Speedlite Crash Course: Mastering Portraits and Action Sports With Small Strobes
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- čas přidán 12. 01. 2014
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Tyler Stableford reveals how to maximize your lighting setups with Speedlites. Working wirelessly with the Canon 600EX-RT flashes, Tyler will show you how to create dramatic lighting with just a single flash as well as with multiple flashes and a variety of modifiers. - Věda a technologie
This video is a bit long, but I found it very worthwhile to watch. It's a good reminder that setup takes time, and that even competent photographers need trial, error and adjustment to get things just right. Balancing 4 strobes with different modifiers and zoom settings in a small space is not something that you get right in 5 minutes, and I'm glad this wasn't edited down to pretend that it is.
First B&H video I've watched (though not finished watching yet) and wanted to say it is excellent. In line with other comments I would say this is down to Tyler and his style. Your teacher is possibly THE most important thing and can turn you off learning about a subject. Plus his work is exciting and what he is doing with the cyclist was great - for what he showed us, so transparently and fact I can relate to it because I snap cyclists and it's just what I want to learn
One of the best strobe tutorials I've seen. Very inspiring as well. Looking forward to another one by Tyler Stableford. Thanks.
Thanks for this class on speedlites! It was so helpful. Of the hundreds of videos I've watch about speedlites, this was the most helpful and made more sense to me, making feel like I can do this. Especially your point about under exposing by decreasing your shutter speed and OK to use TTL mode. You've saved my life!! :-)
I rarely watch the longer B&H series, because of time constraints, but I'm glad I spent a couple of minutes on this one.
Thanks B and H. This tutorial was free and so was the advise. I general, I think it opened my eyes to some ideas I had never thought of; the possibilities of rapid fire flash for multiple shots for example. Thanks for helping amateurs like me.
Informative. I've watched most BH event space videos and I love how this one hi-lights his workflow.
I really love how he teaches how to use a speedlight using a progressive "real world" method. I learned more about flash use in this less than 2 hours video than in any other course or seminar.
Just made more sense to me also . . .
A very informative flash use tutorial, thanks Tyler!
Love these how to courses with actual equipment and photographers.
The best tutorial thus far by B&H. More of Tyler please.
I love the "ground up" explanation approach showing us how to set things up not just the results.
Interesting video . Decided to watch as i am going to Switzerland in February and wanted to improve my snowboarder photographs and am attending a seminar on strobing soon but your example of 2 assistants and 9 strobes is just not practical for me. Still looking for an answer as to how i can use 1 strobe . The idea of shooting at the subject backlit does provide an opening point though .
These are amazing videos. Keep up the great work!
Great video, however it would have been nice to see the set up as well of the lights. A little hard to see where lights were situated in relation to the subject except in the photo.
I like his workshop method :) Very informative and inspires me to try out flash photography.
Epic tutorial. I learned a ton!
This was a great tutorial! A lot of information to digest!
Pros: lots of good information. Liked the discussion on adding shadows to increase drama. Discussion on setting ambient light first was excellent.
Cons: lighting setups were done in the dark greatly reducing their value. I wish I knew people to borrow up to 9 600RT speedlites.
Excellent video I learned a lot. Thanks.
Open your mind in flash photography. -- Best tutorial--
Good Show.
nino
Thanks B&H! I learned a lot, but do wish we could've seen where he was placing the lights on the left :)
Thanks for this one. Grtz. from the Netherlands.
Lots of great information here, however needs to be a little more organized in it's presentation. Also, I don't believe 9 speed lights constitutes a 'lightweight' setup.
I desperately need a speedlight for my Canon rebel t100. A used one o would be amazing
Great video
Hello
I have the 600ex-rt flash, camera is a canon 6D.
I am trying to use my 600ex-rt as a slave just to fire of the light from my Bowens flash unit.
I just want to use it a hair light, can I do that if so help please.
Excellent!!
Is there a part two where he talks about lighting action? This entire seminar was on portraits
Hanna you are great. Your peace of mind and determination radiates.
nino
thank you b+h for all you do.
Most welcome and thank you for watching.
I think it would have been a little better had the photographer set his camera to small raw, the would have transferred to the PC more quickly. Earlier, I was thinking the old image was the new one, puzzling to see what changed.
I use Sanyo XX Eneloop 2400 mAh batteries in my three 600EX-RT lights (and love them). They hold a charge for a long time so you don't have to worry about "topping off" before a shoot. Here is a link to them at B&H www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/766725-REG/Sanyo_XX_Powered_by_Eneloop.html
as he is shooting that model with her bike. I have no idea how he is getting that camera to focus in the dark.
i wish there is description on light modifiers and stands that he is using and all other accessories.
Hi, please contact Tyler Stableford's studio directly with your question at kate@tylerstableford.com. Thanks for watching.
I like this guys teaching style!
