Let me know about your experiences with flash down below and if you enjoyed the video leave a like and all that jazz, thank you all so much for the constant support it truly means a lot ✨ For reference the flashes I used in this video are: www.godox.com/product-a/Lux-Junior.html www.godox.com/product-a/Lux-Senior.html
I am old enough to remember using those magnesium flash bulb, you had to wait after the flash before removing the bulb because they were so hot, it melted the plastic of the bulb. Also the light flash was so strong, as a subject if you were at close range, you would see white spot for a few seconds and felt disoriented, especially when I was still a young kid. TTL metering sure help reduced that feeling today
Oh wow that's insane but to be honest when I saw videos of people shooting with old flash lamps or flash powder even just watching them through a screen impressed me due to the amount of light so imagining it in real life must be quite a scene. Thank you for sharing your thoughts Nelson!
Another great video! I love how much research is done when you test new techniques! Flash photography is a scary thing but the look it produces is completely unique. I'll have to pick myself up a small flash and try to experiment with it!
Thank you so much Hunter, I like researching a bit before hand so I can have an idea about the technique but also flash photography as such an interesting history, really cool to learn these things, at least for me ahah I'm a bit of a nerd
I am enjoying the Lux Senior. Here are some of my modifications: I spray-painted the reflector white to increase softness & decrease edge light falloff. Next, I made a sleeve out of 1/4 CTO gel to slip over the flashtube resulting in warmer color rendition. ( the sleeve must be removed before closing the flash). I piggy-back 2 hot shoe mounts and connect them w. a 3ft, 3.5 mm cable for easy off-camera light positioning. (The CTO sleeve lives on the connecting cable when not in use). I hope these 'mods' are useful.
PS Just watched your "Why shoot film?" from 03-202 and almost everything you said about why you shoot film is exactly why I shoot digital. Fascinating, really, since it is all about the feeling of wonder and the learning and the fun. And the resulting images that stir us and those who enjoy our photography. Cool. Thank you.
I had a Kodak Instamatic 233 that used flashcubes back then and various Nikon & Canon flashes, Vivitar 283, 285 and 4600 (even had the bare bulb) as well. Although the flash I used often was the Metz CT hammerhead flash + external lead acid battery pack to keep up with my motor drives.
I only have the Lux Senior but absolutely love it! I hope they do an update with a swivel head at some point in the future, it'd be even better if you could deliberately bounce the light.
You always make great videos. I don't know why I feel that you should make films/movies. I did read some of your writing on your website. Anyways I would definitely try in near future to use flash on my landscape photos. I don't have the courage to do street photography with flash.
Hey Ashek, thank you so much for your comment, made my day, actually its been a dream of mine to one day be able to do it and hopefully the future will allow it, I appreciate it! And I think doing street with flash really depends on a lot of factors but you should try, you don't necessarily have to capture people but rather you can capture details, shapes etc and see what happens :)
Hey dude if you're a little afraid of flash on the street. I'd actually recommend trying it during the day. People don't notice flash as much during the sunlight and it can make your pics look super cool. Especially when shooting into the sun.
Once again you have put together an extraordinary, entertaining, and informative discussion. I really enjoyed your video footage of commercials featuring the use of flash cubes and bulbs. I remember my father using those to take photos of our family when we were growing up. Thank you so much for your creativity and hard work 😊
Hey Anthony, what a wonderful memory you have, I bet it must feel almost surreal remembering that given the amount of technology in today's world. Thank you so much for your feedback! :)
Great video! Flash photography will always remember me of 1993agosto a huge influence in art in general here in Brasil, all of his photos were shot with flash and that created a very distinctive look that already have a HUGE influence in a whole generation of photographers around here.
I couldn't find much when I googled his name but from the few pics I saw he definitely used flash which is pretty cool and I actually quite like the application of flash in portraits and such kind of like the 90s fashion photography, appreciate it and thank you for watching Henrique!
also, just thinking a little out of the box, in the early years, there was a limited asa range, ie 400/800 top, so to shoot indoors, at all, or under artificial lights inside buildings then the flash corrected not just this asa issue, but that of white balance of the daylight balanced negative stock, so colors came out true, and you COULD use colour indoors, not be restricted to B&W stock, and at a low asa ( the flash in effect PULLED the film up from 100 asa to 800 giving the exposure required for a good shot).
