Your First Light Setup (in 3 steps) | Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2024
- “How do I start with flash?” is a question almost every portrait photographer asks at some point. If you’ve just bought a Speedlight or you’re looking for a simple lighting set-up that works every time, Gavin Hoey has the perfect answer for you.
Using just a single Speedlight (or flash) and a small softbox, Gavin will take you through his three steps for simple but beautiful portrait lighting. First, he’ll set up his camera so it sees just the flash, then he gets the softbox super close to his model, and finally, he controls the background brightness by moving or feathering the light.
The best lighting setups are those that are also adaptable, so Gavin throws in a little extra excitement by adding a small fan. In doing so he shows how a simple twist can make your first lighting setup look like a professional studio shoot.
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0:00 Intro
0:34 Quick setup guide
1:55 Step 1: Camera Setting for flash
3:34 Step 2: Flash placement and power
5:12 Step 3: Background brightness control
6:00 Feathering the flash
6:44 Shooting with the lighting setup
7:58 Conclusion and Subscribe
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THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
I don’t say this lightly. I’ve been an slr user for 40 yrs. I’ve learnt more from Gavins videos than from anywhere else. Such a great manner, easy to follow and packed with information and tips.
Thanks for the kind words 👍
My favorite photographer hands down!
I learned photography when I didn’t have any camera and that’s why Gavin is the best in teaching , keeping it simple and yet professional.
I always enjoy Gavin’s videos. He’s enthusiastic and inspiring.
Gavin the humble knight!
I RARELY give thumbs up on videos about photography, but you got one. I learned something today. Well done!
Best photography guru in the net! 👍👍
When Fern is the model you know there are going to be some great images coming. The two of you make a great team.
When I get a notification that Gavin Hoey posted a video, I drop EVERYTHING and watch it. That last shot of Fernie's eye is beautiful! Thanks for posting and all the best to you and Sam in 2021!
Best tips and tricks video on internet for photography!!!
Gavin Hoey videos are gold for any photographers - perhaps platinum - or gold+platinum. Just watch them. All of them. And if you're an experienced professional? Well, watch through each and try to be the first to find any mistakes (you likely won't find them, but prove me wrong).
Keeping it simple. Awesome content.
This is absolutely one of the best tutorials on creating a portrait ever made. Thanks for keeping it simple and displaying your settings along the way. Thanks for not representing selling out for a specific product which takes away from the tutorial. Some of your viewers can’t afford some of that equipment.
Always great content with Gavin. SO many talents with Seth, Joe, Daniel, Vanessa and the rest. Adorama is producing great content, especially for a hobbyist photog like me.
Thank You Professor Hoey
Gavin Hoey is photography super hero, I wonder just how many he has helped along on their photography journey, he's just cheered me up with this video and his energy plus the fact that he's gone to the trouble of making this video on new years eve. Happy New Year to you Gavin, the lovely Fern and Mrs Hair=blower Hoey and all of my fellow Hoey subscribers.
I'm also sat in my studio answering comments on New Years Eve! Thanks for your kind words Andrew 👍
You keep it simple...thank you !
Gavin, thanks for another fantastic video!
Really good demonstration of the basics. Always good to go back and refresh. Happy new year, Gavin!
Happy new year Gavin, you always have the clearest and simplest to understand walkthroughs. I have learnt so much from you, thank you and Adorama.
Happy New Year Gavin, look forward to more excellent tutorials in 2021 👍😉
You made it look so simple! Happy New Year, GH.
Really great video (again). Just perfect for my level of photography, enthusiastic amateur.
Another great video ! Thankyou Gavin & Adorama !
You are the best! I really enjoy your videos and I use your techniques to improve my craft.
This is very helpful indeed. Thank you, and a happy new year!
always great Gavin!
Happy & crazy nice 2021!
I appreciate the helpful content from Adorama.
Lovely images Gavin, and a great breakdown of the process. Happy New Year to you and Sam 😊😊
Thank you so much you make everything so easy to understand!
Another well explained video that's simple to understand. Great job as usual Gavin!
Excellent...simple, understandable and to the point.Happy New Year
Thank you for the lighting tips. Very useful.
