5 Quick Tips: Starting with Flash Photography
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video, Pye Jirsa addresses 5 key aspects of flash photography, covering techniques and tips essential when starting with flash, and even seasoned photographers looking to refine their flash skills.
This video serves as a guide, focusing on the practical application of flash in photography. Pye provides a walkthrough of flash photography fundamentals, including flash exposure, composition, modifiers, and the critical choice of your first flash unit. He emphasizes the importance of understanding manual versus automatic flash settings, effectively using a flash to enhance photo quality and ways to manipulate light for desired outcomes.
The tutorial also covers autofocus assist in low light conditions, the differences of flash zoom versus using a grid for light control, and the application of color temperature gels to achieve color harmony in your photos.
This video contains concepts crucial for photographers aiming to leverage flash photography, including flash bounce and shooting with TTL or ETTL (Through The Lens) metering.
By integrating the techniques discussed in this tutorial into your photography practice, you'll enhance your images' technical quality and open up new creative possibilities.
00:00 Intro
00:48 CAMP Framework
01:18 Choosing Your First Flash
02:08 Why Adjustable Flash Head
03:50 What Windows Do to Natural Light
04:22 TTL or ETTL vs Manual
05:28 Pye's Favorite Way to Do It
06:25 Auto-Focus Assist
07:59 Flash Zoom vs Grid
09:30 Zoomed In vs Zoomed Out
09:49 Pye's Grid Recommendation
11:07 Color Temperature Gels
12:01 Color Matching
13:21 Wrap Up
13:40 MagMod Community
Your feedback is invaluable to us. Dive into the comments to share your thoughts and experiences or ask any questions about flash photography. Pye and the MagMod team are here to support your growth as a photographer.
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Pye slowly becoming my favorite instructor. MagMod did a smart decision recruiting the man, he is an excellent brand ambassador.
Pye is amazing. Not just a talented photographer but also super good at being able to explain things easily.
Much appreciated Dinko!
Easy to understand, straightforward and I absolutely love your delivery - very easy listening/watching.
Pye, I’ve personally heard some very popular TH-camrs say they don’t feel it’s necessary to gel in incandescent event spaces. It makes my heart happy to know you take the time to teach how to do that. At least your viewers know it’s an option and how to do it.
Great stuff! I have always struggled with CTO and come to find out all I had to do was drop the white balance that far down! Wow!
Super Teaching... Easy language... Clear Thoughts... Great....
Love... From... India.....
Love this! So much content in a short video! Thank you Pye!!!
You the man, Pye!!!
That ETTL for test-shot and switching to manual is so logical, when you say and show it. Thanks for that!
Glad it was helpful! Pye has lots of useful tips.
You are the best teacher I know.
Pye, you & Gavin are my fave online instructors! Lot of thanks from indonesia
I’m really good instructions and graphics making it easy to understand. Great job.
Thank you! 🙏
Pye my guy! Great content.
Pye is the man!! 🎉
We agree!
Thank you so much that was so useful
Thank you!
You bet! Glad you enjoyed it!
True lies, one of the best action movies of all time 👊
I feel like I was forced to like and subscribe to your channel! 😆. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant, thank you.
Think of it as our version of a Jedi mind trick. "You will like and subscribe... it is your destiny." Thanks for joining the dark... I mean, the brilliant side. 😂
hahaha, mission accomplished =)
very very helpful !!!
Awesome tutorial!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Excellent. I watched a few of Pye’s flash tutorials before a went out and bought a Godox v1 with a modifier kit. The modifiers really make a difference. If I had a traditional rectangle flash I would be using Magmod modifiers.
Great to hear! Yeah modifiers are great for both rectangular and round head.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ THANKS!!!
Great video keep them coming 👍
Thanks, will do! More to come!
Copy that!
That dog is huge lmao love the vids man your voice is so easy to listen to
Yeah Gandalf is huge! Glad you enjoy it!
lol, he's 80lbs but acts like a puppy.