Coolisimo, as always. I am old enough to remember the Kodak flashcubes and Instamatics when they first came out, how much I wanted one as a youngster and teen but could not afford them. (My family did not own an Instamatic until the mid to late 70s and my parents rarely took photos of anything; I do not recall them having a camera once we were in the US.) To me, even now, flash photography evokes a sense of excitement, of being there-ness. Of grooviness. Of la dolce vita. My ongoing love of photography and its flashiness and ability to capture eventful moments of fun and pizzaz helps me understand the current love of sharing our zippy moments online constantly, though I rarely participate and when I do share, it is after using my new baby (Sony a7r3) and editing and processing my work. And most all my photography done in natural light. Most. Except on Halloween 2020 and 2021. And hopefully for this Halloween, too. In 2020, in the midst of the COVID lockdown, I went to the Castro and took photos Halloween night (a Saturday) with a rented Sony speedlight. I think I got some great photos of Halloweeners masked and unmasked, unabashedly celebrating in spite of COVID. There were not many celebrants, evidenced by how empty the background and spaces around the people I photographed are, but I had fun and love some of those images. They pop the way the folks I photographed popped. Same in 2021, though that night there were fewer folks out (it was a Sunday), yet I still got a few cool photos. This year Halloween falls on a Monday and I hope I can rent the same Sony speedlight and spend the day in SF, going to the Castro later and having fun with my camera. BTW, you mentioned we should be grateful for technical advances that make photography safer and easier and I soooo agree, since I am enjoying photography now because digital equipment makes it easy for me to focus on the subject matter and (almost) forget about the technical. Having tried analogue a couple of times, I know I am a digital photographer. Who knows what chemical misadventures I would live through if I tried developing my own film. I love this art form because I can practice digitally, as well as learn digitally (watching great content by you and a few other TH-cam photographers and online courses and articles and such) and connect with other photographers around the world digitally, too. But I get the romance of shooting film, the deep sense of satisfaction in working with it and the adventure of learning it. I get it because it is how I feel about digital photography. And speaking of my analogue years, I did use the on camera popup flash a few times way back then and recall a couple of photos that I actually liked and still remember. (Really, I only recall 2 B&W photos from my first 3-4 years analogue attempt.) But again, I never bothered to learn about this art form enough back then and lost the desire to keep shooting. I thought I could be Helmut Newton or Scavullo (funny to think that back then I didn't even know who Ansel Adams was) just because I was using am SLR with a pop flash and a zoom lens... OK. I rambled enough. Thank you so much for this video. Oh, and thank you for mentioning Herb Ritts, one of my favorite portrait photographers. I did not know he used flash photography. Thank you.
Great video! I don't usually shoot flash but a couple of years ago I was taking a trip and brought one along. It was a rechargeable one and I accidentally left the charging stand at home :(
Well I guess that's a good lesson to never forget it again, that's how I learned myself when I forgot filters and batteries and go out and about shooting ahahah
Hah! That took me back!! I took my first photos with a Box Brownie in the 1950s, and still have some somewhere. The first camera I owned, in the 60s, was an Instamatic with those flash cubes. I may have the camera in one of my boxes somewhere... Then a SunPak on my Praktica and now Speedlights on my Nikon film and digital cameras. I acquired a couple of umbrellas and stands as part of a bundle where I actually wanted some of the other stuff, so now I have to try out remote flashes in a studio environment. We have to keep learning... My preference has always been available light, but sometimes you just need that bit extra. Quite a journey - thanks for the memories T.
My preference I feel will always be available natural light but I have to admit it was fun doing this as I never had much experience before, really cool to read all your different set ups and I really agree with what you said about us having to keep learning, that's a wonderful motto, thank you for watching! :)
Once again, a timely subject. The last one was self-portraits for which you pushed me over the edge, and I printed a book from images made at an old farmhouse. In the last week the technique of flash photography has been on my mind to experiment with; we'll see what comes about this go around. Maybe combine self-portraits with flash?
