The Easiest Way to Light Wedding Speeches and Toasts | Master Your Craft
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2024
- Lighting a wedding reception can get tricky. Rather than running around with a flash, in this video, Pye walks through a simple fixed lighting setup that will let you photograph wedding toasts and speeches from virtually any angle.
Time Stamps: Easiest Way to Light Wedding Speeches and Toasts
Intro: 0:00 - 1:06
Your Goal: 1:07 - 3:04
What You Need: 3:05 - 5:02
Scenario + Setup: 5:03 - 9:32
Tip #1: 9:33 - 10:05
Tip #2: 10:06 - 11:34
Tip #3: 11:35 - 12:15
Outro: 12:16 - 12:56
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Nice tips ! Sisters wedding tomorrow 😀this will help a million Thanks 🙏
Lets go for the 2 and 3 setups! I wonder when camera's are able to shoot in those low light conditions.
Please do more of these. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Even giving tips for the second and first shooter situations ❤️!
🤩 this advice is going to transform my wedding photography to a new level
Happily, I haven't been roped into shooting a family wedding for years - but I wish I'd seen this back then. Great strategy!
Pye You offer an incredible gift. You really know this stuff well, and you explain it with ease. Thank you!
The video is gorgeous and interesting. Everything is told in detail and competently. I was very pleased with the light scheme and the view of the hall from above. You are great !!!
Love it!! Thank you!! I have my first ocf wedding Friday!! I’m nervous but more confident after seeing your video!
Very helpful and to the point with examples. THANK YOU!! I like that you listed the gear list too.
PAI is the Best! 😊
Over a 33 year career (film time not digital) I always double lit receptions and used a tall sturdy light stand with roller wheels and a good sand bag to prevent the stand from being knocked over by an exuberant guest particularly during dance time. No 1600 ISO then though.
Love love these tips, so super helpful 🎉💡
Thank you Pye and Adorama for the interesting video. Your style of explaining things makes my life easier in event photography
we need more things like this.thank you so much for the tips and trick. :)
This was amazing! Super practical and easily digestible. Please do another segment with Pye
Great tip! Thank you so much!
This is great. Looking forward to the next series
Loved the video-especially the overhead diagram! Very helpful!
Fantastic video. So easy to follow and learn. Thank you 😊
Great video my 1st wedding coming up in a few years and now got a couple of ad200 strobes to set up so nice to see some techniques to just confirm my overall idea looks about same 👍👍 although I’d not thought of putting gels on them so will pack them as well and give them a try 👍👍
Another awesome tutorial!
Great tips, thank you.
Fantastic Pye, thank you
Great advice...and professional relaxed presentation. Ive learned quite a lot from this video.
Hey I love what you have done here Pye and would be real keen to see the 2 and 3 light setup. Thanks from Australia
As a wedding videographer, I definitely agree with wanting to achieve this look. IF you’re working with one of us who has some constant lights, work WITH us. Maybe use your lights to add a rim/hair light on the speaker and/or the couple. I’m so glad there’s education for both video and photo to create this look, shooting shadow side of quality lighting. Love it.
This is great 👍🏽 I’d love to see more
Great video with lots of great information 👍keep them coming
Fantastic video Pye. Good to see you make use of Magmod accessories too. Please do a follow up video as suggested and look forward to next week.
I'd love to see you thoughts on 2 and 3 light setups. Brilliant info, thank you so much.
Thank you...just what I needed for an upcoming event
Also love the work!
awesome!!!!
great in-depth explanation
Follow up! Love this
Thanks for sharing 👌🏻
Great input. Very useful
Great Video!!
Great!
Muchas gracias por sus grandes consejos..................
Great video as always
Another great video
As always very informative and amazing! Found my error from first event photography. Wall and sealing were dirty blue so I just didn't use flash. I could just bring stand from the car and put CTO gel ... Even without grid could be better. Thankfully iso performance of my camera was enough to shoot without flash)
very helpful, thank you vm!
First, one of yours I've watched! Thank you so much for the information. This is a great help!
Very nice video. Great job
Thanks maestro! 👍
Great video and instructions! I'm scheduled to shoot a wedding next month, and I'm a solo artist without a second shooter. I plan to use the same setup, and I should have enough time to adjust the position of my flashes. Thanks!
Hi Pye! More of this!
just found you a few months ago - always informative
Great video. Would love to see your tips on lighting smaller enclosed rooms with low ceilings.
Nice one.....
Question: So when shooting with ocr in these situations, how do you capture shots of the guests? Your flashes are pointing in the wrong direction. Thanks so much for all your amazing vids!
Great video
Very interesting as usual. Besides how to pin your flash, what you said about the power starting point of your flash based on your ISO will be extremely usefull. Thanks!
U r my mentor 💙 thanks alot
Don't get funny of me, I think, also we are identical in personality and way of thinking .. thanks again
,,,just what we needed as second shooters for a gig coming up!
The best for you
Very informative. Thanks, 3.1416.
Please please more on this - 2-3 light set up needed
I try not to do many weddings because where I live they are long and other than a 20 minute ceremony the rest of the time 10-30 hours is remarkably freeform. with many random stops along the way for almost all the wedding party...also, the going rate is poor.
