Olympus Fireworks Tutorial | Live Composite Portraits
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2018
- This is a tutorial on how to combine a portrait of your family AND get amazing fireworks in the same frame. We use the Olympus EM1 MKII, 12-100mm lens and a Godox flash to make this image we think you'll love doing with your own family this fireworks season. Happy 4th of July to everyone in the USA!
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Great at explaining the process. I am taking my notes with me to shoot family fireworks so I have more confidentce with my OM-1 Mark III and added Live Composite to My Favorites menu.
Thank you for this tutorial, love it when you put the notes notes up on the screen! That’s very helpful. Hope you do this again when we have real fireworks thank you
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. Many thanks. You are a motivation for me continue using Olympus.
What an awesome idea. Thanks for sharing...
Great job, explaining.
Your videos are really great man. I dig it
Joseph, great video ... , now I need to try it . With the composite mode I can be quite creative ...
Thank you, Libor
I really love your videos, both the delivery and the content
Very funny function in Olympus cameras, because of the amazing looking results and you can watch the processing at the display during the exposure. I took pictures on New Years Eve with up to 5 minutes exposure time. I love that function. Also good in other situations. Thanks for the very good video! I need a brushing up in functions of Olympus menus from time to time.
Great video. Now to put it to work.
Great explanation. I am going to shoot fireworks tonight with OMD EM1 Mark II so this was really helpful. I always enjoy your videos. Thank you.
Great video, thanks
Great video, thanks. I've had some success with lightning (set at 4s) and had never thought to try portraits or add flash into the mix - subscribed :)
Perfect timing, Joseph. I was planning on taking my flash to try this and wasn’t sure it would work. You’ve clarified this immensely. Thanks tons. Have I told you you’re amazing?
Great work mate! I've been loving your videos on these more technical style videos! I'm a food photographer, but still love getting into the nitty gritty long exposure composite stuff :-)
Thank you so much.
Joseph, thanks for getting this published in time for our July 1 Canada Day!
Your friendly neighbours from the north.
That’s awesome, good luck!
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Great video! Whats the flash power setup? Or its on TTL Mode?
This mode is why I cant give up Olympus its freeking amazing. Do you think I should wait until they announce a new camera ? Or just get an em1 ii. I currently have an em1 and love it but I want more pixelssss and the newer options lol
Brilliant video...How does this affect the cameras shutter count?
Hi Joseph. What do you think about sRGB vs adobeRGB. I can not decide wheter I need to buy full AdobeRGB laptop and monitor, which is expensive choice. I want to print formats to A3 on my own printer which I buy later. Is there huge difference between this two colour gamuts for prints of landscape, family stuff,.. ? What do you prefer and do you think is the best choice for non-pro and amateur? Thanks.
Is it possible, during your Live Comp, to change the aperture?
Hi Joseph, thanks for the great demonstration. Could you please explain how to focus on your kids in the video? Did you use auto focus or manual focus? Thanks
Sure, the best way to do it is with a flashlight/led light and either back button focus or manual focus. I used the LED from my phone to focus on them and it was locked because I use back button. If you do use the trigger to focus you could either focus and then put the camera into MF, pull the clutch mechanism on a pro lens to lock it or program on of the Fn buttons to lock focus.
Love your videos. Question on the fireworks, how do you focus for the fireworks?
Hi Pamela, I can think of maybe 3 ways to focus on just the fireworks 1. Before the show begins focus on any distant point of light/building etc. you can see with either regular AF or manual focus with magnify. Then just change to manual AF (if you haven't already) in the super control panel and recompose for your fireworks scene. 2. If you have a Pro lens you can pull back the focus ring and set the manual focus to the infinity marker 3. You can wait until the fireworks begin and they will generally put off enough light to focus on some distant object on the ground to get infinity focus. Just don't point it at the sky because while it might work once in a while it will probably lead to AF hunting. I hope that helps! P.S. In my video above I'm not focused on the fireworks but rather on my kiddos and I just let the aperture take care of making the fireworks reasonably sharp. To focus on the kids I used the flashlight function of my phone
This is good to know and will come in handy. However, I am a little confused. You indicate to take a photo of your kids and THEN activate Live Composite. Since this shot was taken and not part of Live Composite it won't be part of the final composite image so why take it? Live Composite will take two shots, the first of your children (with flash and I assume that is an external flash)which servers as the foreground and then it will add light in each shot thereafter. Is the purpose of the shot of your children prior to going into Live Composite to get the correct camera settings of your children as the main subject and used as the camera settings once you go into Live Composite? Thanks
Thank you! I just found that I have this on my original E-M1 (with firmware update). I have a question: Why can you not use the flash on the first exposure the live composite takes for ambient light? And why the kids can not just go away after the flash fired? The flash image of the kids should still be there even if they leave the frame, or not?