The captions you put on-screen are typically far too small for me to read. My eyesight isn’t perfect yet it’s pretty good. The only way I’d be able to read the captions is to stop the video and zoom the screen. I was hoping you’d get right down to the nitty gritty of flash work - how & why to underexpose backgrounds and how many stops of underexposure are typically useful. Other than making us aware of the history of flash photography and its accomplished practitioners as well as the existence of the Godox retro products, I didn’t find anything here that will help me in my work. I have the Lux Senior, a Rolleicord and a C220 Mamiya. It’s my plan to use foreground flash on the subjects while simultaneously underexposing the backgrounds to subdue those and therefore draw attention the subject. I appreciate your enthusiasm, hard work and generosity. I’m grateful for your videos.
also Ms/Mrs Hopper, the flash was also just as much a way of capturing action, as a fill-in light, as if you research the old cameras, LF, MF they have a max shutter speed of 1/500th of a second, and 35mm cameras of 1/1000th unlike the 1/4000\1/8000 you have on todays dslr/mirrorless cameras; so this extra light quite litterally provided the extra stop of exposure, as well as the 'freezing' ability of the action (1/20,000th of a second), which the shutter speeds of the day could NOT, so this explains the 'surge' that you describe, as this freezing ability opened up far more genr`e of photography to the adverage person, that in previous years only the 'Pro' photographer could accomplish, with a fully equiped studio.
I still have trouble wrapping my head around flash. I think it’s a difficult tool to master. I love Francis Wolff’s use of flash though; it would be great to produce images like that one day. Being such a music fan, maybe you know his work too?
I tried using flash, once. But, I was arrested for indecent exposure!!😁😝🤣📸📸📸 Yep, good ol' flash cubes. Used them more often than once back in the day.
Nice video! and it's great to see Godox making retro looking flashes. Quick question here: does the lux senior work with the hotshoe on the non ttl classic M6?
Thank you so much Aston, as far I as was aware the flash works with a variety of different cameras from digital to film and comparing the plates of the cameras I’ve used these flashes on - m6, m7 and lumix s5 I would say it should work with the hotshot on the non ttl :)
Never been really interested in studio work but the Horst P. Horst at 3:21 had me pausing the video and searching on his work. It took me a while to get back to the video as the images he created are riveting.
Great video, very interesting. Good to see Godox supporting film photographers by making less sophisticated flashes that fit old(er) cameras. Must look into that...
I love the old style reflector on that flash. Flash is so daunting until you shoot it enough and realize it's pretty simple. I guess a lot of photography is like that ... As always, another good one!
That’s actually so true! I was really in doubt and not going to lie out of my comfort zone just felt unnatural but having said that I’m so glad I tried it out because it gives me the confidence to push myself forward by taking on other challenges :)
Great video! :) I remember trying to learn flash photography back in the 70’s-80’s and it wasn’t until I did my first electronic flash ‘studio’ shoots in the late 80’s early 90’s (I was fortunate enough to belong to a camera club that had ‘electronic’ studio flashes as not many did as they were, at that time, very expensive) that I finally ‘got it’ ;)
It had been a while since I did not watch one of your videos and I do not know why because everybody should just watch them for the generics and their music ! Keep going, great video, love your work.
When I was 11 or 12 years old, my father bought me a Kodak Instamatic 50 as a newyear present back in Tehran. It had a little flash attachment that I would mount on top of the camera and insert the bulb. That was my first experience of using flash. Decades later my first serious flashgun was a Vivitar 283 with a remote sensor and a manual attachment. Although I have a couple of Studio Pro systems from Bowens, I have not used any of them in years. I guess these days with the popularity of Digital cameras with iso zillions, the need for a flash is greatly reduced, although it can be a very creative tool in the right hands.
Hey! Thank you for your comment, really enjoyed reading about your memories and experiences, I feel the same just like you pointed out in these days it can be hard to see the use for a flash with so much technology around but I have to say in the right settings and right concept / aesthetics it can truly be a powerful tool :)
Hello, The work was wonderful, its a real treat to have felt so familiar with the short history of the Flash. Well done! The poses of your friend were super natural, really very good. The flash must be the biggest disappointment all exciting activities lose some stimulus as you start to work at the perfection, but none more than the flash or first time it half blinds someone and leaves amazing contrast but with practice is never used again, in quite the same way. Keep up the good work, I look forward to sharing with you in the future!
