On Camera Direct Flash Tutorial // How-To Guide
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- Have you tried using on-camera flash for your studio portraits? As a professional photographer, I've always been taught to take the flash off camera to create more directional light. In this video of on camera direct flash tutorial for lighting, I will show you how to work quickly and easily using on-camera flash to create some very unique and interesting portraits.
For this shoot, I used the new FJ80II - bit.ly/3H60a3E
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0:00 Introduction
1:25 Gear Used
2:30 Settings
2:47 First Shot
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Thank you very much. As always your explanations are clear and simple. And your final images are inspiring and challenging.
You are very welcome
Great job explaining the best-use cases for on camera direct flash Sal!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video and explanation Sal. I look forward to your videos.
Ty so much.
Quick and to the point, I always look forward to learning new tips and techniques from you!!!
Glad you like them!
Thank you for that great tip. Will try it out asap 👍
Have fun!
Love the information can’t wait to try it out
i think youll love it
Great job Alonna!
She crushed it for sure.
Absolutely beautiful portraits!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great vid Sal 🔥🔥🔥
Appreciate it!
Awesome! Thank you Sal. I am going to practice this with my J80 II...wow, you just gave me bang for my bucks with this flash. LOL. Have a great day.
Glad you enjoyed it.
fantastic on camera flash shots, very inspiring.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks, Sal, for reminding us photogs that on camera flash can deliver incredible results! This segment will surely push me to "break out" my OCF and create beautiful images!
You bet!
On camera flash and shooting wide for portrait shoots. Breaking all types of made up rules and I'm here for it. Thank you.❤️
truth!
Those looked great! I don't think at first glance I would have called those direct flash. Gonna give it a try!
You should!
Great encouraging video.. How do you keep the on camera flash from making the images look flat. Yours don't look flat, so I need to know how you compensated for that. I shoot a lot of outdoor events and use the on camera flash in ettl as fillin - I have used a small modifier (godox AK-R1 dome) that seems to create a flat look ... is a bare flash better for eliminating the flat look or doesn't it matter when using a dome ???
hmm great question... i think the key here is im shooting indoors and darkening the background which is also very close to the subject... so there is that cool halo shadow effect... this would not be possible outdoors in a brighter situation... there, i think the light behaves more like fill light. thats my gut instinct. hth.
Beautiful images. Did you have the camera doing red-eye reduction mode?
I did not. and ty very much!
Hi Sal, I am a bit confused, to get your dark ambient you quoted iso 50 at 1/30 sec with exposure compensation at -1 .5 to 2 stops, you then changed exposure compensation to -2 stops to further darken the background which you quoted still was iso 50 at 1/30., no change? Surely this should be Iso 50 at 1/60 sec. I assume because you are an excellent photographer this is just a typo mistake, please confirm, Michael
you are correct. the video editing team copied the wrong settings... the original one was at 1/20 and the darkened one was at 1/30. the rest appear to be correct.
The latest firmware for the FJ80ii has added a standby feature that will allow you to check the ambient light exposure image in your mirrorless camera viewfinder or screen with the flash on camera and powered on.
great point!
Amazing. Why you don't get flash hotspot on the model's face?
great question!! and worth pointing out.. its usually one of two things... 1) shitty makeup either by your subject or the HMUA and a professional makeup artist should know better... they should not be using a mineral based makeup because minerals like zinc - will reflect light. and or 2) oily skin with or without crappy makeup. :)
Like the not so subtle marketing of your new marketing company
lol.
Did you stay in Apeture Priority - under exposed by two stops for the whole shoot?
i did. more or less... might have moved a 1/4 stop either way to get the look i wanted, but yes.
Beautiful shots. At 5:20 I start seeing multiple catch lights in her eyes. What’s going on there?
prob the windows behind me... i highlight in the video we have natural light and i take a test shot to darken it. i talk about the ambient in the room. at 2:56
I think the problem with on-camera flash typically is specular reflection. Your model obviously had great makeup. Do you agree that non-reflective makeup is key to making this technique work?
100% non-reflective makeup is CRUCIAL! so much so - every makeup artist we work with we instruct to use MATTE based makeup and nothing with minerials in it - because minerals are hyper reflective. so you are spot on!!
@@SalCincotta1 Thank you so much for replying, and for reinforcing my understanding here. Love your videos!
I think on camera flash and wide angle distortion has become acceptable because everyone is used to seeing iPhone shots
Yeah you’re prob not wrong.
@@SalCincotta1good news for us, when the kids see themselves in a non-selfie photo, they absolutely love them. They just don’t know why 😂