What's going on everyone? In this episode, we're
gonna focus on photographing
and lighting multiple subjects. We're linking up with some of
the coolest crews in New York City, starting with a group of subway performers.
We're gonna hop on the train and start off by getting some fisheye shots.
Alright whenever you're ready!
Woohoohoo!
Yo!
That was incredible!
We're now going to take a very high risk, high reward shot, I
want to get a moving subway in the background of this cool
pose. So I'm going to shoot across the platform here because
this is a really cool composition. And I'm going to
try and find the perfect shutter speed so that I can be just fast
enough to freeze their motion, yet slow enough to keep a subway
blurred out in the back.
Yo, I love the hat in the air. Oh, this is looking really sick.
All in all, an incredibly fun, productive shoots. I got so many
photos that I'm stoked on. That wouldn't have been possible
without the reliability and fast pace recycling time of the EL-1 Speedlite.
We're here on the Coney Island Pier to meet up with the
Brooklyn Fishing Club. We're gonna have a lot of fun shooting
low light group portraits, taking advantage of the EL-1's
insanely wide 14 exposure range, bringing these lights all the
way down to 1/8192nd power to balance with the ambient lights around the Pier at night.
Let the record show it's not a smart
idea to dangle your lights over the water like this, but
sometimes you got to take a risk to get that perfect lighting.
The EL-1's model lamp is incredibly helpful for getting
that perfect lighting position before you shoot your portrait.
Or in this case, helping your fishermen have light so they can tie their rig.
I have a great group shot set up right now.
I have all three of them just lined up across the water and
I'm using this 70-200 so I can have really nice compression of
this long pier.
Thanks again to the EL-1's wide exposure range, I can drop my
flash exposure down to 1/512th power, allowing me to capture
ambient lighting around the pier with a really natural look.
So to explain this lighting setup, it's a pretty simple one,
I've got my 36 inch beauty dish over here to give us some really
nice soft light. It'd be really flattering for the portrait. And
I've got one EL-1 directly behind them for a nice rim light.
So I'm going to shoot really far back with the 70-200
to get some symmetry of the pier, shoot right down it, and
just frame them up within the pier. Should look nice.
Really great.
It's been an incredibly fast paced day with so many great subjects.
We're on to our final shoot of the night with King Spider.
We got this incredible carousel here with this really
reflective glass in front. Now most photographers will be
afraid to put their flashes near this reflective glass but I'm
going to embrace it, because when you get some really nice
light bounce, they're gonna look dramatic. And we want to see a
really, really wide shot, you can take in this whole scene.
When you turn on flash exposure memory and you start E-TTL, when
you switch into manual, all of your settings are remembered. So
when you have lots of light setups, and complicated lighting
situations, you can start in E-TTL they're all automatically
balanced out. And then you switch to manual you can fine
tune. It saves you so much time and we're about to get a really sick shot.
Whenever you're ready you can send it.
Wow!
The recycle times on these Speedlites are absolutely incredible.
You can shoot high speed continuous shooting
sequences and have every single frame in the sequence perfectly lit up.
One sec.
I love making looping animations out of high speed sequences and
thanks to the EL-1's faster cycle time I can do this with
Speedlites for the first time ever.
Woo!
Yo.
Taking a great group photo is as much about good lighting and
composition as it is about embracing the beautiful energy
of the group and I think we caught a bit of that today.
I'll see y'all in the next episode.