Shooting Portraits in Bright Sunlight with On-Camera Flash | Mark Wallace
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- In this episode, Mark Wallace shows you how to shoot beautiful portraits in a sunny environment. Mark uses a 5-in-1 reflector to create shade and a Flashpoint on-camera flash to separate the model from the background. This technique will allow you to shoot great portraits even in bad light. It's a trick that's simple to learn and powerful to use.
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0:00 Intro
0:33 Meet the model and assistant
0:49 The wrong way to shoot in bad light
1:31 Adding artificial shade for better portraits
2:20 On-Camera flash for better natural light portraits
3:12 Using high-speed sync in bright sunlight
4:00 Using Exposure Compensation to underexpose the ambient light
6:00 The steps for shooting in bright sunlight with on-camera flash
6:45 Sample photos from on-camera flash using high speed sync
7:24 Review and last thoughts
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The luxury of an assistant.
An alternative: go under a shade, obviously. Or have your subject turn their back against the sun if possible and blast away with the flash.
Sometimes Mark I feel you and the adorama team know exactly what I’m looking for, excited to watch this and add this to my learning playlist
I really appreciate your tutorials, Mark! Simple and easy to understand; it’s clear that you’re a true Pro.
Who's got it better than you! Traveling throughout South America capturing beautiful images. Enjoy Medallo, La ciudad de la eterna primavera 🌻
if you are in TTL on Flash and not enough light, change flash to manual and adjust that, it will significantly increase the flash power independent of camera partly controlling the output also.
Then, if you set ambient on camera in manual, the chosen flash setting will always stay the same, and when changing shutter to control the ambient it does not affect flash at all.
Some flashes themselves have +/- compensation in TTL, that can also increase your output. But I prefer manual and no matter if I change ambient background via Shutter, you get perfect results each, every time.
This video, as a succinct tutorial (or introduction to "purposes of High Speed Sync") deserves an AWARD. The old-fashioned use of neutral density filters, and slow shutter, deserved an honorable (dishonorable?) mention, however. ;)
This was an excellent demonstration. Exactly what I was looking for.
Wow what a backdrop, beautiful 😮
This is absolutely fantastic, and I wish I had known this a week ago! :)
Mark. Great info and demo as usual. Thanks for sharing.
Another great video from Mark.
As soon as I saw the preview of this video i knew it was filmed in Colombia! So nice to see Adorama in other countries
What a great video. Brilliant seeing this in a video than everyone talking about shooting in sunlight. 5 star video. Thank you
Great job, Mark. Cheers.
❤ good idea
Excellent, Mark! Thank you.
You guys are great and make everything so easy to learn!
Awesome!!! Love it
Really helpful, Mark. I'm a complete novice with flash. Thanks
I used my Flashpoint R2 Pro II Speedlight (from @Adorama) last week to get some great outdoor indirect light portrait shots. Except I added the diffusion dome from the accessory kit. As always, great instruction from Mark Wallace!
great video as always with Mark !
I was waiting for the moment Mark surprises us with the fact that all those pop-up reflectors have a super nice diffusing layer inside when you unzip the outer cover. With the inside diffusing layer it's possible to achieve an extremely nice soft light look by holding it right above the model's head creating a super soft light on the skin of the model and allowing to shoot with fast shutter speed wide open, I mean really wide open like f1.2 and not "Mark Wallace f5.6 wide open". Honestly Mark, you really should have pointed that out to all the people who are interested in learning something really useful without making people think they can use a $10 reflector but need a $1000 on camera flash to fill the darkness you create with that very same reflector.
Mark has several videos in which he does what you're suggesting. This is just another way to take pictures in this kind of horrible light.
A flash is not that expensive.
Great job on the videos. Thank you Mark and Adorama for great content.
Great tutorial! Thank you! 🙏
Very useful tips! ❤
Model expressions are nice
COVID-19 Advantage: Mark, my favorite instructor, is doing a lot of videos.
Great Video!
Hope to see another Mark class this year or next if he not busy.
Great sir
Great points....as always.
