Gavin, I'm nominating you for an Oscar for "Best Teaching Style", Sofie for "Best Supporting Model", and Sam for "Best BTS Technical Artist". You and the team would win hands down!
Gavin, you’re by far my favorite “teacher” on Adorama! Very clear explanations, and you make it easy to understand as you go through the whole process, start to finish. I always learn and have fun watching!
Dear schools, This is how you teach. You don’t vomit out a bunch of words and insist they understand you. You put your hands on, show the results reinforce the concepts. This man could teach anything.
You are a genius!!! It is the best way I have ever seen someone explain lighting. Specially for beginners. Usually other professionals say, take down or put up 1-2-3 stop. When a beginner doesn’t know what is a stop. Your explanations are magnificent!!! Thanks 😊
The term ‘stop’ is historical where moving a setting (shutter speed, aperture) one ‘click’ would either halve or double the light. Example changing the shutter speed from 1/125 to 1/250 effectively halves the light and is referred to as 1-stop, which corresponded to the mechanical ‘click’ in the knob. The reference to ‘stops’ later spilled over to other factors such as film speed (called generically ISO) and flash output as described here. Nowadays, with finer adjustments to the settings available, you’ll hear photographers refer to changing in ⅓ or ½ stops. In this video, as Gavin adjusts the flash power, notice the 0.3 and 0.7 appear briefly in the right hand part of the LCD screen. This is another way of expressing ⅓ and 2/3 of a stop respectively.
Another one of your great portrait episodes Gavin. I don't get enough of them. Sophie is an amazing model. She is confident and beautiful in a modest way.
The simplicity of the setup and and quality of the photos, demonstrate that good technique doesn't require multiple lights and complex setups. It's a pleasure to watch how simple arrangements can yield excellent results.
I like the way you teach. How to do proper studio exposure by not using an incident flash meter, and how to re-position the light without re-adjusting your settings (same distance from subject to strobe flash).
If you don't get the fundamentals down right, you can't hope to get to the next level. I've been using some flash for a while, but I find the more I practice, and the more videos on flash I watch, the better I get. It's not second nature yet, but if I practice the fundamentals, I WILL get there.Thanks Gavin!
Well done great video Gavin, your unique way of teaching deserves an award on its own! It is very hard to find your type these day, great sense of humour, educational and just fun al-round.
I'm a beginner into studio and, due to the YT priority/algorithms, and the order of the playlist, I didn't understand why the first black image is important. Now I know... and I understand ^^ As always: just so clear and usable advises with just a little bit of funny!
Thank you for the information on how to use some basic settings for flash photography. I have been afraid to understand the mathematical ratios and your demonstration helped immensely. I did chuckle when the model changed from using a box wrench to a pipe wrench while sitting on a tire.
Super clear, step by step guide for those new to off-camera flash. Well done to everyone, as always. The tip about camera to subject distance is often missed by other teachers, and does confuse a lot of newbies.
absolutely love how he just gets right to the video. love his upbeat personality. one gifted photographer. another awesome video. i have that flash and all I have right now is an umbrella, not a shoot thru one though. but this was close to my setup.
Gavin, it is clear that you spent much time planning this video. It is even more polished than your usual well-done videos. I'm afraid you have moved up the bar for yourself. It is a great review or new learning experience and enjoyable to watch. I hadn't thought about tracking the distance using the arm length method before. But more importantly, what a great way to demonstrate keeping the exposure the same by keeping the distance consistent. Job well-done.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos Gavin... always keeping it simple enough for us to be able to understand, however also thorough enough to be able to master what you describe. And the subject you touch are definitely what people need to be able to learn more about. Thanks, and keep up the magnificent work ! Greetz from sunny Flanders ! Frank
This video here is what I needed. The important, technical information I needed for flash photography is right here in this video. You hit EVERY point that Ive been looking for especially the rule of thumb where you told Sofie to extend her arm to the umbrella. I always have a problem on how far to distance the flash to the subject. Once again you kept it simple and to the point. Really love this video. THANKS!!!
