in this episode will take a look at the Profoto B1
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Mark Wallace hi everybody welcome to another episode in exploring photography
I Mark Wallace
with the neighbor to do some things a little bit of a departure for me i wanna
talk about one product that i think is amazing
and the reason for that is I think this is something that is going to
revolutionize the way that portrait photographers location shooters wedding
photographers
all those times people that mean off-camera flash is very powerful
on location the way that they work and the reason for that this is a
a model I is the Profoto be one is 500 watt seconds
its battery-powered is Kayla battery right here on the side he cannot
add/remove and it uses through the lens metering
other words you can now have four studio quality flash with all the power and all
the benefits and all the light modifiers and everything
without the use of a light meter it's all automatic you can use exposure
compensation you can set light ratios everything
from your camera and ADM automatically adjusts everything
that means that you can take this guy on location shoot a wedding
should a portrait a session or whatever you need to do and you don't need to use
a light meter which is
up totally a game-changer specifically for wedding
shooters its own to talk a little bit about I'm how this is how you can use
this
and we're gonna go over just really quickly the features of this now if you
want all the features in the pricing and all that kinda stuff
make sure you i subscribe to Adorama TV so in a product reviews
at tackle a bit more about that and at the end of a learning center
they'll be more articles on how this is used in
and all that kinda stuff but I'm basically it's
it's so simple to use this light I'm not sure it needs an entire
episode but we're gonna do it anyway so the way this works is on the back on
this
ahead there are some buttons here and if you're familiar with the proper to D one
in the studio
it works very similarly to that and turn it on you just push and hold test
this is powered up and now you're ready to go that's pretty much all you have to
do is turn it on
it's ready to go you turn on your cam when you start shooting but there some
other options for you if you want to shoot in full manual mode
you can do that if you want to use this and I without
the a remote so this is the a remote as the TTL remote that you need to be also
purchase the prime your camera
they can also trigger this using a sync cable I
or I also the a remote now the nice thing is this has eight channels
and it has groupings and so you can put this in Group A B and C can set
delights in different groups to I control your key like your hair lace
separation light cetera
that's all that's built then you can control all that with this all sync
button
as also has a modeling light nice thing about that I turn this on a swirl it
around you can see
that this has a modeling light that you can use in the studio or on location
and it's an LED modeling light and so that's not gonna drain the battery
really rapidly
and so you've got a lot abuse out on this matter this on the side
and the nice thing is this thing I hear this matter just popped right on and off
you can see how much battery life it has been hidden check button
and you cannot have several these and so if you're a heavy duty shooter
just get a couple batteries and bring that out and and my experience I'm
getting
I'm about 200 for PowerShot on this battery but I'm rarely shooting at full
power because this is 500 watt seconds
and that's about 10 speedlights all packed into this is very very powerful
a really understand how this works all we're gonna do something to bring in a
model
I'm a setup and shoot show you how easy this issues and you understand
why this is a game-changer Serena do that right now always been joined by
Alexis on our show you exactly how easy it is to use the Profoto B1 system so
me walk you through what I've done over here on my camera I have the
a remote thats air TTL remote and this allows me control all the flashes
remotely with my camera and let enables the TTL system that through the lens
metering
I have my key light here now the nice thing about these is all the light
modifiers that you've come to know and love
with the pro forma system are available to use I turn a beauty dish on here
to soften the light and I've said this in group a
so I can I control a.m. be separately back here
I've setup a a second light with no modifier
at all missus is gonna help us bland lax with the back in a little bit miss at
the group be
not sure how this works so now there's a miserable here my camera
and the first thing I did shooting in an environment like this
is a need to balance the ambient light with my flash in normal you have to use
metering and do I can step
so all I did for years I'm shooting in full manual mode and I set my shutter
speed at 200
because that's my sync speed I can go any faster than that and I pointed back
at those trees right there
and I just dialed in my aperture to F 8 and that's gonna give me a nice balance
background that the ambient light Lexus sitting in the shade del
it's only see what happens we have no flashing also I've turned the flashes of
and like to have you share a smile they're beautiful and i'm taking a
picture here
and you can see she totally under exposed but the background is expose
correctly
and so we need to correct that and need at a flash
here's the beauty in this I'm gonna do here as an intern
on my system here and what I've done is
I only have Groupe onto just a beauteous that's all I've done
to turn that on I love being able to do that right from my camera
and no metering no metering at all I'm just turned it on
and let's look right at me give me a smile are beautiful
love that and now we can look it up right out the camera
I've got a nice balance shot where the ambient light
and the like from a flash just blended seamlessly and I look at this I think
term
this is sorta looks like she's being cut and paste pasted into the background in
Photoshop
someone to do something there that sorta that blends those two things together
the ambient light with
the light from my flash so what are my favorite tricks is to add a light from
behind
disorder and I would make it look like some that sunlight is streaming in
it's all up to hear someone to turn on that second lights I going here to my
and my a remote TTL I hate group B
and in turn it on that's all I have to do and now let's give another smile
I love that an hour out there and now look now we have that just little
edge in light on her shoulder and her hair everything blends together so
nicely
and that's all there is to it now but i wanna do some different things I want a
little bit more cake and the key light
I can do that I can go in here I can hit group a I can turn
energy out just a little bit get a little bit more punch i doing a lot so
you can sort of see
how this works Minister overexposed quite a bit
select a great having excellent so I just punch a lot more light
eyes are like the result is that so it looks pretty good
and then when I can do as I can start playing with that power to change all
the lights all at once
all they have to you do is use my flash exposure compensation on my camera
I'll hit that I'm gonna take both them up by not to stop so everything's gonna
be overexposed met
just for fun although this when a blind you alright
I desist well and you can see that there is way too much light but you can see
how that works
I just want a little touch light I would take this to about one stop
under what's correct and so this is just be a kiss to light their egos beautiful
and you can see that yeah she's a little bit under expert let me go back up to
about
at 3 and a two-thirds ever stop
now after shooting here you can see that this is great and you one more shallow
miss my thinking that you have linking
there you go now everything is working great and you see that as
easy to manipulate your flash is right from your camera
everything's ready to go and all the stuff that you've known and loved from
your speedlights
works exactly the same with the new prefer to be one system and so I love it
I mean take a couple more pictures and I'll wrap things up weld
well
there's so much alexis there was a lot of fun shooting pictures the thing I
love about these is that you can do exactly what we just did you turn on
and you just start shooting right out of the gate and so that you and he is a
light meter
and their 500 watt seconds which means that you can overpower the Sun
use these in bright sunlight novels any environment that you need to
and you have full control using either manual mode or
the point is using TTL and so that's the beauty of these
and he's gonna be shipping in December for all the prices and all the links to
these products just look right underneath your view watching on YouTube
and you can see links to the products and you can also read articles at the
Adorama Learning Center and if you want more information about the use the tech
specs and
the flash rations and all that kinda stuff that's gonna be coming soon
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thanks again Alexis for being here today and thank you for watching I'll see
again
next time
well thank you so much alleges that a lot of fun shooting a shot
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