Always great thank you
SO helpful！thank u
Gavin, you clearly are passionate about photography and your enthusiasm makes your videos stand out from the rest. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind words 👍
Awsome work as always ! I leans so much form your vids ! Congratulations
You’re a very good educator. This one was relevant and timely as I’ve been teetering at the edge of attempting portrait photography. Thanks for making it easy to follow. 🙏🏼
Hi Gavin!!!
Thanks for the vídeo!
Your work un Excellent.
I am a photographer from Argentina.
Congratulations!!!
Wonderful video! Thanks!
Wow! Thank you so much!
Thanks for this concise explanation. I have been struggling with background lighting in a small space. This is perfect.
Once more a great video. Lots of info in a short time
Excellent info. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome and simplified video.
My New Year's Eve coffee was delicious this morning; being enhanced by the Gavin, Fern, and Sam tutorial. Cheers to you all! And have a cup of tea to celebrate. Thanks and Happy New Year!
Thanks Booth. I never say no to a mug of builders strength tea 👍
Happy New Year Gavin!
Thank you ! Nice video! Helpful!
This is the best that happened in 2020!
Arguably a low bar to pass 😉 Joking aside, thank you 👍
Gavin the masked photographer...the master of good pictures... 😀👍👍👍👍👍👍🤗🇨🇭
Awesome once again Gavin!
Love that this one was dialed in from scratch making metering mode irrelevant.
Yep manual flash means no metering required. One less thing to get distracted by 😉
What a great video for someone just starting out with OCF.
Hello mister Gavin thanks for the always instructive videos hope there will be more interesting topics in the new year I wish you a happy new year
Thank you, this video is so helpful to me
My fav Adorama host 🙌🏼
Awesome. Discovering your videos was definitely a bright spot in 2020 for me. Thanks for the inspiration. Happy New Year!
I'm really glad Adorama TV has helped you with 2020, it did the same for me too 👍
The undisputed champion of the Subsribe Button!
hello from France, So fun learning ^^ happy new year ^^ keep going.
Masha Allah! The greatest tutor on the internet for Photography. Thank you Sir. Love your videos.. Greetings from Chowdry Photography, Bengaluru, India.
That subscribe with the leaf blower at the end was awesome!
Another great video! Thanks and Happy New Year Fernie, Gavin and Sam
Thanks Alan and happy new year to you too 👍
Great concise video!
Very helpfull, im leaving wedding photography and starting as a portrait photographer of elderly ppl :) Thanks!
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Gavin!
Likewise 👍
Great video Gavin
Happy New Year !
Love this! Thank you!
Thanks Patty 👍
thank you for this it's really helpfull
Although I'm missing the standard smoke machine in this video ;-), I appreciate this crisp and clear educational clip. Thanks a lot for all similar stuff of the past (pandemic) year, keep on going with these kind of videos and have good start into 2021 !!! All the best to you all and stay safe & healthy !!!
Like your videos! Gavin.
Always enjoy these tutorials great for beginners and more advanced and it was great to see the leaf blower in action as an alternative to wafting boards, I have been on the lookout for something budget and compact rather than a proper studio fan as I dont use often and dont have space just need to find one with a latching power switch so I can use hands free!
I like the idea of latched power on the blower John. It would beat my DIY fix of using Velcro!
This video is so good and very well put together. I’m hoping to try this and try portrait photos with my bulldogs.
Nice back to basics video but I'm curious as to what device you're tethered to? Looks a smaller solution than using my laptop.
Great video 👍
I found your other video on hair blowing, thanks!
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Great content as usual Gavin. Thank you for sharing. Would you mind explain how and what exactly you have used from tether tools to connect to your ipad? I love your little blower it's very cute.
Thanks for this basic setting video. I will share it with group of photography students as they missed studio lighting classes because virus issue.
That would be awesome 👍
Wow
Super
I couldn't help but think that Fern's outfit was a bit like the painting of the girl with the pearl earring.
But another great video. Hopefully I will make the time to pick up the camera more this new year. Flash is still something I struggle with. Maybe I need to make it simple again with these tips.