Hey Joe! Thank you so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it and let me say I actually learned a lot in this video not only about the history of flash but also about the importance of distance between flash and subject and just about other ways of using flash so that its not just that bright light half blinding everyone ahah thank you for watching! :)
Wonderful video Tatiana, I just recently purchased a Godox flash but not the ones you shown here, I primarily started to use it in my outdoor nature photos, it takes a bit of getting used to that's for sure. 🙂
Hey Rich thank you for watching, to be honest, it does take a bit to get used to it I think at first I wasn't calculating my distance (flash from subject) properly so I had to learn that in order to better apply it and honestly I enjoyed it. Have fun!
Let me know about your experiences with flash down below and if you enjoyed the video leave a like and all that jazz, thank you all so much for the constant support it truly means a lot ✨
For reference the flashes I used in this video are:
www.godox.com/product-a/Lux-Junior.html
www.godox.com/product-a/Lux-Senior.html
I am old enough to remember using those magnesium flash bulb, you had to wait after the flash before removing the bulb because they were so hot, it melted the plastic of the bulb. Also the light flash was so strong, as a subject if you were at close range, you would see white spot for a few seconds and felt disoriented, especially when I was still a young kid. TTL metering sure help reduced that feeling today
Oh wow that's insane but to be honest when I saw videos of people shooting with old flash lamps or flash powder even just watching them through a screen impressed me due to the amount of light so imagining it in real life must be quite a scene. Thank you for sharing your thoughts Nelson!
Another great video! I love how much research is done when you test new techniques! Flash photography is a scary thing but the look it produces is completely unique. I'll have to pick myself up a small flash and try to experiment with it!
Thank you so much Hunter, I like researching a bit before hand so I can have an idea about the technique but also flash photography as such an interesting history, really cool to learn these things, at least for me ahah I'm a bit of a nerd
You are so right, and those retro looking GoDox flashes really look interesting and tempting :)
Very nice video. Flash can open another whole realm in photography, be it studio or on camera flash.
Very true Ted!
I am enjoying the Lux Senior. Here are some of my modifications: I spray-painted the reflector white to increase softness & decrease edge light falloff. Next, I made a sleeve out of 1/4 CTO gel to slip over the flashtube resulting in warmer color rendition. ( the sleeve must be removed before closing the flash). I piggy-back 2 hot shoe mounts and connect them w. a 3ft, 3.5 mm cable for easy off-camera light positioning. (The CTO sleeve lives on the connecting cable when not in use). I hope these 'mods' are useful.
Hey fantastic vid. Those flashes are so cute I want both haha.
PS
Just watched your "Why shoot film?" from 03-202 and almost everything you said about why you shoot film is exactly why I shoot digital. Fascinating, really, since it is all about the feeling of wonder and the learning and the fun. And the resulting images that stir us and those who enjoy our photography.
Cool.
Thank you.
I had a Kodak Instamatic 233 that used flashcubes back then and various Nikon & Canon flashes, Vivitar 283, 285 and 4600 (even had the bare bulb) as well. Although the flash I used often was the Metz CT hammerhead flash + external lead acid battery pack to keep up with my motor drives.
I only have the Lux Senior but absolutely love it! I hope they do an update with a swivel head at some point in the future, it'd be even better if you could deliberately bounce the light.
You always make great videos. I don't know why I feel that you should make films/movies. I did read some of your writing on your website. Anyways I would definitely try in near future to use flash on my landscape photos. I don't have the courage to do street photography with flash.
I agree with you that it would be cool if she made a movie. I'd watch it
Hey Ashek, thank you so much for your comment, made my day, actually its been a dream of mine to one day be able to do it and hopefully the future will allow it, I appreciate it! And I think doing street with flash really depends on a lot of factors but you should try, you don't necessarily have to capture people but rather you can capture details, shapes etc and see what happens :)
@@lwandie260 Hey thank you so much ✨
Hey dude if you're a little afraid of flash on the street. I'd actually recommend trying it during the day. People don't notice flash as much during the sunlight and it can make your pics look super cool. Especially when shooting into the sun.
