hey guys my name is Francisco Hernandez and today I'm gonna show you an inside
look into a portrait shoot that I did with my friend Eli and his friend Elizabeth
where we used some pretty beginner off-camera flash gear. Although we
intended issue on a bright sunny day because you have more possibilities in
the types of photos you can create the day of the shoot came and it ended up
being a cloudy overcast gloomy kind of day but that gave me a great opportunity
to show you guys just exactly what I would recommend to anybody starting off
camera flash. Before I continue I did want to state that I know I'm not using
the most budget camera and lens the sony A7RIII and Sony 85 G master, I did want
to focus just on the off-camera flash gear in this video because typically
when people ask me about off-camera flash they're already invested in a nice
camera and lens so it kind of makes sense in that aspect but if you guys are
interested in seeing what I can do with budget off-camera flash gear and a
budget camera and lens that video is coming up so keep an eye out for that.
So when it comes to off-camera flash all you really need is a light stand a light
maybe a bracket in case you're using a speed light or speedlite shaped strobe
a modifier and a transmitter that's gonna enable the camera to communicate
between the camera and light to know exactly when to fire.
Light stands typically vary in price depending on the material that the stand is
constructed from and the height so if you want something that's very strong and
has a lot of heighth to it then it's probably a cost more than something
that's not as strong and not as high so you definitely have to consider those
two aspects when figuring out what kind of stand you want to get the bracket
that I mentioned that you would need if you're using a speed light or speedite
shaped strobe is gonna be the Godox s type bracket and it's pretty
much the same design anywhere online and it can be found for around twenty
dollars the reason why I recommend the godox s type mount as opposed to
the older design of the speed light umbrella holder is because the Godox
S type mount has an umbrella holder as well as a Bowens mount that allows me to
use any of the Bowens mount modifiers that I use with my strobes with my speed
lights as for the lighting the best thing that you can do when learning off
camera flash is use a manual speed light and the one that I recommend is the
godox TT 600 or as it's known by adorama as
the flashpoint R2 Zoom manual speed light and the reason why I recommend this guy
is because it's not that expensive at around $60 and it has a built in
transceiver which is a transmitter and a receiver which makes connecting to it
wirelessly and controlling it very easy what's awesome about the Godox
TT600 is that it's able to be used with a multitude of different camera
systems just so long as the transmitter matches the camera system.
In the BTS footage I'm about to show you my friend Eli is shooting with a Canon version
transmitter because he's shooting with Canon and I'm using a Sony version
because I'm shooting with Sony so now that you have a light the thing that you
need to communicate between the light and the camera is a transmitter and the
one that I recommend is the godox x1 or known as the r2 by Adorama and the
reason why I recommend this transmitter is because it's the cheapest one that
they offer and it has high-speed sync and TTL capabilities so now that you have a
light stand bracket light and transmitter you're pretty much set to
start using off-camera flash but if you're interested in getting soft light
like in the photos I'm going to show you in today's video then what I highly
recommend you get is a 31 by 31 inch foldable softbox I highly recommend this
softbox for a couple of different reasons
but the first is that it puts out nice beautiful soft light it's able to do
this because of the two diffusion panels that are inside but keep in mind that
each diffusion panel is not only softening the light but it's also
cutting down the light but one stop so if you find yourself in a situation where
you need more power then taking off one or both of the diffusion panels it's
gonna help give you that power back but you'll be sacrificing the soft light the
second reason why I recommend this softbox is because it folds down nice
and small which is perfect if you're traveling with a small bag and it's
actually because of this reason why I bring this softbox whenever I go travel
anywhere the third and final reason why I recommend the softbox is because it's
cheap it can be found for around 20 dollars by itself or around 30 to 34
dollars with that Godox S type bracket that I mentioned earlier alright
so by this point you should have a nice beginner off camera flash setup but if
you ever feel like you want to advance your off-camera flash game then I will
be leaving links to not just this beginner set up but an intermediate and
an advanced set up in the description area below hope you guys enjoy the video
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week all right take care guys and I see in the next one =)
the last shot we did any recording