Fabulous, always great to see your regular topics and approaches on all levels, because despite my apparant years of knowledge and experience, and the rather large collection of modifiers I have accumulated for my speedlites, I still dither and procrastinate on which to get out for the actor and model shoots I do. I always want to get the best possible looks and results that will flatter and please the talent, but still after all these years I have never settled on one preferred modifier. Every shoot I find myself alternating between shoot through umbrellas, reflective umbrellas, no modifer, small softboxes, larger softboxes, bouncing off walls and reflector cards. Not sure if I just like experimenting or if somewhere in all this Im still discovering that the looks from each modifier make a differencce per person and how their skin tone, skin texture,hair, outfit, makeup react with the lighting
Hi John. I think we all dither, switch things up and experiment to some extent. I'm terrible at getting a new modifier, using it far to much and then putting it away for far to long! As long you enjoy your photography it's all good 👍
Great video, Gavin! I just picked up some monolights recently and I'm getting ready to try my first studio shoot soon. This video is a great help and couldn't have come at a more opportune time. Thanks!
Hi Brandon. I'm glad this video helped. Good luck with your first shoot. Bonus tip just for you... Only use one light on your first shoot, if you need two lights, figure out a way to make it work with just one. You'll learn more and learn faster, trust me!
Nice work in the studio Gavin. I commented on your 3 light setup, fantastic. Which left me thinking, I need to revisit all your studio stuff. I have 2 AD200's & 2 Speedlights, umbrellas and stuff. My 3 light shoot turned out well, thank you but I think this video's content will improve my next shoot dramatically. Very helpful stuff, thank you.
A very good demonstration, Gavin. Many just beginning to do studio shoots with flash can learn a lot from this one. I'm now using a recently purchased 60" Vizio Smart TV as a live display, attached as the second monitor display screen of my PC. (small 9 pin to HDMI converter is needed). All of my shots now appear on the TV as well as the photo software on the PC screen. I found that when the model can easily see the result of each shot, that my shots of her improve rapidly. You seem to be doing the same with a very small display. I suggest you go much larger. The Smart TVs of today (OLED) reproduce the colors and image quality very well, once color balanced, although I wouldn't do Photoshop editing on them. I use a camera shot of my color checker and compare the PC screen image of it to the same image on the TV to get the adjustments of the TV close to the same, and close enough for this purpose and more reasonably priced than a true PC monitor that is much smaller.
@@GavinHoey It doesn't need to be 60". Any high resolution newer Smart TV should work, but it needs to be large enough so that the model can see it easily. Letting the model see each photo as it's taken has had a significant improvement in how they look in following shots for me. They just keep getting better and better. You will need to adjust the colors to match your PC monitor as best as you can, though. My laptop is on a computer table behind camera right with my TV on the wall above the laptop. The tether cable goes up to the ceiling from my usual shooting area (with slack), across, and down to the laptop. The TV is on a swinging wall mount, so can be pulled out and angled as needed. For the purpose, your older computer display might even work. I'm just suggesting something larger than your 7" monitor on light stand. My studio is in a former master bedroom suite on the 2nd floor of my home. The shooting room is 19' X 26' with 8' ceiling (my biggest limiting problem). Most shots are when seated for this reason.
Such a great teaching style. Comprehensive. Thanks. And my question: Just started a set up with my Fuji GFX and Bowens strobes and remote control. Problem is that my remote control goes into stand by mode only after half a minute (which I need from time to time to change settings or check photos). It's annoying always to press the "CHN" button to reactivate it. Is there something I can do?
Ohh, that shot of Sophie at 7:12 is dyn-o-mite, soft shadows and highlights of perfection! Love the "touch-the-umbrella-tip" so I'm going to get a model for all my future shoots. 😁Gavin, thanks for putting all the basics in this one video. From many YT videos I've garnered pieces here and there but this ONE gets it all done. Bookmarked! Thanks for another great video!
Gavin, I'm nominating you for an Oscar for "Best Teaching Style", Sofie for "Best Supporting Model", and Sam for "Best BTS Technical Artist". You and the team would win hands down!