@@willstith1 Thanks William for the tip.
Great topic choice! Very informative! ✌️
Thank you so much 😊
Just started following you on Instagram, love your photography and videos. Great content, and you have a splendid accent as well!
Thank you so much! Really appreciate it :)
Fascinating!
Thank you !
felt like am sitting in the royal college of art taking lessons, great, keep it up 🤟
Wow thank you 🤍🤍 appreciate you!
Once again you have put together an extraordinary, entertaining, and informative discussion. I really enjoyed your video footage of commercials featuring the use of flash cubes and bulbs. I remember my father using those to take photos of our family when we were growing up.
Thank you so much for your creativity and hard work 😊
Hey Anthony, what a wonderful memory you have, I bet it must feel almost surreal remembering that given the amount of technology in today's world. Thank you so much for your feedback! :)
Great video! Flash photography will always remember me of 1993agosto a huge influence in art in general here in Brasil, all of his photos were shot with flash and that created a very distinctive look that already have a HUGE influence in a whole generation of photographers around here.
I couldn't find much when I googled his name but from the few pics I saw he definitely used flash which is pretty cool and I actually quite like the application of flash in portraits and such kind of like the 90s fashion photography, appreciate it and thank you for watching Henrique!
that advertisement for the flash cube at the beginning was so fun lol
Your videos are always inspirational, thank-you. I really like your choice of music too.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it, I love these types of beats - old garage 60s rock!
Great video. Thank you.
also, just thinking a little out of the box, in the early years, there was a limited asa range, ie 400/800 top, so to shoot indoors, at all, or under artificial lights inside buildings then the flash corrected not just this asa issue, but that of white balance of the daylight balanced negative stock, so colors came out true, and you COULD use colour indoors, not be restricted to B&W stock, and at a low asa ( the flash in effect PULLED the film up from 100 asa to 800 giving the exposure required for a good shot).
Coolisimo, as always.
I am old enough to remember the Kodak flashcubes and Instamatics when they first came out, how much I wanted one as a youngster and teen but could not afford them. (My family did not own an Instamatic until the mid to late 70s and my parents rarely took photos of anything; I do not recall them having a camera once we were in the US.) To me, even now, flash photography evokes a sense of excitement, of being there-ness. Of grooviness. Of la dolce vita. My ongoing love of photography and its flashiness and ability to capture eventful moments of fun and pizzaz helps me understand the current love of sharing our zippy moments online constantly, though I rarely participate and when I do share, it is after using my new baby (Sony a7r3) and editing and processing my work. And most all my photography done in natural light.
Most.
Except on Halloween 2020 and 2021. And hopefully for this Halloween, too. In 2020, in the midst of the COVID lockdown, I went to the Castro and took photos Halloween night (a Saturday) with a rented Sony speedlight. I think I got some great photos of Halloweeners masked and unmasked, unabashedly celebrating in spite of COVID. There were not many celebrants, evidenced by how empty the background and spaces around the people I photographed are, but I had fun and love some of those images. They pop the way the folks I photographed popped. Same in 2021, though that night there were fewer folks out (it was a Sunday), yet I still got a few cool photos. This year Halloween falls on a Monday and I hope I can rent the same Sony speedlight and spend the day in SF, going to the Castro later and having fun with my camera.
BTW, you mentioned we should be grateful for technical advances that make photography safer and easier and I soooo agree, since I am enjoying photography now because digital equipment makes it easy for me to focus on the subject matter and (almost) forget about the technical. Having tried analogue a couple of times, I know I am a digital photographer. Who knows what chemical misadventures I would live through if I tried developing my own film. I love this art form because I can practice digitally, as well as learn digitally (watching great content by you and a few other TH-cam photographers and online courses and articles and such) and connect with other photographers around the world digitally, too. But I get the romance of shooting film, the deep sense of satisfaction in working with it and the adventure of learning it. I get it because it is how I feel about digital photography.
And speaking of my analogue years, I did use the on camera popup flash a few times way back then and recall a couple of photos that I actually liked and still remember. (Really, I only recall 2 B&W photos from my first 3-4 years analogue attempt.) But again, I never bothered to learn about this art form enough back then and lost the desire to keep shooting. I thought I could be Helmut Newton or Scavullo (funny to think that back then I didn't even know who Ansel Adams was) just because I was using am SLR with a pop flash and a zoom lens...