Philip
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Excellent video ... wonder if I will get a reply to this question. When you indicated that you used exposure compensation, it does change the flash or ambient exposure. Can you further explain as I thought that changing the aperture - affects the flash ... and ... shutter and iso affects the ambient. Again. ... can you explain your comments regarding exposure compensation.
This situation is where leaf shutter lenses make a huge difference. They can sync with the flash at much higher speeds. Higher shutter speed = darker ambient while keeping a wide open aperture (e.g. 2.8) setting. The wide open aperture, in turn, allows full power out of the flash, without having to use the HSS mode. HSS flash greatly reduces flash power--there is no free lunch.
Very true, my set up loses 3 stops in flash power just going from 1/250 to 1/320. Very annoying!
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Did you consider just using the scrim on the 5-in-1 reflector to diffuse the sunlight instead of blocking it?
What if you don't have an assistant or any shade? Would you shoot w the sun behind their head instead so it's not in their eyes?
I think the direct sunlight shots look fine....that's how things look in the daytime...Sometimes it feels like photography has moved away from capturing an image to creating an image
errr its always been about creating an image go look at Ansel Adams work for proof
Using the 5-in-1 as a diffuser would have worked just great too. Or have the sun behind her and use the flash to bring out detail and catchlights.
Not if he wanted full control of the background exposure and the exposure on her separately, with the background he wanted.
That is a great example... of why you should not use flash.
Thank you! Came seeking for anyone who saw that those aren't at all good photos. Syntethic look, face with absolutely no deph, weird shapes from that blocker shaddows, disconnection with the background, too cold colors. Just use a reflector for god's sake.
at -2 stop the flash miss some power but why you stay far of her? (at 1/2 of the distance, the gain of flash power is x4, right?).. thanks for your other fun and beautiful shoot video!!
There was a giant glass skylight preventing me from getting closer. It's down there by my feet.
How do you match outdoors ambient light with indoors ambient light without having a flask look?
Cool video.
Do we need permission or permits to shoot in other countries. How do passport and visa work when going to these places.
Not. Sure I'd go all the way to Columbia but Cuba would be a start
If you need a visa is dependent on the official relationships between your passport country and destination. A citizen of almost all the northern Hemisphere countries and enter visa-free for up to 90 days to Columbia. Cuba is as little more complicated depending on your passport country. If American you need s Pink Tourist card if you fly direct from the US or a Green Tourist card if flying from another country. You can be hassled when returning to the US if by direct flight from Cuba. It is better to fly from one of the Caribbean Islands to avoid delays and interrogations entering directly from Cuba.
Most other countries of citizenship of Europe and North America use the Green Tourist card which is less expensive.
You need to show financial responsibility of $50 per day in the country and medical insurance and return flight. Tourist medical insurance is usualy low cost just covering for the days you stay from a travel agent. The restrictions are minor considering it has been sanctioned by the US for 60 years. It is well worth the trip.
Personal photography does not require permits but some locations might, for example, private property or inside a building like a museum. Some museums require camera permits or a camera ticket but almost no museum or gallery will allow flash because it can fade tapestries and painting pigment. That is a very old policy but with high ISO cameras, any augmented light from, say, a LED light panel would be pretty safe. In the flash bulb era they were banned because bulbs exploded occasionally which could damage artifacts or injure other visitors. You will probably be restricted from shooting around government-designated security zones but they are usually sign posted but if in doubt around government buildings, ask. Cuba is a wonderful photo destination. I have been there several times and love it, and the people so warm and inviting, eager to show off their country. Columbia in times past when it was a major drug center, taking photos of strangers could be dangerous but that is in the past, and a wonderful safe tourist and photo destination. I have been in 92 countries and the only time hassled by police was in one of my rare visits back to my native USA, when I first went for a walk after picking up my new D800 Nikon when it was first released. I walked to a park that has a skateboard park and shot some teens getting air testing the AF. After 30 frames or so I wandered off to shoot some flowers and hear sirens and looked around and saw 2 police cars skidding to a stop and 4 police came running 200 feet, 2 with guns drawn, screaming at me to lay face down, one kicked my camera out of my hands and another held my other hand down with his boot. I waken to the nearest car to be interrogated. My crime, a parent called the police to say a middle-aged man was taking photos of "children". After an hour of checking ID verifications and the FBI database they let me go telling me not to go to the park, I had walked from a home I own, in the same neighborhood 400 feet away. I do not live there since I moved out of the US 22 years ago but my sister lives there. Needless so say I left the country soon after. Never hassled. But they did confiscate the CF card, the only one I had so only had a replacement when arriving back to my adopted home country. It is a quiet area north of Sacramento California.