Watching him fumble with the flash power settings and (needlessly) cut the studio lights are more reasons he should use a light meter. Good base settings and ratios have nothing to do with the final image and are rather just more efficient workflow in the light setup...Final tuning, adjustment, and artistic input are still very much a requirement.
I never heard you say what metering mode you were using - evaluative (matrix), or spot when the flashes were in ETTL mode.
Hi, please contact Tyler Stableford's studio directly at kate@tylerstableford.com. Thanks for watching.
B and H Hi Jay, thank you for your question. I was using Evaluative metering mode when the Speedlites were in ETTL mode.
Cheers
very cool presentation, but aren't we talking like $3k in speedlights?
"lightest setups that I can"
9 flash guns
Devin Chaves off fto
...and assistants.
Very Nice lighting tutorial. Just one thing... 80%of the shots are out of focus. It might help to use a focus assist light when is this pitch dark. Even the flashlight on your phone can be very helpful.
Too bad the left side of the instruction stage was dark, should not have turned off the panel. Otherwise great info.
This tutorial made me justify using high powered strobes for outdoor and continuous light in the studio... who would use 9 speed lights ..They forgot to show how many times they had to change the batteries on that outdoor shoot..
Would be nice if Nikon had a flash unit like this.
Good video but how many times does he say INTERESTING it drove me mad
I really felt that this kinda dragged out. I was not made to feel like he knew what he was doing, if I took that long to get one good shot with my clients I would of been out of business long ago. I understand being creative and seeing what happens but you have to be able to get the shot as well. He really didnt look like he could grasp the technical of lighting
ironic the subject is about lighting and video is so dark....
Stupid question of the day....What's the difference between a flash, speedlight and a strobe?
A speedlight, also called a flashgun or hot shoe flash, is an add-on flash. It sits in the hot shoe slot at the top of the camera.
But with a receiver and a transmitter, a speedlight functions much like a strobe. You can use off-camera flash (OFC).
Some high-end speedlights have this ability built-in. Most need a transmitter to use as an OFC. With the right accessories, a speedlight can pull double duty. It can act as an on-camera flash and then as off-camera lighting. >Mark
The Speedlite doesn't calculate the flash exposure, the camera's metering system does all the work. So saying that the Canon 600 is better at ETTL than the older 580 EXII's is misleading.
The speed in which the radio link transmits the exposure compensation may be faster and more accurate than an infrared system, would probably be more accurate. But buying a set of radio transmitters for your older Speedlites such as the Godox X-Pro system is going to be an awful lot cheaper and more flexible than buying a very overpriced set of new Canon RT600 Speedlites.
Or just buy a single Lithium Battery strobe such as the Godox AD600, which has much more power than a bank of four Speedlites.
Don't get conned.
I was hoping that Tyler'd let the model sit down until she was needed, give her a break from standing.
+ucheucheuche, lol, When your at work you do what you have to do and sometimes you don't get to sit down until the end of the day. I'm sure the model is being paid for her time.
I wish pro photographers stop using "wrapping light". Light travels through straight rays and they don't bend! The effect of a large source in relation to the subject size is what gives the effect of "wrapping" ...
He does not really create an impression that he knows what he is teaching there....
I found it boring!...long drawn out to achieve little result.
I like those tutorials a lot - but look at the lighting!! It is terrible.
The video is so dark you can't see the position of any of the lights ever. That makes the majority of this video a huge waste of time.
I think the worst part of this video is the fact that this is less of a lecture or a "course" and more "Photographer does trial-and-error for an hour and forty minutes". You don't need to have a course to do that, you can go home and do that all by yourself and probably learn a ton more than watching this on CZcams or even in the classroom. He really taught me nothing I couldn't have figured out for myself by doing my own trial and error for two hours.
Lynn remember', your not the only one watching these videos. I appreciate that the way that you learn may be different from some of us but truthfully watching someone work through their process of shooting is very helpful to us visual learners. Just be carful about dismissing something just because it was not helpful to you, it was actually very helpful to me.
I'm sorry, but that was a waste of time and terrible lighting.
Butch Davis We appreciate your input on this video and we
will look into what you had to say.
Just... wow.
I hear you Vospi. People are used to watching the real slick presentations where everything is already set up and a nice PowerPoint bangs through it flawlessly. Tyler Stableford is hands down one of the best photographers in the world and he took 2 hours to show exactly what it takes to build a shot. It's a lot of trial and error, lots of subtle adjustments (and I mean subtle, it can be hair pulling) until you finally nail your vision. If you didn't take something of value from this video, you're probably not cut out for this kind of work.
For everyone complaining about the model having to "endure" standing during this, chill. She's a world class cyclist, she can handle being on her feet for 2 hours. Normally you set all this up (at least the first shot) with an assistant before the model arrives, but that's not practical in a teaching setting.