OK. I rambled enough. Thank you so much for this video. Oh, and thank you for mentioning Herb Ritts, one of my favorite portrait photographers. I did not know he used flash photography.
Thank you.
Great video! I don't usually shoot flash but a couple of years ago I was taking a trip and brought one along. It was a rechargeable one and I accidentally left the charging stand at home :(
Well I guess that's a good lesson to never forget it again, that's how I learned myself when I forgot filters and batteries and go out and about shooting ahahah
Lux senior looks cracking - results look nice too :) thanks for making this Tatiana, it was cool to learn about the history of flash photography!
Thank you so much for watching Sathya I appreciate it :)
Hah! That took me back!! I took my first photos with a Box Brownie in the 1950s, and still have some somewhere. The first camera I owned, in the 60s, was an Instamatic with those flash cubes. I may have the camera in one of my boxes somewhere...
Then a SunPak on my Praktica and now Speedlights on my Nikon film and digital cameras.
I acquired a couple of umbrellas and stands as part of a bundle where I actually wanted some of the other stuff, so now I have to try out remote flashes in a studio environment. We have to keep learning...
My preference has always been available light, but sometimes you just need that bit extra.
Quite a journey - thanks for the memories T.
My preference I feel will always be available natural light but I have to admit it was fun doing this as I never had much experience before, really cool to read all your different set ups and I really agree with what you said about us having to keep learning, that's a wonderful motto, thank you for watching! :)
Ooooh laaa laaa a new T. Hopper video 😁
:)
Once again, a timely subject. The last one was self-portraits for which you pushed me over the edge, and I printed a book from images made at an old farmhouse. In the last week the technique of flash photography has been on my mind to experiment with; we'll see what comes about this go around. Maybe combine self-portraits with flash?
Hey Tod that's a really good idea, I think you should combine and see what happens, most importantly have fun and enjoy the process :)
3:46 love those dishes.
The captions you put on-screen are typically far too small for me to read. My eyesight isn’t perfect yet it’s pretty good. The only way I’d be able to read the captions is to stop the video and zoom the screen.
I was hoping you’d get right down to the nitty gritty of flash work - how & why to underexpose backgrounds and how many stops of underexposure are typically useful.
Other than making us aware of the history of flash photography and its accomplished practitioners as well as the existence of the Godox retro products, I didn’t find anything here that will help me in my work.
I have the Lux Senior, a Rolleicord and a C220 Mamiya. It’s my plan to use foreground flash on the subjects while simultaneously underexposing the backgrounds to subdue those and therefore draw attention the subject.
I appreciate your enthusiasm, hard work and generosity. I’m grateful for your videos.
also Ms/Mrs Hopper, the flash was also just as much a way of capturing action, as a fill-in light, as if you research the old cameras, LF, MF they have a max shutter speed of 1/500th of a second, and 35mm cameras of 1/1000th unlike the 1/4000\1/8000 you have on todays dslr/mirrorless cameras; so this extra light quite litterally provided the extra stop of exposure, as well as the 'freezing' ability of the action (1/20,000th of a second), which the shutter speeds of the day could NOT, so this explains the 'surge' that you describe, as this freezing ability opened up far more genr`e of photography to the adverage person, that in previous years only the 'Pro' photographer could accomplish, with a fully equiped studio.
I can remember using flash cubes on a Polaroid Instant camera. Yes, I am that old!!!
Oh that's amazing I saw a couple of photos of that sort of setup and I have to admit I was jealous ahah
I still have trouble wrapping my head around flash. I think it’s a difficult tool to master. I love Francis Wolff’s use of flash though; it would be great to produce images like that one day. Being such a music fan, maybe you know his work too?
I tried using flash, once. But, I was arrested for indecent exposure!!😁😝🤣📸📸📸 Yep, good ol' flash cubes. Used them more often than once back in the day.
😂😂😂 that’s a really good joke Carl and that’s so cool I’m kinda jealous over here eheh
Nice video! and it's great to see Godox making retro looking flashes.