Ask for passport control in any country you visit. Considering how many countries are on all continents and never a problem before or since.
Ask before going to countries before you go, some do not allow shooting strangers. Someone reminded me of that in India before I took photos of the colorful clothing. Sites but not people but people
Hood education thanks
The flash looks exactly like my Godox V1 Round Head
Because it is the same, just rebranded.
“wide open”
*f/5.0*
I know, I was thinking the same! Also, why complicate your life with a flash when you have a reflector with a diffuser? 🤦♂️
It's a kit lens. 5.6 is wide open when zoomed in.
@@MarkWallaceVideos also a lot high end, old school photographers shoot f11 and they shoot 7.1 when feeling a little bokeh
That's enough toneh
@@MarkWallaceVideos lol i know, it’s just “wide open” makes me think 2.8 at least yk?
Nice work. What would make her be separated from the background more?
a kicker light would do the trick. Shooting at a more flattering time of day is even better. But if you have to shoot in the worst part of the day this technique will improve the shots a lot.
You could use wide aperture to blur background more, or as they demonstrated, set the ambient exposure to darken the background and use the flash to expose the model. In the video, his flash wasn't powerful enough to expose the model using High Speed Sync, so you'd need a more powerful flash or get your shutter speed into sync range of the flash and maybe use a ND filter to darken the ambient light.
At time step 7:53
EXACTLY!!! Especially when you start dealing with flash exposure.
That was a very important fact to remember.
Great info Mark!! Hope you're staying safe down there. Are you still there by choice or are they telling you that you should be staying put still?
Is an "on camera flash" different from the flash that comes on my camera? Either way, I think I need one.
You have a lot more control with a flash you put on your hot shoe
Yes it is. The one that came on your camera is really called the built-in flash.
Isn’t that lens wide open at f2.8? Also why such low ISO for those shots? Any help appreciated. Thx
zoomed in its wide open at f/5.6. In bright sunlight, you always use a low ISO. Check out these videos:
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Because lower ISO was not available. The lower the amplification of the sensor signal the wider the dynamic range and lower noise. You can loose 1/2 your dynamic range with a change of ISO from 100 to 3200 si where light is bright with dark shadows to be able to record as much of that difference in light you need to be at a low ISO. Shooting higher ISO means blown out areas with lost detail is unrecoverable. That is why Flash or strobes when properly used, benefit your images more than any other factor in the session...lens, camera model, resolution, etc. I am often challenged by photographers seeing me with with a model and dragging out strobes or using flash on a sunny or cloudy day or as the sun lowers. Control of light is your ace in the hole, and is the great levelers between cameras. The specs and cost of a camera has almost no bearing on the quality of the results. So it is a bit bizarre to see that people are so wowed by new cameras and invest far more on bodies than their lighting and modifiers. Strobes are getting cheap, and modifiers are cheap, buy them and learn to use them before investing in new cameras. Cameras depreciate quickly but a $100 flash is will be in your kit years after replacing the camera. Good effective flash are aviable for $50 new! Strobes start at $250. A cheap folding scrim or reflect for $40 will improve output more than moving to a better camera at $5000. There are a lot of people buying flash defusers but usually they have limited benefit. since the lightsource relative size to the subject is still very small from the camera to subject distance but getting the same flash off camera closer to the the subject shooting through a scrim can create soft flattering light. So if you buy flash, you will have more options if it has RF wireless controller built in for off camera use and control.