I second the nomination!
Sophie, Chloe, ... All of them for the BSM 😍😍
i loved his work and videos are very fun to watch!!!
All hail Gavin!!!!!!!!
Gavin hoey is the BEST teacher on line hands down!!!!
Gavin, you’re by far my favorite “teacher” on Adorama! Very clear explanations, and you make it easy to understand as you go through the whole process, start to finish. I always learn and have fun watching!
Thanks for another " Classic Gavin " video. Thanks also to Adorama and Sophie....
Dear schools,
This is how you teach. You don’t vomit out a bunch of words and insist they understand you. You put your hands on, show the results reinforce the concepts. This man could teach anything.
gavin hoey is the best photo grapheyi teacher
You are a genius!!! It is the best way I have ever seen someone explain lighting. Specially for beginners. Usually other professionals say, take down or put up 1-2-3 stop. When a beginner doesn’t know what is a stop. Your explanations are magnificent!!! Thanks 😊
The term ‘stop’ is historical where moving a setting (shutter speed, aperture) one ‘click’ would either halve or double the light. Example changing the shutter speed from 1/125 to 1/250 effectively halves the light and is referred to as 1-stop, which corresponded to the mechanical ‘click’ in the knob. The reference to ‘stops’ later spilled over to other factors such as film speed (called generically ISO) and flash output as described here. Nowadays, with finer adjustments to the settings available, you’ll hear photographers refer to changing in ⅓ or ½ stops. In this video, as Gavin adjusts the flash power, notice the 0.3 and 0.7 appear briefly in the right hand part of the LCD screen. This is another way of expressing ⅓ and 2/3 of a stop respectively.
Having the model touch the umbrella for marking distance. Change my whole portrait setups.
@@PatronusOpacus How long have you had your models do that?
@@PatronusOpacus right? I had never thought of this..
Gavin is simply Da Best!!!!!!!!!!! Excellent video as always
I like the way you explain these videos and You got a fantastic personality as well,
Thank you 👍
Another one of your great portrait episodes Gavin. I don't get enough of them. Sophie is an amazing model. She is confident and beautiful in a modest way.
The simplicity of the setup and and quality of the photos, demonstrate that good technique doesn't require multiple lights and complex setups. It's a pleasure to watch how simple arrangements can yield excellent results.
Gavin, you are so engaging as you share your expertise. And Sophie, you speak volumes with a look. Thanks for such a fun, helpful video!
Gavin, you’re by far my favorite “teacher” on Adorama! I do agree!!!!!!
Gavin is simply the best on the net to explain flash and creative photography in its most simple form, thank you Gavin for all the help.
Been a photographer for over 30 years and enjoy Gavin's videos very much! There is so much valuable information here and fabulously presented!
I like the way you teach. How to do proper studio exposure by not using an incident flash meter, and how to re-position the light without re-adjusting your settings (same distance from subject to strobe flash).
Great video, as usual! Thanks Gavin!
The idea of having the model touch the modifier so as to keep it at the same distance was a good one!
Thanks Robert 👍
This has to be the best introduction to flash photography, thanks a lot!
Thanks! I didn 't work with transmitters and this lesson helped a lot . SOPHIE IS LOVELY
If you don't get the fundamentals down right, you can't hope to get to the next level. I've been using some flash for a while, but I find the more I practice, and the more videos on flash I watch, the better I get. It's not second nature yet, but if I practice the fundamentals, I WILL get there.Thanks Gavin!
Well said Brent 👍
Thank you!!! I've been struggling with lighting. I'm going to try your tips today!
Very helpful video, and amazing photos!
Thanks. Gavi. We learn every time with your videos. Thanks again..
What an excellent presentation! Your demonstration and explanations are simple and direct. Much appreciated!
Hey Gavin I am an Indian I am learning a lot from your workshop video and my work is improving.
Well done great video Gavin, your unique way of teaching deserves an award on its own! It is very hard to find your type these day, great sense of humour, educational and just fun al-round.