Quick question here: does the lux senior work with the hotshoe on the non ttl classic M6?
Thank you so much Aston, as far I as was aware the flash works with a variety of different cameras from digital to film and comparing the plates of the cameras I’ve used these flashes on - m6, m7 and lumix s5 I would say it should work with the hotshot on the non ttl :)
Never been really interested in studio work but the Horst P. Horst at 3:21 had me pausing the video and searching on his work. It took me a while to get back to the video as the images he created are riveting.
Oh but his work is phenomenal, I'm definitely bringing him to the channel at some point I feel like we can all learn so much :)
Your Beautiful face and a very informative video.Thank you.
Thank you Rakesh!
@@TatianaHopper just wanted to know, if it could be possible to fit an umbrella before the flash in order to initiate a bounce effect.
Great video, very interesting. Good to see Godox supporting film photographers by making less sophisticated flashes that fit old(er) cameras. Must look into that...
Thank you for your comment Roger, glad you enjoyed the video :)
I love the old style reflector on that flash. Flash is so daunting until you shoot it enough and realize it's pretty simple. I guess a lot of photography is like that ... As always, another good one!
That’s actually so true! I was really in doubt and not going to lie out of my comfort zone just felt unnatural but having said that I’m so glad I tried it out because it gives me the confidence to push myself forward by taking on other challenges :)
Love to know your preferred settings using the Lux Senior with your Mamiya 7.
Oh noooooo you’re giving in to make ads now for the manufacturers…
Great video! :)
I remember trying to learn flash photography back in the 70’s-80’s and it wasn’t until I did my first electronic flash ‘studio’ shoots in the late 80’s early 90’s (I was fortunate enough to belong to a camera club that had ‘electronic’ studio flashes as not many did as they were, at that time, very expensive) that I finally ‘got it’ ;)
It had been a while since I did not watch one of your videos and I do not know why because everybody should just watch them for the generics and their music ! Keep going, great video, love your work.
When I was 11 or 12 years old, my father bought me a Kodak Instamatic 50 as a newyear present back in Tehran. It had a little flash attachment that I would mount on top of the camera and insert the bulb. That was my first experience of using flash. Decades later my first serious flashgun was a Vivitar 283 with a remote sensor and a manual attachment. Although I have a couple of Studio Pro systems from Bowens, I have not used any of them in years. I guess these days with the popularity of Digital cameras with iso zillions, the need for a flash is greatly reduced, although it can be a very creative tool in the right hands.
Hey! Thank you for your comment, really enjoyed reading about your memories and experiences, I feel the same just like you pointed out in these days it can be hard to see the use for a flash with so much technology around but I have to say in the right settings and right concept / aesthetics it can truly be a powerful tool :)
Hello, The work was wonderful, its a real treat to have felt so familiar with the short history of the Flash. Well done! The poses of your friend were super natural, really very good.
The flash must be the biggest disappointment all exciting activities lose some stimulus as you start to work at the perfection, but none more than the flash or first time it half blinds someone and leaves amazing contrast but with practice is never used again, in quite the same way.
Keep up the good work, I look forward to sharing with you in the future!
Hey Joe!
Thank you so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it and let me say I actually learned a lot in this video not only about the history of flash but also about the importance of distance between flash and subject and just about other ways of using flash so that its not just that bright light half blinding everyone ahah thank you for watching! :)
Wonderful video Tatiana, I just recently purchased a Godox flash but not the ones you shown here, I primarily started to use it in my outdoor nature photos, it takes a bit of getting used to that's for sure. 🙂
Hey Rich thank you for watching, to be honest, it does take a bit to get used to it I think at first I wasn't calculating my distance (flash from subject) properly so I had to learn that in order to better apply it and honestly I enjoyed it. Have fun!
Thanks for the memories at the beginning, oh and the great inspiration to use my Godox more!!!!!
That's great Terry, have fun and keep shooting :)
Wonder if you can turn the flash head towards the ceiling to use bounce flash?
No you can't use these specific ones as bounce flash :)
Your opening music is always fantastic, this one in particular!
Thank you so much!
Really, really enjoyed this one. Thank you!
Thank you so much for watching :)
Great video T. ! I love the Intro.
Thank you so much Stephen! :)