Flash Photography: Tricks for TWO Moody Looks with ONE Light (EASY Tutorial)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ต.ค. 2020
- In this flash photography tutorial, I've got 2 easy flash photography tricks to alter the mood of your photos that require just one strobe and two flash gels. Create a flash photography portrait with outdoor flash photography using flash gels, Profoto ocf softbox 2x3, Canon 1DXII, and of course these two brides modeling with Pnina Tornai dresses from Kleinfeld Bridal. One light portrait photography can be fun with this outdoor flash photography lighting setup that's a great off-camera flash for weddings and portrait photography really of any kind. Using off-camera flash photography for beginners tutorials is one of my favorite ways to teach changing the mood of a photo - all by teaching how to use flash gels!
Learn from this EASY Tutorial on Flash Photography. Two Gels and a Flash. Tricks for TWO Moody Looks with ONE Light.
Hope you enJoy!
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I cannot do that! Taking photo with high heels
Lol hence my store tab 😉
Actually, it’s easier to crouch down in heels than flats 😆
Love this! Thanks!
Love it!
Love this Vanessa!! Thank you.
Excellent teaching, Vanessa.....doing what few can do in today's climate.
Awesome work VJ. Love the shots.
Glad you enjoyed ☺️
This is an oldie but a goody! I love using CTO gels and shooting tungsten WB during daylight!
So. Much. Fun.
Thank you Vanessa for the awesome tutorial. The use of the blue gel is genius.
Fun right?
Thanks for sharing! Nicely explained step by step !!
Glad you liked it!
as usual a pleasure to watch your how to videos, excellent!
Thanks 😊
this comes in just handy! I´ve got a couple shooting in 2 hrs and it´s very cloudy today
Great Video!!!
Thanks!
Good stuff...thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching ☺️
Excellent tutorial by the way.
Thank you! Cheers!
Great to see you still using the 1DX MKII 👌
It’s a fav!
Really nice Joy. I love the final image.
Thanks 😊
Hi great video!
I’m a bit confused though about starting with ttl to lock it in. Why not just start in manual? And I’m not sure how ttl locks it in? I know there’s a setting on my Godox trigger and flashes that sounds like what your doing but I’m not sure
That is a Profoto feature that I believe both Westcott , and godox have now on their newer lights. I do this because it gets to a correct power setting faster than if I start in manual.
I really get so much value from your step by step videos, especially metering and posing.💖👍🏻 Thanks again for sharing.
You are so welcome!
Thank you Vanessa for the awesome flash photography tutorial. it's still good content for me ;-)
My pleasure 😇
You just clearly explained and illustrated a concept that I've never quite understood the utilization of before. Well done, and thanks!
That makes me so happy!!!
Wow..
More learning for me Vanessa, keep the good work up. Can I ask when u shoot your portraits and of course weddings, do you use manual, aperture or shutter priority? Hope you don’t mind me asking. Thank you.
All manual almost all the time :)
@@VanessaJoy thank you Vanessa much appreciated
Ericka in all the videos
She’s the best
Nice tutorial vanessa
Thanks 😊
I am on a marathon watching your videos.Never seen such amazing and fun tutorials and teaching. Thank You so much for all of it.
Thank you for watching!
Is just with Profoto that allows you to measure in TTL and then lock the settings by switching to Manual?
Yes, but some other companies have started piggybacking on the tech
The Godox/Flashpoint does it. I start it TTL and then can press a button on my trigger that transfers it to manual and shows you the setting on the trigger.
@@jasonhubbard5422 I appreciate it, Jason!
Awesome tutorial! Guilty of also leaving the plastic on my toys. 🤣
You and me both!
All great I like the idea, but why vertical video?
Great tutorial.. Vanessa, I know this is an oldie but I gotta ask.. Are you still using the 1DX or are you mostly Mirrorless now? It would seem you work with the R5 but I'm just curious if the DX still gets action for you? BTW.. Love how you made these shots look so dramatic without going HSS.. Nice to see good portraits being shot at 7.1 aperture.
