Watching the videos I saw some gears in the studio like the P90H so I bought that too with no reviews but knowing You have good gears.I wait next lesson more than a gift.I am not Indian Kabir Bedi is my childhood pirate hero.
Kabir Bedi 😂👌🙏
Great video. Do you have a link to buy that model?
Great
Thank You very much sir... for sharing your Knowledge and also most thankfull to the way you are explaining
sir Please plan to make video about our indian wedding photography, equipment & Lighting setups used in different situations will be most helpfull to us...
Useful video!. By the way, which camera did you use to record this video? Skin tone looks very awesome.
Is it not possible to manage with the histogram to keep within the dynamic range, if we dont mind more trial and error?
Of course. That's the best way. Do not blindly trust the what you see in the LCD.
Very informative. Always wondered what they did under model chins.
:-D
Than you, very useful. Question; with what power setting do you begin on you flashes/strobes. Full, half, etc.? Thanks again,
No such rules. If you have a clear idea of the Aperture you 2ieh to work with, then after the first Test flash, you will know which direction to turn your flash power knob. 👍
Can you tell me how this will be useful in wedding events? One cannot go on metering different situation and lighting condition specially in case of candid shots? Throw some light on this please
Nice tutorial
OK, im still new at this Photography thing and slowly getting a grasp of f-stops and such. But you said you want your key light to be within 3 stops of the fill. but set the key light to F11 and the fill to F4 isn't that much more than three stops? Or am i misunderstanding something about stops?
Ah, I see now... An aperture stop is not 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 but defined differently.
Hi Sir can u explain about the rest drone with an camera for a photography in an small amount of cost
Canon 70-200mm 2.8 vs Tamron g2 70- 200mm lens for Nikon who is the best
If you use multiple lights in your portraits then learn to meter and understand the effect each light has on the subject with a light meter. Before your subject even sits for a portrait you can nail the exposure and look you are looking for and you and your subject will be stress free....no fiddling back and forth as you adjust your lights. The only thing I disagree with is the exposure for the accent or kicker light. A light coming from behind the subject is always brighter than the light towards the subject and the great Frank Crichio ( I'm old school) suggested that the exposure for that light be the same as the fill light. Too often I see the kicker light way too bright.
Thank you Sir... You are right. When you work with White Skin and Light coloured hair, that may be the case. But for Darker skin and Jet Black hair, a brighter light may be required. Perhaps I should have mentioned it! Thanks again for pointing it out.🙏
Sir How Much Experience do you Have???? Amazing बहुत अछी जानकारी दे रहे हो.. Thank You..
great video great explanation
Αgree....
Sir! Would love to meet you in person...You are passionate about what you do... 👍
Nice one
Thank you. Sir.
What makes the key light, the key light? I just assumed that the key light would be the brightest light but you said that the rim light has to brighter?
Key lights also called main light is not always brightest because it falls directly on Model..fill.light covers shadow
And rim light covers the background and create a sepration of Model from background....
Ist the L-858D compatible with Godox e.g. the AD600Pro?
"Food for your thought" how about making a video for wedding/ceremonial functions using umbrella/soft box with the ideal reading for small/medium/large size halls.
ua-cam.com/video/9Q50mVWvnQ8/v-deo.html
Good evening everyone could tell me if this new model would be exactly the same as Sekonic 758 Cine because I'm looking to buy one I'm afraid to buy and then regret not having the same functions
great boss
Nice Job! Thank you
🙏🙏🙏
Great video
well explained