Great
Hey Gavin I’m a huge fan. Do you have a video on tethering on your tablet
Really interresting; with that and the flash tutorial by Vanessa Joy about making use of flash in daylight, I think I will improove my use of flash in both studio and outdoor conditions :-)
I do look forward to seeing what subscribe button antics Gavin will come up with next.
Some say that's the best bit of my videos Frank. I'm just amazed anyone makes it that far 😉
Gavin, Sam and all the various models enlisted over the years always deliver ! Shame there was no smoke for the final video of 2020 (joking). Stay safe, everyone. Have a Happy New Year and let us hope that 2021 will allow some return to "normal" in the coming months.
Thanks Alan and I echo your words 🤞
I keep watching this video multiple times. Great content on fundamentals. @gavin, will it make a difference if using Octa softbox vs the softbox you are using. And can you please post on how much the distance the model is standing from the wall and distance between model and the softbox to get this result in the video.
Happy New Year Gavin. Thank you for another great video. Would you mind sharing the information on your textured wall background such as material and paint? Thanks in advance.
Hi Thomas. Already done www.gavtrain.com/?p=3824
@@GavinHoey thank you sir. I greatly appreciate the link and you sharing your talent and creativity with us.
Hi Gaven - I've followed you for years, and enjoy (and learn from) your tutorials. However, I do have a point I'd like to bring to your attention about your use of the phrase "flash sync speed" which you used in the context of this tutorial. It seems to imply that 1/250, or whatever speed their camera manual lists, is the ONLY shutter speed that will sync with flash. Obviously, this is not the case, as any shutter speed slower will also sync with flash. I believe if you inserted the term "MAXIMUM" sync speed instead, it might be better comprehended by your viewers that there are other slower speeds, but, case in point, in order to better darken the room, it is best to utilize your camera's "maximum" sync speed.
Thank you Mr Gavin, you are a blessing . Quick question, the monitor you are tethered to, what model is it? Or is it a tablet?
Great video Gavin and It is my first time using a flash
Hi Kirsty. First time flash users were exactly who I had in mind when we made this 👍
Did you get the flash for Christmas?
@@GavinHoey yes it is my first flash and I am Extremely happy and can't wait to use it and it was a Christmas present from my Dad and it is amazing too.
@@kirstyhepworth7343 Good choice of present from your dad 👍 I look forward to hearing how you get on with it.
@@GavinHoey I am doing great with my new flash and it is amazing
I just ordered the Godox TT600 + X1T-C, Godox 80cm umbrella type softbox.
This video is short & sweet.
Please put a video about same but with outside environment (if/when to use hss)...
Can't wait to get out and shoot on location again. In the meantime, you'll find lots of HSS on location videos on Adorama TV. Here's one of mine th-cam.com/video/3tVVIi5B23U/w-d-xo.html
Love your videos, Gavin. I always learn so much. Question: Is that an iPad that you are tethered to?
Hi Nicole. Not an iPad but a Lenovo Miix tablet PC. Sadly no longer made but a Microsoft Surface Pro would be the modern equivalent.
Thank you very much Gavin! I have only one question: Did you retouch with photoshoot the photos of the end?
Hi Sir,
Like always a very informative and well done video.
I'd like to ask you a question about your flash settings in a lighting setup like this: you talk about the small diffusion pannel, but you don't talk about the zoom parameter that we can find on many speedlight. Does this zoom parameter have an impact on the whole lighting, should it be set to the focal length of the lens you use or to the widest value possible?
Thank you !
Like the Tutorial. Bit what did. you do to the Skin color of Fern?
Nice picture
Thanks 👍
Nice video, again .. I'm also interested in which tablet you're using in this video doing the tettering stuff.
Hi Frank. Lenovo Miix tablet PC. Sadly no longer made but a Microsoft Surface Pro would be the modern equivalent www.adorama.com/miqwu00001.html
So when u put your aperture to f4 and the LCD is all dark, how do u know if your subject is in focus or not?
Great tutorial. What type of tablet or screen is that? Happy New Year!
It's my old Lenovo Miix tablet PC. Sadly no longer made but a Microsoft Surface Pro would be the modern equivalent www.adorama.com/miqwu00001.html