I use both the r5 and 1dxiii :)
@@VanessaJoy sound decision I'd say 😊
Hi Vanessa, I like the explainations, good job. I have a question however about the WB correction values. Do you have a lookup table (which you know by heart) or is it just a shot from the hip? I mean from 6500K to 8000K or vice versa from 6500 to 4300? Or is it a well known rule of thumb or some correction factor like SQRT(2)?
(I'm not Vanessa. Apologies.) IMO precision is more important when you want to chimp with, say, an art director, the model or a TH-cam camera. To a raw file, the WB number only tells your post-processing app how to open your file, it does not change the measurement values from the photosites in the sensor that populate the raw file.
It would also matter when you shoot JPEG, or raw + JPEG, e.g. as a wedding photographer who wants to already surrender some snapshots on the same day.
Any guess about white balance of available light is a wild-assed guess. In this case, Vanessa will have built experience with the effect of the CTB filter. If the WB shift she sets in the camera is precise, depends on her assessment of the WB of the available light, not the strobe with the CTB. If precise WB really matters, I would bring a photographic reference grey card and measure that in the custom WB dialogue of the camera. With these models and their dresses, it seems in TH-cam that at least one of them is faintly off-white and I would also shoot a color reference with that, to get perfect tint from raw processing. And next, out of my hands, a post house can change the colors of the dresses completely if marketers want that ;)
@@jpdj2715 Thanks for your answer. What you describe is obvious. I gather from your answer that is in the end precision vs time and effort, because what you answer in the end, that for marketing purposes you can influence any pixel is surely true, but a lot of hassle for secondary color correction if you could deliver on location a proper starting point. So in short I interpreted more in the relative WB shift than it really is. Thanks and greets from Bremen, Germany
@@arnewinterboer201 - Well, Arne - to repeat myself in other words: (a) guessing white balance in the wild when looking around is really difficult; (b) being precise during shooting saves you as photographer much time later; (c) if you need to deliver JPEGs from yous shoot, make sure WB is set correctly; (d) "for marketing purposes" references after you delivered the shots to the client when they have a precise starting point from you.
As to (b), I always carry a ColorChecker Passport from X-Rite. It has the size of a regular passport. A hard plastic shell that closes well to protect the inside. Open it and there is one "page" in it.
Open with the inner page and shell-inside in one plane, place in subject frame, or ask model to hold and fire a shot. That's it.
In Lightroom, use the dropper tool to set color correction reasonably precisely. If you want to be very precise, make sure you have shot the passport big enough for the X-Rite app to be able to turn that shot into a profile file (which defines location light, camera and lens in one go). That profile goes much deeper into color correction than anything else. For above-normal precision, I use the passport with LR dropper, for critical work, I use the profile tool. Note X-rite can create a profile for locations with mixed light light a big room/space with both daylight from windows and artificial lamps as well.
My passport version also has a "grey card" on one page, that I can use with the camera to set a custom whitebalance (your camera must have the custom option) and in my camera, I can even correct tint. That grey card makes it very easy.
As indicated, with raw files, doing all this, you do not get different raw exposure data. But you get a very convenient and fast start to correct whitebalance related color (and tint as well) in one click and can apply that to a suite of shots with the same light.
And again, if you shoot JPEGs, it is advised to make serious work of all this. We may think that JPEGs are only 24 bits in color space (because we have RGB pixels: 8+8+8) and that this is much less than the 14 bits of the camera. Not really. The 14 bits relate to the analog-to-digital conversion between sensor and camera intelligence and relate to the monochrome photosite reading. After de-Bayerization and de-mosaicking, you have to be very happy to still have 26.3 bits of color space: less than 9+9+9.
So, if you have excellent in-camera JPEG conversion and do not want to apply a lot of in-post processing (the camera's JPEG conversion may outperform Adobe's ...), and if you generally retain the SOOC (*) character, then have JPEG conversion done in camera, based on proper white balance. Treat your raw files as backup of JPEGs in stead of the other way around.
"precision vs time and effort" - I do not think that these are a dichotomy. If you include a bit of precision in shooting then total time and effort can become much less.
