How To Get Your Flash To Focus At Night | Ft. Godox V1 Flash
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- So, how do you get your flash to focus at night?
- For this video I am using the Godox V1 flash!
- You're going to want to point your flash directly forward
- When it's pitch black, there's no light, so there's nothing for your camera to catch focus on
- While you're shooting, what you'll want to do is turn on your light and point it at your subjects (so it's kind of like a spotlight)
- The flash will go off when it catches focus!
It’s called a modelling light, most speedlites actually have a focus assist beam though.
Yeah, but in really dark locations even that fumbles and hunts sometimes. The V1 modeling light is pretty powerful, to the point that people do shoots with it by itself without flash sometimes with great success.
@@jasonbodden8816 I wouldn’t necessarily agree. Having used Nikon’s Flagship speedlights for quite a while now their system works incredibly with their modelling lights. Never missed a shot due to the modelling light alone.
V1’s light is very good though. I agree with this and can recommend that you leave it on. Cheap flashes with weak focus assist and modelling lights are a no go.
Which doesn't work on mirrorless cameras since they can't see it..
@@dbauernf??? What are you talking about?
@@jonathans.3128 Yeah the assist beam helps even in pitch black situations, but mirrorless cameras can't see the lights. Only dslrs
This modeling light from the V1 is super handy for those who shoot on mirrorless bodies. The focus beam doesn’t actually “work” on mirrorless only on Dslrs for now. Hopefully one day it’ll be the case that flashes do kick out the focus beam for mirrorless cameras.
I'd go with the V1's modeling light any day over the Focus Assist beam on any other speedlight because those beams fumble in very dark locations sometimes (God knows why). The V1's modeling light is very powerful and will get you focus every time.
@@jasonbodden8816That's completely unusable in fast paced nightlife enviroments where you're bouncing the flash off the walls. Am I supposed to lower the flash down between every 2 shots to help the camera focus them move the flash back to whereever I originally wanted to have it?
One of the V1 accessories is a bounce card and that directs the modeling light forward without having to bend forward the flash @@dbauernf
I just hold the shutter in burst mode, the first couple flashes help the sensor focus, works everytime.
Woah I'm so impressed by the modeling light damn on a hotshoot flash
af-s und turn on turn on the auto focus assit beam on the flash.
That was a great tip, good looking
Wowww, i never thought of that lol!! Thanks for the video 👍🏽🙌🏾
It's a Modeling Lamp! I just bought mine. Thanks
There’s a mode that should be on a majority of cameras i don’t know if it’s called something different but for canon if you disable the expo simulation it over exposes your image on your screen so you can see what your doing in either low light or no light just a tip if the modeling light doesn’t do it for some
very useful thanks !
happy to help! 😊
The benefit of this brand. Nice
Damn it I could have used it earlier yesterday 😂 cus have save me sometime
Your camera has a tiny light that does this for you already. And you have a setting called Low Light AF Priority that also helps with this using a wide aperture for a split second when focusing. Your welcome..👌💯
Thank you 😊
I love when my flash focuses
I am learning photography.
I bought used Sony a7s2.
New 28-75 f2.8 lens
I need to get my first flash.
I want it to be portable and lightweight so I can take it with me while travelling.
I will be doing street photography and portraits/people.
Please suggest if I should go for on camera speed light or off camera strobe.
And what flash model do you suggest?
How much power flash would be enough to shoot outdoors?
I would want to take this flash with me easily and during travelling.
What are your suggestions for flash and flash power? Independent strobe light or camera mounted speed light?
Thank you
Thanks
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To proper focus using flash assistant known as red light you just have to put camera into AF-S 😅
ayo we have the same name :) thx for the tip!
Use focus assist that’s modelling light
What if your flash dont have that? When what do you do?
you can take a small led light with you
So do most hotshoe flashes have a "stay on" function? Or somethign like it?
OHHHHH THATS WHAG MODELING LIGHTS FIR
Im looking at getting v1 but im not sure if i can pair it with my tt350 😮
yes you can
Thats what the infrared light is for....thats shes covering up!!
doesn't work on mirrorless cameras
How to change the color of that modelling light?
You cant
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The camera does the focus and then fires the flash…
You never heard about af flash beam ?
Flashes don’t focus they simply set the beam for spread of light based on focal length of the lens on the camera
flash doesn't focus
I AM TRYING TO FIND a solution but nowhere on the internet can I find an answer. 1st of all!! When you shoot with the V1 godox flash, does the modeling light come out on its own so you can focus??? Is it like prefiring so you can focus and then the flash fires off? If yes, thats amazing. But from my understanding the V1 has to be manually activated and it stays like this the whole time. Meaning that if you are in a nightclub or at a night event photography, you will be like a firefly at the whole event and that sucks. You don't wanna be the main dish for someone's event, you will be noticed enough with the flash that will go off all the time.
2nd, this is not a question but information for MIRRORLESS photography with flash. I use a Sony A7 III which means that it does not read the red focus assist beam of the flashes. But with godox there is a solution which is... you buy for example Godox tt685s and the transmitter the godox xt2s. For some weird reason the x2ts sends a bigger red focus assist beam and it works on the mirrorless camera (AT LEAST ON THE sony a7 III & A7 II) . That's how you focus at night with flash photography on a mirrorless camera.
It's weird how there is no flash in the market for the mirrorless cameras.
Or you could just focus
I think she knows what she meant to say but it just came out all wrong. She probably does know flashes don't focus..........at least I hope she does lol.
Flashes dont focus.😂😂
Nikon SB 800 has a modeling light. It’s better than this.
I just take a flashlight to all my shoots where it might be dark lol
Lol love that
I have a simpler solution. It’s called manual mode
"when it's pitch black, there's no light, so there's nothing for your camera to catch focus on". Seems like no one actually watched the video. She knows the camera is confusing not the flash.
Girl...trim those claws back a little.
Your flash cannot focus. Sorry.
The flash doesn't 'Go Off' the flash is triggered.
Terrible picture 😊
Hey girl! Have you used the Godox flash off camera on a stand before? I’m a bb photog and learning more about flash. Great content btw! I’ve learned so much from you. 🙏🫶🏼