My guess that the light behind the kids will be exposed and overlayed on them.
Thank you for taking the time to explain this Joseph. However, I have a problem with this and other videos on this subject as it does not seem to agree with (a) what the manual says, and (b) what my own experiments show. I have the EM5Mk2. The manual says that the first shutter press is to "prepare" for shooting. Indeed, if I do a live composite by totally changing the scene between the first and second shutter press, then nothing in the first 'scene' appears to make it into the the final composite. This suggests to me that the manual (at least for the EM5Mk2) is correct.
So in practice, it appears to me that the base exposure is taken on the second press of the shutter and this makes sense, as this is the only time that the flash will fire (if turned on). All subsequent (partial) exposures will not include flash, regardless of whether you have it turned on.
Is the manual correct, or am I missing something?
I think both the manual and Joseph are correct, it is just the terminology that is confusing. Yes the first press of the shutter button 'prepares' it for shooting and the next press takes the base exposure. I think Joseph has used the word 'exposure' to mean the press of the shutter button. This is why the flash happens on the second press of the shutter button... or second 'exposure', even though it's not really exposing until after the second press. Either way it sounds like you have it working for you :)
@@Bassbarbie so, that was my question, flash only on first picture? or second click? then after that electronic shutter with no flash?
Hi Joseph, if I set my camera at 1 sec, I realize the building in the LCD will be somewhat continuous. But, when the first 1 sec finishes, will it be another 1 sec before the next shot is taken? That sounds like a break in the fireworks streaming up. Thanks.
Think about the one second shutter as being your ambient exposure for areas where the light doesn’t change so as you build the live composite the image doesn’t get overexposed. The live composite will be continuous and there won’t be any visual breaks in your image. I hope that helps.
Excelent,
I just have a question,
I apologize for my ignorance but,
How do set the flash to fire just once ant starting the live composite shooting and not at the first background shooting either?
OK so the first interval of a Live Comp (if you have the flash on the camera) is going to be a regular flash image albeit with a shutter speed of 1/2 second or longer (as required by LiveComp). After that image is recorded the only light that will record for intervals 2+ will be new light (like fireworks). No special modes for flash required just regular TTL. This does require your subjects to remain mostly still or you might see some blurring around the edges from the background lights.
If you don't like the idea of the flash happening at the beginning you can simply find the manual power setting on the flash that makes your initial image work and pull the flash off of the camera. Start your live comp and your first fame will be dark on your subjects, wait until your background is built and then simply add the flash by pressing the test button at any time and it will record just like any new light source but in this case instead of a background light it will light your subjects.
Does that make sense?
Thanks
Ok. I tried fireworks about 6 months ago and it didn't work. User error for sure.
So, I am still confused about the steps,
You said to take an ambient photo of the kids (base picture), choosing 1 second, BEFORE starting the entire comp process.
And, make sure it's exposed properly.
Then start live comp and bring up the menu.
Choose the shutter speed wanted, but the camera is set for 1 second and the exposure on the kids is correct.
Then, in live comp, you select the shutter speed, and you chose 1 second. Was that because the camera is already set the camera for 1 second, and they have to be the same. That means that you knew that 1 second worked with your ISO and f stop before ever going into live comp.
Later you say that you set the initial picture, outside of live comp, as the ambient which will be dark.
But, the first manual shot had the kids exposed properly. They are part of the ambient exposure.
But, no the kicker is that you said the first picture, under the control of live comp, fires a flash, to light up the kids, but they were already properly exposed, which would over expose them.
I am confused on how to do the flash portion, as the second shot?
If you just turn the flash on (regular TTL) then when you are in Live Composite the flash will fire with the second exposure and at the same time the fireworks will start to record. Does that make sense?
Joseph Ellis yes I believe I get it now, I am very new to OMD.
Can this be used, without people? 🤔 I hate portraits.! Now it's said.!
You shouldn't expose for the ambient light. You should choose an f-stop (and iso) for the fireworks. When an object is moving in the frame the shutter speed doesn't have any impact whatsoever on the exposure. Only the f-stop and ISO do. Then once you have something that works for the fireworks, change your base exposure time to expose the ambient light correctly, but in the example you gave there literally was no ambient light. It's pretty clear you don't understand what you're doing.
Precies
First step: Roll the shutter all the way past 30 seconds to live composit.
Second step: Set the shutter to 1 second?
Uh, you already failed dude.
Waisted my time