- So you're still struggling with off camera flash,
and that's okay,
'cause today I'm gonna show you my number one trick
that I use,
to finding good light and composing the perfect shot
using my Godox AD200,
my MagMod System and High Speed Sync.
Stay tuned.
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For those of you who are new here,
my name is Moorea with Moorea Thrill Photography.
I'm a professional destination elopement photographer
based in Austin, Texas.
But traveling the globe to capture
some of the sweetest elopements in the most epic locations.
Okay, so let's get right into it.
I'm going to show you guys exactly how,
I look at light and what I do to set up my scene,
for using off camera flash.
So the first thing that I like to do is
just use your hand and all you really have to do is,
go like this,
and you can see what I have my hand right here
I have this really nice little rim light
going on from the natural light.
And my style is typically,
I like to use the natural light to accent the photo,
and off camera flash to supplement it.
So if we're looking at my hand right here,
see how like I start to get the, the light coming in here.
So if I keep turning
now we're filling my hand with natural light,
so I wanna kind of turn it to be here
and I have this nice little rim light going on.
And so that tells me this is where my subject
is going to stand.
So I'll stand here for the time being,
and that way I have a nice even surface on my face
that's not like blotchy or anything from,
sunlight coming through trees,
to properly exposed with off camera flash.
So I'm gonna turn off my video light to give you guys
a better demonstration,
and then I'm actually going to do
just like some self portrait headshots,
and I'll put the raw files linked below
so you guys can actually see them and what they look like.
So let's set up our off camera flash
because we already know where our subject is going to stand,
which is gonna be me,
and I'm gonna stand like right about.
Let me see,
right here.
And we're gonna set up our off camera flash
to come from right here,
and shine directly this way.
So setting up for off camera flash is really simple.
You just need your stand,
so I have my adapter,
and I'm just gonna put it on top of my light stand
and tighten it in.
And then we're gonna put our Godox on the light stand,
and you'll notice that I like it to keep my light
at a downward angle.
And that is primarily because I wear glasses
and some other people do too.
But when you are wearing glasses
and you're using off camera flash,
you want the light to be elevated above the person,
so it's coming down like the natural sun
but isn't creating glares in,
in the glasses.
Now that I have this on my light stand I'm gonna prop it up,
we're gonna turn on the flash.
Okay so, it's actually like,
right here if you see it.
So I'm gonna put this off,
and the modifier that I have on it currently
is just, a sphere.
And for testing out,
and making sure I've nailed the shot,
I'll keep just the sphere on there
and then you'll see me kind of add on different modifiers
as we go, to see how those affect the photo as well.
And if they, match the style that I'm looking for,
then we'll keep those modifiers on.
Now I'm going to use the flash to,
add additional light into the scene,
and that is the first take right here looked like this.
We wanna turn down the power of the flash
just a little bit,
so the second photo is right here.
And this is where we nail the exposure
so that I'm properly exposed, and the background is too,
and we're utilizing High Speed Sync
so that we still get that really nice bokeh effect.
Everything behind me is out of focus.
Now, as you can see the flash is spilling a little bit
onto my wall back here,
I personally don't like that look, it looks messy to me.
So I'm gonna add one grid to the shot
and the grids basically narrow in the spread of the light,
it's also gonna take the light power down about a stop.
So I'm gonna compensate for that
with adding little bit more power to my light
as I add a grid.
And here is the photo with me adding one grid.
And I'm gonna go ahead and show you guys
what two grids look like.
So I'm going to continue to increase the power again,
to match the exposure that we originally set,
but continue to narrow down the light.
And here is the photo with two grids.
Now these photos that I've been taking
were just used for auto white balance,
and I normally don't really shoot
with auto white balance all that much,
but if you're looking to play a little bit more
with adjusting your Kelvin
and compensating to balance that light color with gels,
check out this video right here.
It talks all about how I use gels
to adjust for the temperature, in a scene
and give really dramatic effects
it's very fun if you start going into gels.
But today I'm just going to keep the white balance
as auto and edit these photos as is.
So these are my finished photos of my head shots
from this session.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video,
and have a better understanding of how to utilize
the natural light to accent, your off camera flash photos,
and how to find that good light.
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Thank you so much for watching you guys.
If you need any help with understanding off camera flash
or have any questions, leave some comments down below.
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All right, you guys I'll see you next week.
Bye.