Mixing Flash and Ambient Light Part 2

[cmstudios11]

lol voice activated stand! 

[garym5]

He always sounds like a kids program presenter...

[qdrutb]

where's the groom?

[mieszkowski11]

Very dated.... yet 2009?

[Eli666Ms]

nothing is in focus but the names of your equipement..

[danelson12]

Good video, I hope this isn't an ignorant question, but for your white balance in camera are you using daylight or flash?

[aeroub]

This seems more like an infomercial than anything...

[a10ace]

@aeroub send us a link to your video?

[Ceasan]

Very good video, very clear, I have one question however:

Why use a handheld light meter???

Can you not use the DSLR light meter and hit exposure lock?

Is this not quicker than using the light meter to meter the background then setting the shutter speed/aperature of the DSLR in manual mode???

Thanks for posting...

[Solarfactor]

@Ceasan A handheld light meter is more accurate than your camera's built-in meter. With a handheld meter you will also be able to establish what your camera settings need to be within a few seconds. No messing about. Just get down to the business of taking pictures. :D

[azztuzz1o]

WHERE'S THE AUDIO I CAN'T BARELY HEAR ANYTHING.OTHER THAT THAT IT'S A GOOD TUTORIAL.THANKS PALE

[chuda99]

I love this video. Thanks for the information!

[ericamandaadventures]

Hilarious! Great Videos. Very Helpful!

[roglowe]

Any minute now the wedding event manager is going to ask him to hurry up.........

[prmass1]

where is that porno soundtrack from

[testigodelsur]

quadra is grate but this photographer is realy bad

[timetotravel]

another great vid!

PS voice activated stand--now that's funny

[timetotravel]

another great vid!

[GamerManni]

Thank you really much for this Educational Video! :)

[rylabone]

Thanks for all the wonderful educational videos. They have all been very helpful. A product question... Who makes the flash arm you use with the Quadra flash and Micro mini? Thank you, in advance.

[configjedi]

keep posting, your prob the best flash tutorials on youtube . loads of info

[chrisburfoot]

The model is Becky but no sorry no phone number I'm keeping that to myself - sorry guys!

[SlammerBlammer]

Great video and a stunningly natural lookin model

Elinchrome D-Lite 4 it is what I'm aming for

[erics1959]

Like you video. All makes a lot of sense. With all the plug-ins for your equipment, I can't believe you didn't give a shout out for your beautiful model.

[asjesus1]

great video/ tutorial

[airscrew1]

Excellent videos Chris, but why don't you tell us who the model is? She's lovely and can u give me her phone number too, Pretty please???

[famousPhotog]

Are you sure I am wrong? How would I have too much light on the subject, if the light from the flash (set at f/11 by measuring with no ND filter) is now passing through a -3 ND filter with the camera adjusted to f/4? In other words, with the flash output set to f/11 with no ND filter, if I took the -3 ND filter and held it over the sphere of my flash meter, the flash as is (not reduced) would then produce an f/4 reading. Please let me know the errors in my thinking.

[ibuhamil]

u are not wrong at all... I always use ND to stop down the ambience light so I can use wide open aperture and pop up the object using flash... :)

I vote on u :)

[bomberbinz]

Wrong. If you are going to use ND filters to open your aperture to say f/4.0 at 125th of a second from say f/11 at 125th of a second because you put a 3 stop ND on you will decrease flash power. If you still had the flash set to f/11 it would then be to much flash on the subject.

[famousPhotog]

@Slash713 If you want to maintain open aperture to throw background out of focus, use neutral density filters and then increase flash power to compensate. Stopping down is usually not a good choice, if you want the subject to be the main focus of attention.

[Slash713]

Hello,

Interesting video. Thanks a lot.

I have a question:

When shooting out door, what if the ambient light is higher than the maximum flash sync of the camera? Let say 1/1200? for the ambient and the maximum camera flash sync is 1/250.

How are we going to get around this?

Thanks

[bomberbinz]

@Slash713 You would have to stop down your aperture to reduce the ambient light, until you get to your sync speed. This will also mean using more flash power to expose correctly.

Thanks.

[c2thew]

very good video. great job!

[petermcweeny]

Great video very easy to follow also nice shirt Chris

[chrisburfoot]

Hi Sorry that you are getting problems from my shirt its not a problem on my monitor! But I will remember that for next time!

On some of the shots we are using the Quadra as a fill light with the sun as a main. But in the shadows - under the trees we are using the Quadra as a main and the ambient as a fill. It happened to be a sunny day when the filming was done but this is not always the case in the UK!!

[LETONEIN]

Dear Chris, Why do you wear a striped shirt on this video and the previous video as you are covered in the rainbow colours of moire effect when the shirt lines interact with the video camera sensor? I admire your demo of the equipment, but strange that you show this in the garden under bright sunlight conditions when a simple sunbounce reflector on it's own would have achieved the SAME results!