Overpower the Sun with 1 simple speedlite
Vložit
- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Shooting in broad daylight with a flash is always a challenge. Even for larger strobes with more juice because the sun is such a powerful force to try and fight. But can we do this with a single speed light in broad daylight? Of course we can, watch this video to find out how!
Great to see a tutorial using basic equipment. Most flash videos use stupidly expensive studio strobes like Godox, with a 4 foot wide softbox set up by an assistant! Really useful for amateur photographers to see what's achievable with a basic speedlight and modifier as that's all most of us have. Thanks for this 🙂
It's my pleasure!!!
I prefer my 600 watt flash. It’s big to lug around but man the look is unique
You think Godox is expensive? That's on the cheaper side of things, my friend.
Good advice and presentation. Thanks for letting me know about step up rings. I have 77mm filters and a new 50mm f1.4 which takes 58mm filters. I'm now getting the conversion rings so I can use all my filters on my new lens
Great video, short, sweet, to the point and very useful. Thanks for the great tips.
Nice tutorial and guidance too. Thanks a lot for sharing like this type of video. We expect more useful videos from you.
Thanks for a great video. Nice presentation and lots of useful information. Cheers
Thank you. The best video I have watched about ND filters and flashes! Simple and direct. Congrats !
Thank you!!!!
Great video. I enjoyed and learned a lot. Thank you
Well explained. Thank you.
Great video, very helpful information.
Like the way you explained and demonstrated of the whole process. Thank you very much
My pleasure!
You did a good job on showing how to use a camera flash...thanks
Really appreciate your lesson, thanks a lot for the help
Glad it helped
thanks for the tip on the step-up-rings.
Cool video man! Thanks for sharing the knowledge✌🏾
Ulric Cajuste My pleasure. Glad it helped.
Thanks for sharing I did enjoy it
Welldone and thanks for your video. From Cape Town, South Africa.
Thanks for the feedback mate!
Great job. I thought about using ND filter to reduce the shutter speed too but I'm not sure. Then I found this video so useful.
My pleasure I am glad I could help!
Nice video, vary well explained 👍
thanks, ,very nice and informative video
This tutorial is still the goat🐐
You're a proper teacher bro👌🏽
Great video
Thanks a lot ❤
Such a great educational gem! Greetings from Bangladesh!
Thanks so much! glad you enjoyed it,
Nice presentation i just bought an ND filter and im just starting to use it..
😍😍👍🏻 your #1 fan right here!!!
Thanks a ton love!
If I put higher stop nd filter it will also darken the background, if my flash sync speed limit is reached, I would end up jacking up iso correct?
My panasonich ha 1/250 sync speed . I never use high speed sync. I stop down or use a nd filter. A speed lite can do a lot if you work this way.
I know it's hard to believe it's a film camera from 1998
5.5 fps.
With on bord flash 1/300.
With my extra flash/speed light 1/12000
The minolta alpha a9
All metal structure and weather sealed.
It's the accumulation of all that came before it.
Digital was just kicking off. Wich makes this camera the last of its kind and the king of the 35mm film slr.
The flash speed on this old 35mm film camera is just crazy for the time.
I have never shot anything at 1/12000.
so ummm...what's your point?
@@fixxforlife1569 it's just a good 35mm camera.
@@jerryrichards8172 There are lots of good 35 mm cameras out there. So what's the point of mentioning that one in particular as as a comment for this particular video?
@@fixxforlife1569 looks like
, I was probably talking about the 300th sync speed on a old camera then went off topic over a camera I just wanted to share.
Awesome 😎
Informative
Hey! Thank you for your video! I have a question. I like this technique but since im often in a big city with a lot of people there is no way to set up off camera flash. Is it possible to het the same effect with on camera flash? Can you give some tips? Thnx!
Hi there. You sure can get the same effect. However there won’t be much shape or dimension in your light unless you bounce the off camera flash onto a reflective surface such as a reflector or white surface. Doing this however will cut down more power from your flash.
Its like bringing a knife to a gunfight. No thanks!
If it's all you got, you'll be dead if you don't even try
To each his own I guess :)
Thanks for sharing but I will like to point out a couple of discrepancies in your tutorial. At 10:00, you were trying to open up the aperture from f/11 using a 5-stop ND filter. The difference between f/11 and f/2 is 5 stops but you ended up using f/4 instead which is not mathematically consistent.
I believe you must be using a 3-stop ND filter instead.
At 10:50, you moved on to using the "13-stop ND filter" where the settings 1/200 @ iso 100 @ f/1.6 is used with 1/8 +0.7 stop of flash power from a distance of about 5-6 feet away from the subject. In my many years of taking portraits using ND filters in high noon, I have never used a 13-stop ND filter or heard of anyone use one in a typical portrait session. If you were using a Canon 5D with an optical viewfinder, you will not be able to focus or see anything through the viewfinder. Normally, for a powerful Speedlite at full power, it is able to expose properly at iso 100 @ f/16 from 8 feet away. To use a 13-stop ND filter with the settings of iso 100 @ f/1.6 with 1/8 +0.7 stop of flash power, the flash needs to be about 0.5 feet away from the subject!
I have calculated that it is more likely that you were using a 6-stop ND filter instead.
thank you.
I think your correct. 13 stops of ND that is more than the 10 stops in Lee filter which they called The Big stopper. He will not be able to see anything and focus for that matter on a optical view finder.I'm not sure when using mirrorless cameras and nd filter. I think turning off the exposure preview will let you see the image at normal exposure similar to viewing the image in the view finder normally as if there is no ND filter attached.
The comment I was looking for.
With a 6 stops filter (or darker) and a DSLR camera you will not be able to autofocus (especially with wide apertures) or see anything through the viewfinder. That's a fact!
@@danielfriasfotografia there is no need to autofocus after putting on an ND filter for the scenarios used in this video
why are you referring to flashes in terms of watts per second, which is wrong, instead of watts seconds (or joules).
I am curious as to how well you camera can autofocus with the 5stop ND filter on? Do you need a top of the range camera?
Just manual focus, as long as your camera has peaking it's easy
With a 5 stops filter (or darker) and a DSLR camera you will not be able to autofocus (especially with wide apertures) or see anything through the viewfinder. That's a fact.
F11 to f2 is 5 stops which I assume is why you chose a 5 stops ND filter. However, instead of choosing f2 you chose f4 instead. Is that so you can under expose the ambient by 2 stops?
No. He said the wrong thing by accident.
i still use on cam flash and 135 mm lens
Get the flash off camera!
How much power would be needed to shoot full power? Could it be done with 2-3 speed lights?
You could easily do this with 2-3 speedlights but even with 1 + ND filter as I demonstrated in this video.
@@photos-fera7392 sorry. I meant to ask how much power is needed overpower the sun when shooting a full body shot?
The jacket thing was annoying, was it cold ??
Yes. Very.
@@photos-fera7392 ok understandable then😊
❤❤❤
You’re not overpowering the sun, (good luck with that!) you’re underexposing ambient light…
Clearly. It’s a figure of speech. But thank you.
F/11 to f/2 is 5 tops. Not f/4.
You’re right. My mistake.