Flash Photography For Headshots and Portraits | Course Module 4 of 4
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- Опубликовано: 21 дек 2018
- This is Module 4 of my flash photography course for portraits and headshots from 2016.
In this module:
1) Mixed Lighting
2) Flash for Outdoor Portraits
3) Standardization: Your Default Flash Settings
4) Environmental Portraits
Outdoors Portraiture Tips:
Indoors, your flash is usually the predominant light where your subject is concerned. But, when shooting outdoors during daylight hours, your flash usually serves as a fill light. Here are my suggestions for how to approach outdoor flash photography.
Always Start with these Settings:
• Camera in Aperture Priority mode.
• Use a lower ISO setting. Example: ISO 100.
• Use normal sync speed for your flash if possible. Example: 1/200 or 1/250 depending on your camera. But have HSS ready.
• Use the widest aperture that your lens will provide while still delivering acceptable sharpness and being suitable for daylight. Example: f/5.6 or f/8.0.
Adjustment Controls To Use:
Flash Exposure Compensation (FEC, with TTL-enabled flash) and Exposure Compensation (EC) should be the main controls for adjustments. Adjust aperture for changes to DOF.
• FEC. If you need more, or less, power from your flash.
• EC. If you want more, or less, ambient/background light to show in a scene.
• Aperture. If you want to change depth of field.
Putting It To Use
You should realize that in Aperture Priority mode, by adjusting EC what you are actually doing is overriding the camera’s shutter speed selection. If you were shooting in Manual mode, you’d simply adjust shutter speed directly for the same effect. And, in Manual mode, you’d have a much wider range of control. The EC offers a limited number of stops over or under normal exposure. The trade-off is that Manual mode often requires more thinking and attention to your gear outdoors than does Aperture Priority. So, that’s why Aperture Priority is the right choice for outdoors when speed and simplicity are desired.
With your default settings in place, there are just two controls to think about now: EC and FEC. EC dialed down -1 stop or more will give you deeper sky colors and darker backgrounds. This is a starting point, but by no means do you have to keep it there. EC is your tool for easily adjusting overall exposure. Dial it down for darker, dial it up for brighter. Simple.
FEC dialed down -2/3 stop or so keeps it from looking too “flashy” on your subject. Again, this is only a suggestion. You’ll have to do some testing to determine what you like best as a starting point. Realize that FEC serves to make your flash more of a fill light as you dial it down and more of a main light as you increase flash output.
That’s pretty much it. Unless you want to adjust the aperture, too.
Aperture adjustments are good for changing DOF, without affecting the flash exposure on your subject (because with TTL, flash output will automatically adjust itself). The more you close down your aperture, however, the harder your flash will have to work, possibly not being able to put out enough power at smaller apertures. But, you can always make up for that by bumping up your ISO.
Now, various factors might cause your shutter speed to increase past 1/250 sec. (e.g., higher ISOs, wider apertures, brighter ambient light scenes). This will cause your flash’s high speed sync (HSS) mode to kick in, if you have it set to automatically do so. That’s fine. That’s why it’s there. When this happens, your flash has to work in such a way that it may not produce enough light to meet the needs of your shot. One solution for this is to move in closer to your subject. Chimp your camera’s preview monitor to make sure things are looking right.
Note: Outdoor flash photography at night can essentially be approached the same as indoor flash photography. Just set your camera on Manual mode and use FEC for flash control and shutter speed for ambient light exposure. In other words, use indoor settings.
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Hello Ed. Remarkable videos of yours. I have question for EV at 5.26 though. Looking at the image I understand very clearly the concept of over exposing +2, but when I look at the 2 images you present side by side, I see little increment in ambient exposure inside, more like +1/3rd or 2/3rd than 2, whereas the outside garden seems to have been lit with some fill light, or pushed in Photoshop to accentuate the garden light result. Am I wrong ? Because observing the pictures side by side more and more, I really feel that the outside tree and grass are brighter that 2 stop would give from inside when you consider the almost total darkness they're in when you don't over expose, as on the right picture next to it. May be there was a fill light that you just didn't mention for the purpose of a more "contrasty" demonstration, or shadows were later strongly lifted on grass and trees area for the same purpose ? Any info on that welcome...
This was done in 2016? It is now 2024, but still very helpful.
What if set all flash lights than take a reading from the models face with a flash ligh meter and set the camera to manual and take tha photo ?
When you say to dial down the FEC down -2/3 stop or so......-2/3 stop down from what setting?😌
Can you give me the point in the video you’re referring to (Time link)?
@@edverosky in the outdoor portraiture tips under putting it to use in the additional info below the video
Take that to mean from your current setting.
@@edverosky ok...just to clarify....FEC is adjusted thru the flash and EC is adjusted on the camera when shooting in aperture mode, not manual mode on camera, right? TIA!
kathy b Compensation is relevant in modes where things are automatically adjusted. If you’re in manual mode, it doesn’t apply. So yes, you control EC from the camera generally to override what the camera thinks is the correct exposure for the ambient light. You adjust FEC when the flash is in TTL mode to override what TTL thinks is the correct flash output for your subject. You can usually control FEC from the flash, transmitter (off-camera flash), or from the camera.
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