Greetings from the country of old low west Franconian
(*) Straight Out Of Camera
@@jpdj2715 Thanks again. Bits of it were very clear to me. The quality of Camera internal JPEG vs Adobe Raw, I wasn't aware of. I owe the ColorChecker Passport as well in combination with EOS R and Capture One, since I have allergic reaction to Adobe abo approach. Unfortunately CO does not support profiling like LR, but since I am only a hobbyphotographer, I can cope with the lack. The origin of my question was focused on the WB spread between the environment and the gel. Nevertheless I like this chat very much :) Greets.
@@arnewinterboer201 - welcome. I am not saying camera JPEG is better than Adobe Raw, by the way. But in-camera raw to JPEG conversion is very good nowadays and you can apply profiles in that processing. It is so good that I recommend to compare camera-JPEG with the JPEGs generated by your post processing software from raw.
The way you describe your photography, I recommend you try shooting JPEG with raw to the second card. Only use the raw shots to retrieve aspects that got lost in JPEG. It frees up time and lots of work that you can afford to shooting instead.
I shoot Nikon and generally have my WB set to "Cloudy" that gives very neutral color. But this is dependent on your geography. I live near Amsterdam.
Such a setting means, in landscapes and outdoors photography that color gets warmer when the sun sets, or a bit more blue when the weather is hot and the sun high. Which actually matches people's perception or color memory. Note that using the ColorPassport at sunset almost completely removes the sunset character. So you need a vision (opinion) on when to use such tools and why.
If you do the profiling well, and move away from the "default Adobe color processing" profile then Lightroom is very good (but has weak points in its basis).
My problem with alternatives to LR is that (a) they have no hard policy about what is included in my purchase (as in free updates) versus paid upgrades to a new version, and (b) I still would need Photoshop next to them.
With my Z 7, C1 only supports two of my 5 lenses :( and their raw processing seems OK, but that may change when they add more lens support.
At this moment, I think that DxO PhotoLab has the best raw processing. Especially when you apply their deep AI. Wow. But, open a folder with a lot of 45.7 MP raw shots and it takes ages to build the thumbnail preview.
If I buy the Z 7 II (no fuzzy filter as I call the color-AA glass), I may decide to throw in DxO PhotoLab (if it supports all my lenses by then) - just for processing images that seem to suffer from random color processing noise in LR at default settings.
LR is blazing fast on my Z490/10700K/32GB workstation with 1080 Ti (11GB vRAM) and 4 RAID arrays with two 4K displays. On my high end laptop (4K) with 9 series i7, discrete NVIDIA GPU with its own 4GB vRAM and image data on Thunderbolt 3, I cannot get Lightroom to perform properly and stably. Even after Adobe's help desk helped set memory parameters. In all cases, GPU acceleration is on Auto. Or, post processing is this multi faceted monster. And more AI in the future will not make it easier.
I may replace the 1080 Ti by a 3090 at some point and the 32GB by 64GB, just to be on the safe side.
These two 4K displays, or even a single one, wreak havoc to preprocessing in/by these apps.
We used to joke that MS-DOS was an acronym for Maybe Some Day an Operating System. Well, Windows 10 64 Pro runs stable in my hands on my hardware, but it cannot easily inform me about what is going on and potentially how to solve it.
The applications are all written in the "scalable" philosophy - meaning they claim more resources when they need more - without any consideration for what a system can handle nor without any ability to (automatically) adapt to hardware and OS limitations. An age old application like MS-Word behaves much better (it was originally developed for Apple Mac in the 1980s and then MS bought that company.)
Now back to the studio.
What’s the dimensions of the softbox? Do you use this dimension for couples?
2x3 and yes I would
hi Vanessa how much Strap
Are gels really necessary if shooting in RAW?
Yes because in this case it changes the color of the background only… vs adjusting the entire image like you would in post (granted you could mask and change the background in post too but who want to spend the time doing that when you can just throw on a gel?)
Can u please tell me where you got the dresses from please love ur channel amazing videos x
Kleinfeld Bridal in NYC ;) they’re Pnina Tornai
@@VanessaJoy lol in in the uk in a small town called hull it mite be a bit far for me to go to NYC just yet I'm hoping to start travelling next year on motorcycle tho lol but thanks x
@@VanessaJoy I'm just starting to setup a photography busines up do y have any advice the I should do be for I fully set it up I'm hoping to be set up by March x
@@damien5558 yes :) watch this:th-cam.com/video/qwXKCYyj0qk/w-d-xo.html
The heels may hurt ...but they look great on you
#worthit
Doooope
Thanks 😊
Well done as usual Vanessa. I'm assuming this was pre Covid when we were free in the world.