But I use a few remote flash for dance club, dance competition , conventions and actor master classes. I can walk anywhere in a venue and get decent or even great lighting. I started doing that about 15 years ago when called upon to cover a large party of about 500 guests in a hall celebrating an anaversry of a chain of night clubs. I set up 4 remote flash bouncing from the ceiling I mounted with gaffers tape to upper section of the walls. That worked well using my controller to determine which to all flash trigger. Thhat worked well so refined it for smaller events. I was only using Nikon SB900 flash units but it really worked well. In one dance club I am often paid to cover special events or private parties, I have mounted some low cost Chinese flash(Yonguno 968 flash which have built in wireless transceivers. I leave them there al the time, and use AC powered supply instead of batteries. they are there after 5 years and get used a few times a month. I have had zero problem with them and now only buy flash compatible with that system, I can get 3-4 of them for the price of one Nikon, and do not have to get separate RF controllers.
Nice to know a speedlight can do the job. Thanks!
Indeed it can 📸 However, the recycle time at higher power will let you down. You could wait up to 4 seconds at 1/2 power on the 600EX II-RT
Amazing stuff...can this also be accomplished with steady LED lights opposed to off camera speed lights?
Hello Sir Pye, what if there is already enough lighting in the reception area as in the whole scene is well lit, what's the best settings for this? Thank you!
How many stops do you keep your ambient below a proper exposure foe a scene?
hi, did you do that 2 flash video for weddings ? if not will you ? thanks also we could see that you had a flash on your camera will you explain the purpose of that ?
Would you advise to use an umbrella as a diffuser when ceiling is too high to use as a reflector? I don’t like using direct flash without diffusers. But I’m afraid if I’ll have enough light.
Any recommendations for lighting for video for speeches? Can't exactly get a softbox in front of them. Probably need some sort of stage lighting from further away
we need the 2 and 3 light setup. Please do it. All my greetings from Burundi
When you had the other flash on camera was this just used as a trigger in this instance? Also do you always use manual or TTL for this scenario
Question.. For the second photographer, would you recommend they use an on camera flash while they are in position B during the reception? They wouldnt be able to benefit from my triggers, but they will also expose the foreground more so than the dance floor area.
Do your second shooters trigger the same lights? Or do they set up their own lights?
Question. Do you have the on-camera flash turned on, or are you only using the on-camera flash as the trigger and deactivating the flash? Thanks.
At 7:15: Don’t you want to narrow the beam of light in this scenario with the flash zoom more toward the 200mm end rather than widening it as you say? Thank you in advance for your input!
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Well this is timely for me! It's been a while since I shot a wedding, but I have a small wedding to shoot in the evening on a small local 'cruise ship' (more like a tour boat that serves dinner and waits for the fireworks). So small space & I love the idea of pinning a flash so I can move around. I see that you've still got a flash on camera as well as the pinned one. Do you have the 'trigger' mounted on camera & then the 'on camera' flash mounted on that? Thanks!
The on camera flash (OCF) itself can be the trigger, e.g. the not so expensive Godox-series or Yongnuos. If neccessary, the ocf can be used creatively as well.
very nice tuto. I have the feeling however that it should be difficult to do that alone without an assistant positioning the stands or the flash. I think my stand would always be on wrong side of people faces :-)
What temperature should you set when the ambiance is more orange or more cool what’s the rule to this?
Awesome video. Do you experience any shadow issues when placing your light stands further away from the subject? Like in the video I noticed you had your light in the back of the room. Would taller stands be better to avoid hitting any objects or people that may be blocking the subject?
Good question! Would love to hear what Pye has to say about this.
So how is the second shooter lighting things?
Outstanding pictures and explanations. Do you use the 24-70 focal length exclusively in your work?
Thanks
Look at his diagram: for the outer circle he is using the 70-200 mm lens.
Good evening sir.
Nice shots by the way.
May ask what white balance in camera you used.
I also noticed that you placed an orange gel on your flash.
Thanks in advance.
In the video at around 10:44 it says he's using custom white balance at 3600K
I saw 3500 k on the camera settings
You are the best, do you know that
What about when ur using a strobe?
Great lesson Q, why not using TTL ?
Probably in order to have more control. And he would also get more consistent results, so it would be easier for post-editing
How bright was the light set on?
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I have seen on another video on TH-cam the photographer aimed his flash away from the subject slightly tilted up and on full power, so it bounced back onto the subject
What are your views on this..tk u
What is "varying +1/60th" for shutter speed? I understand you can set a minimum shutter but I'm not sure I understand this.
I always struggle with shutter speed for dim reception rooms and trying to balance ambiance. I find I love to shoot speeches with both my 35mm AND my 70-200 to get those nice tight well lit portraits of the speaker. I find it hard to balance ambiance and have a subtle flash and not get movement or lens movement if I'm below 200th of a second with that lens so I need to rely more heavily on my flash to freeze movement which reduces ambient. Any advice on how to manage this tightrope?
You might go with a monopod and slow down the shutterspeed to 1/60 to increase the ambient light.
how you trigger the off cam flashes when you have a speedlight attached on your camera instead of a trigger?
Thanks for asking Frank
If you have a godox x2 trigger, they have a shoe on top. Handy for simultaneous onboard fill flash and ocf.
I use the Yongnuos flash series for this. The on camera flash (ocf) will be the trigger and control center for the other flashes. I think the Godox flashes can do this as well.
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Confused. The video is about using just one flash (Off camera) but you videos show that you have a flash on your camera. Doesn't that mean you are using 2 flashes? The on camera and the one on the stand?
Nope, it is all photoshop.
Great video Pye. Are you use any diffusers on the flash? If so what and if not why? Also, what flash is your second shooter using? Do they have their own pinned flash or are they on the same channel sharing the your flash?