@@payamjirsa becareful lifting him lol
Hey Pye great video. What if you are in a hall with very High ceilings how do you then bounce the light or use a cto gel?
or of your out doors at night how do you warm up the picture with on camara flash?
Love these tutorials! Any chance of teaching us the various distances of off camera flash? Some people place it really near the subject while others kind of far
Great suggestion!
Great topic! I'll put it down and bring it to the team.
Thank you
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it!
TNX
Awesome
Thanks!
great tuto. For my a7rv, i purchased an expensive sflash sony HVL-F60rm2 whic, compared to my godox V1s and your prophoto, doesn't display the flash power and cannot use in manual mode (called tcm on godox). A pity. I must say that i know this bounce technique for years but any time i am in a event, i don't rely to a boucing wall,... and use magsphere 2, vertical or towars subject, to be sure not missing a shoot. I need to practice more the bouncing.
I always like Pye's videos. Any chance could the same Flash seccion where the walls are not white or beige? Some times the location Flash friendly walls and cellings when trying to bounce Flash well of the surrounding walls. 😉
Great show idea! Something to keep in mind is that when you bounce light off a colored wall it will often times come back that color. So if you want to avoid that you just need to move your flash off camera and onto a light stand and then position that stand where your wall is. So you get the same direction of light but without the color cast from the wall. Thanks for watching the video!
I love to see same video using westcott on camera flash. Is ETTL the long form of TTL?
Yes ETTL is the same as TTL.
I agree that there was a very warm spot around the light. But, isn't the photo taken with cto too "magenta" ? how do you fix that in post ?
Love the tools. What is the white screen on the stand? Is this something I can purchase?
It's the interior diffusor of a 5 in 1 reflector. They are cheap and available everywhere and very useful
Yep! Those are actually the interior portion of the 5-1 reflectors as @evocati6523 shared in their comment. When you unzip the 5-1 reflectors you can pull that interior scrim out.
Thank you for the information!! 😊
APPRECIATE MENTOR
Gandalf- gray and white
That mic is so good i thought he was giving a voice over
Mirrorless cameras can't use AF assist.
Flash model?
Profoto A10
Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White all in one!!!
Isn't he a gorgeous dog!
@@MagnetMod Spectacular beauty! His personality seems great too.
So the flash power on your Speedlite is in whole numbers whereas most others use fractions 😅
Yeah Profoto uses whole numbers. Westcott also has a flash that does as well. It actually makes a lot of sense and we are thinking more and more flash manufacturers are going to start making them this way.
AF asist x Predator Attack
Did you name your dog Gandalf because you're a wizard with photography
Nice random True Lies reference lol
$1,000 is too much for a speed light Pye. If I was sponsored by Profoto then sure, why not?
Yeah he said as much.
Gandalf because he is grey and white
You’re quoting True Lies!
Bingo! The bridge is out!!!!
lol, yes I am! One of my old school favs.
@@payamjirsa man, whenever that movie is on TV, the channel surfing stops there! It’s a guilty pleasure of mine too!
Haha, I'm with you!
@@jonjourneys6932
Please please Pye, use cheaper flashes so we know we get the same results regardless if possible 🙏
You can.
Arnold S and Jamie Lee…. The bridge is out.
True Lies reference for the win! Do NOT look at the flash!
Nailed it!
Yessir! And yes, probably not good to look at that laser, lol.
Flash is a great tool that amazingly impractical to use without advanced knowledge. it is extremely user unfriendly. I hate flash. Controls for flash sucks. Chimping all the time. constant testing and retesting. power issues relative to distance. ttl can be awesome or a fraking mess. no universal controllers.
but...if u can learn it, it is basically superpower.
But MAN i hate flash.
Thank you for articulating what I have always felt. I know what a good photo looks like with flash. Why do I basically have to do calculus every time I want to do that? What the hell is 1/256 +.03 power?