Way back when :-/
I was just going to ask why is no one wearing masks and being so close to each other you should’ve put that in the description
@0:12
@@blonko86 Hey smart ass and also only takes one second to put it in the byline to
@@paulbelletiere it's in the video. Who cares about your concerns it's just a flu. The rest of the world is aware apart from Americans. And it's HER channel!
Vanessa are you a model before Photographer and do you do any modeling now I think you would photograph beautifully.
Aw thanks. But no I wasn’t ☺️
2:47 Having that plastic there would bug me so much! I don't know how you do it!
Lol welcome to NY
Why dont you use rf 28-70 and eos R/R5/R6 for this type of shooting ? Rf 28-70 f2 is the most universal lens :).
Bc was this was about a year before it came out 😉
What brand is your voice activated light stand? 🤔
Profoto 😉
@@VanessaJoy I thought I recognized him. Is that a special accessory or does he come with every B10? 😜
To see more color-accurate images than just on the back of your camera would have been great.
You can edit my next video 😉
Deal! 😃
Nice one, Vanessa! "Ok, Erica... Give like a little lean...maybe drop the dress". And, "Ok, Casey, drop the dress". (Wouldn't you need a permit for that?)
Lmao. Dirty mind
@@VanessaJoy Correct!
Why virtual, why not horizontal while recording the video.
Says why right in the beginning. And in the description
@@VanessaJoy I heard it.
@@wannabeturbo , anybody reading the description or listening to the video should have heard it. 🤷♂️
Don't you want to change your shutter speed to control the background exposure?
Yes but I didn’t want to go into high speed sync so I didn’t have anywhere else to go :)
i also keep the plastic on my phone still has the plastic after 1.7 years, just saying
lol I knew someone would understand my madness
can"t see well
I skipped ahead to check.
Yes, the entire video was shot in portrait mode.
I agree, very frustrating in full screen on my large computer screen.
Very edjucative video. However I dislike the portrait format (due to the Instagram crop). I suggest showing each photo full frame instead of showing the display of your camera.
Educative***
@@CAMphotography_ Thank you. I have corrected it.
This was a live video, we couldn’t do that at that time
I'm the worst student for numerous reasons.
I need to excel from just pushing a button
Lol oh yeah. That’s definitely all it takes. I usually have one of those bobbing chickens just doing it for me
Do you know what this video is really missing? No, it's not full-frame pics that have been made during this session and could have been inserted at the end, just in case, simply because they are not really visible when Vanessa shows them on the back of her camera. No, it's not them.
What this video is really missing is the entire group, including Vanessa AND Cliff who is holding that softbox, all of them dancing under Cliff Richard's Devil Woman right there, on the streets of New York as the end titles rolling on.
That's where your high-heels will really shine, Vanessa. So, stop complaining about them! Get groovy, while that cool old song is in the background!
th-cam.com/video/fxEzu-0TmFw/w-d-xo.html
I feel like as consequence for this comment you should edit my next video, while wearing my heels.
@@VanessaJoy Well, at least you don't suggest wearing a dress that is on one of those girls. I must say it would look ridiculous on me. But...eh-m, if wearing your heels while doing edits for you at my computer is the only condition...well, why not.
P.S. I still think you should consider Devil Woman's piece with Cliff in it. Not Cliff Richard, I mean. The fella who manages the softbox for you.
You'll look stunning together. I mean dancing under Devil Woman.
Haha maybe
@@VanessaJoy All right, "maybe" is the way to go. Or I guess "haha" will do even better.
@@tedming3515 lol
Course representative: adjust the color temperature of the camera, add color slices to restore the skin tone and change the background color temperature.
Honestly, why bother with changing gels when you can do this in Lightroom with just a click.
Because I like holding a camera and not a mouse. 😜
Personally, I think these vertical format cellphone videos are terrible. You can film very well and in high quality with your mobile phone ... but in landscape format, please.
Not on IG streaming you can’t 😉