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Ooof. Honestly, I think the light in these photos looks extremely artificial because the direction of the flash doesn’t match the rest of the scene. Granted, the harsh sunlight was coming at an angle that would make shooting in the chosen direction a bad idea. But I feel like something simple like a scrim might have done the trick, and if needed, a big scrim/softbox for a fill light.
Mark one question, how do you prevent the highlight spot on the end of her nose. Very distracting.
lightroom ;p
The smaller the light source is the more those highlights may pop up. Using a light modifier/diffuser (softbox, umbrella etc) can significantly lessen or eliminate instances where those specular highlights may occur.
Hello, I think the shadow below is exposed.Personally, I think the bigger the mirror, the better
What is juans instagram?
You should’ve did a picture without the dude holding the reflector as shade. So we can see what that looks like with the flash. Often photographers don’t have an assistant to do that
Trust me, it doesn't look good. And if you have no assistant to do that then don't use this technique. You'll have to try to find open shade or somewhere with generally decent light. Or backlight her and fill in with flash if your background is desirable.
The end product looks really unnatural. The light on her is super flat due to the flash being on camera, and it doesn’t follow the natural direction that the sun is pointing. Really need to remote trigger these flashes and put them through a modifier to get a nicer result
Anyway is far better than direct sunlight with racoon eyes
@@isoldo1 or just position your subject better and use the natural sunlight to your advantage
@@BlakeCastle in some cases you cant change position because the background very beautiful and customer really want take a photo with this background
I don't see why you would say that when the flash barely has enough power to have an effect on the exposure. It seems natural to me with the flash being barely noticeable.
maybe put your subject with the sun behind them mark eh? and i feel that it wouldve been more beneficial to have showed us a final reult when you dialled down to -2 we didnt get to see how you used the flash settings to light her up instead you merely stated "well you get the idea" not great for those wanting to learn is it . . .???
For those wondering about what mark was trying to show here . . . .
you can as he stated control the ambient light with your shutter speed
you then use the ouitput from the flash together with the aperture and the ISO to obtain the exposure you want
so my workflow would simply be as follows
set your shutter speed to the ambient light that you want dont worry that the shot will be blurry the flash will freeze the subject
set your flash out put to around 1/2 power
set your iso fairly low
and set your aperture to whatever you want wider open means lovely bokeh and out of focus backgrounds . . . . stopping down say towards F5/6 or F8 will reduce that background blur
take a test shot and work towards what you want to achieve from there
leave the shutter speed alone leave the flash power alone and just balance out the aperture and your ISO to get the exposure your looking for.
because then the desired background would not be in the photo.
Funny that you used to have a model named Wanna in Argentina and now you have an assistant named Wan in Columbia. 🤣
Juana y Juan in spanish. Wana is funny
And I know a fish called Wanda
Good video but unfortunately we don’t all have the benefit of someone holding a reflector for us
You can use a stand on a tripod
@@isoldo1 and pray for no wind! :)
that is unfortunate
That is the point of an "intentional" photo where you have a goal and make it happen. Anything else is luck or a snapshot. Having an idea of what you want before you set up or select the location is one reason why you can get the results you plan for as opposed to grab shots like snapshots. A tripod, light stand, friend with long arms, or ?? would work if you are shooting with intentian.
So it's ok to be shady?
Thats not good way of using flash.
At least for me I like the before picture much better, she is not looking directly into the sun and she has exciting lighting. The after one is too flat for my taste.
Is it just me who thinks that outside portraits works better without artificial lighting?
Rule number 1, get that flash off the damn camera.
That's a matter of personal taste. Everything looks fine to me, genius.
Lol these images look same as if model was added to this background in photoshop, absolutely unrealistic and unpleasant
these are useful but maybe your models can be more diverse and not all young women w professional make up
put that's what most professional models look like
This video shows umbrellas and softboxes are not needed as we are being told. On camera flash looks good enough.
I hope that 'good enough' is not your goal. This video does well to show what's possible with an on camera flash and a kit lens. Yes. You can get good photos. Off camera flash and modifiers will get you even better photos if you know how to use them.