Moorea Thill: Lighting, it is everything when it comes to photography.
Today, we're diving into my lighting kit so you can see exactly what I use for weddings,
portraits and everything I shoot.
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Moorea Thill: Okay, so if you're watching this video, chances are you're either interested
in off-camera flash or you're just looking to find a new source of light to bring into
your session.
Today, we're going into the Godox AD200 Pro, and it is the main strobe that I use for all
of my sessions.
I just upgraded my off-camera flash to this flash and I am so impressed, so impressed.
I'm going to tell you all my favorite things about the Godox AD200 Pro, as well as show
you exactly how I set it up and all the modifiers that I use with it to give tons of different
types of light to my session.
So let's dive in.
Moorea Thill: Okay, so this is the AD200 Pro.
It might look a little different right now than what you're seeing online, and that's
because I have a modifier right here.
You can see that right here.
This is a magnet and it just links directly on there like this, watch.
It just snaps right on there so that during my sessions if I want to add different modifiers,
it's really quick.
There's no unscrewing and screwing or putting all these little things on there.
Moorea Thill: Some of the things that I love about the Godox is that I used to have speedlights
for my off-camera flash and they're great, but the thing that sucks the most about using
a speedlight for off-camera flash is the recycle time feels like forever.
Especially when I'm doing something like a sunset and I need it to be quick because I
need to get the shot.
With the AD200 pro there's like virtually no recycle time.
I can just fire on each shutter, it's so nice.
I mean, when I'm at full power it does have a tiny recycle time, but it's nothing compared
to the speedlight.
It is so quick.
Moorea Thill: This is the lithium ion battery and it just pops right out, it's so easy.
It comes with a charger as well as the multiple different heads to change, but I actually
don't change out the heads that much because I have the MagMod permanently on my Godox.
The biggest change that I see with switching to Godox is the power of light.
With the speedlights, I felt like it was a little bit more variable, where I would get
my first flash of light would be great, my second flash should be a little bit less powerful,
but it'd be on the same settings.
That could've just been the way that I was using the speedlights, but with the Godox
it's really consistent.
If you look through my photos, you can see the amount of light that's being flashed is
consistent with my settings.
Moorea Thill: The four reasons why I love my AD200 Pro so much is, one, because of the
lithium ion battery, two, the refresh time is just insane, and the last reason why I
love this flash that much is a little bit different, but it's because of the MagMod.
I'm going to show you guys that right now.
When I invested in MagMod, I invested in the wedding package, which comes with a ton of
things.
But the main thing that I find myself using the most are the grids, which look like this.
Basically you just pop it on the front, everything's magnetic.
So you pop it on the front and what this does is it helps with narrowing ... If you have
a flash and it's spraying out this way, what it does is it narrows it in just a little
bit.
Then if I add a second flash, I mean a second grid, it narrows it in even more.
So when I'm shooting something like a couple or just an individual person, I typically
have two grids on there.
Moorea Thill: It also helps with the fall-off of the flash.
You'll notice a lot of times when people have no modifiers on their flash and they're directly
hitting their subject, it is super harsh and the fall-off is harsh and you can tell that
a flash has been fired.
But with grids, what it does is it makes it seem a lot softer on the edges, so it's like
you almost don't realize that an additional form of light has been added to the photo.
Moorea Thill: Now, it also comes with with creative gels.
These are Creative Gels.
Right now I have a half green and half CTO.
I use the half CTO a lot, but I don't use the green that much, I was just experimenting
with it the other day.
But it also comes with all these different colors.
I've got so many colors, pretty much any color you can think of.
It's perfect for weddings because let's say the color theme of the wedding is pink, that
one.
I'd probably use this one, but then there's purple and there's red.
I could even do two gels together to make a different color, or do ... Lighting is so
fun.
You could do a blue gel on this side and a purple gel on this side and then flash them
with regular light in the front so that they have these accent colors on the side.
There's so many fun things you can do, but that's why I like MagMod, because it makes
my life easy and it makes everything I do with flash super quick.
Moorea Thill: Right now I'm going to show you what I normally have on a session.
This would be on my lighting stand, and typically with off-camera flash, what I do is ... I'm
going to show you like this.
I don't want to flash them directly head-on, so I'll give it a little tilt and bring it
just a little bit higher so it gives the impression of that natural sunlight.
If I have my flash and it's shining on the couple, I'll typically have a grid, probably
a second grid, a half CTO, and then this, which is called the MagSphere.
What this does is it spreads the light.
So I have the grids on there, which soften the fall-off, and then I have the Sphere,
which spreads it out just a little bit more.
That's just what I've found that works best for me.
Everybody has a different style.
Moorea Thill: Okay, so if you have any questions about off-camera flash or the Godox AD200
Pro or the MagMod system, I want you to leave them below and let me know.
I'll do my best to answer them.
If you guys are interested in purchasing the Godox or checking it out on Amazon, I put
the link in the description as well for you.
Moorea Thill: Okay, guys.
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Lastly, if you guys already use the AD200 Pro, let me know in the comments below.
I want to see all you off-camera flashers on this video.
Moorea Thill: Everyone say hi to Taquito. This is my little baby, one of
two, and he wants to hang out today because he won't stop pounding on the door, huh?
Yeah.
Okay, guys.
I'll see you next week.
Bye.