I'm a beginner into studio and, due to the YT priority/algorithms, and the order of the playlist, I didn't understand why the first black image is important. Now I know... and I understand ^^
As always: just so clear and usable advises with just a little bit of funny!
Back to basics solid tutorial. Excellent as always and professionally explained. Well done Gavin 👍
Hi Gavin, I really like your presentation style. That makes all your videos just great. Thank you.
Thanks Patrick 👍
Gavin, you rock.
I'm learning flash photography, and this was the easiest and simplest video. Loved it. Thank you.
All hail Gavin Hoey!!!!!!!!! Incredible!
Going through a class in flash ...this has been most helpful. Thank you x 100.
Excellent as always.👍
This is gold! Thank you for simplifying lighting for studio newbies like myself.
Extremely useful to a complete beginner! Thank you.
Many thanks Gavin. Another great tutorial from you
love learning from this guy. thank you!
You are the best...Love the way you break everything down and explain it all. Thank you for your commitment to make us all better photographers!
Thank you for the information on how to use some basic settings for flash photography. I have been afraid to understand the mathematical ratios and your demonstration helped immensely. I did chuckle when the model changed from using a box wrench to a pipe wrench while sitting on a tire.
Thanks Mike. I don't know much about mathematical ratios (or spanners) but I do know what looks right to me 😉
Super clear, step by step guide for those new to off-camera flash. Well done to everyone, as always. The tip about camera to subject distance is often missed by other teachers, and does confuse a lot of newbies.
Hi Alan. Simple tips are the only tips I can remember 😉
Thank you, Gavin and Sophie. Always fun, and Sophie is great. Take care.
Thanks Mike 👍
Gavin, love the videos you create. They always motivate me and make me want to go out and shoot!
Brilliant as always and love that music too!
Fantastic video. So easy to digest
Your looking good Gavin, thank you for video!
This is great. Gavin is the best. I wish he would have had this out when I started messing with strobes. It would have saved me HOURS.
Superb video Gavin - pitched at just the right level - bravo! I will be using this for my new camera
This was amazing vary helpful thanks for sharing
Great Presentation. Thanks Gavin, Sophie and Sam! 😎👍🇨🇦
Thanks Alan 👍
A great beginner/refresher, Gavin. Thanks!
Great video! Simple instruction that guarantees results.
I love how creative your videos are. And super helpful.
absolutely love how he just gets right to the video. love his upbeat personality. one gifted photographer. another awesome video. i have that flash and all I have right now is an umbrella, not a shoot thru one though. but this was close to my setup.
The practical theory is really good 👏🏻.
Amazing!
Thank you for this. I love simple setups. I love every single one of your videos!!!
Thanks Patty, that really means a lot 👍
So helpful thanks
Easy one light setup Gavin! Excellent tips. Thank you.
Gavin, it is clear that you spent much time planning this video. It is even more polished than your usual well-done videos. I'm afraid you have moved up the bar for yourself.
It is a great review or new learning experience and enjoyable to watch. I hadn't thought about tracking the distance using the arm length method before. But more importantly, what a great way to demonstrate keeping the exposure the same by keeping the distance consistent. Job well-done.
Thanks for the kind words. Yes the planning time for "back to basics" videos takes a long time for sure but the editing takes way longer!
Great stuff as always, more of these beginning type videos would be really cool, thanks again for your videos.
That's good to hear Thomas as I have lots more "Your First..." Videos in the pipeline 👍
Brilliant Gavin great video.
Thank you so much, Mr. Hoey! What a class!
Always the best tutorials 👏👏👏
Great stuff!! Thanks Gavin!
Thanks Lisa 👍
Superbly explained. Very enjoyable and inspirational.
Great, as per usual! Thanks Gavin!
I thoroughly enjoy your videos Gavin... always keeping it simple enough for us to be able to understand, however also thorough enough to be able to master what you describe.
And the subject you touch are definitely what people need to be able to learn more about.
Thanks, and keep up the magnificent work !
Greetz from sunny Flanders !
Frank
Thanks for the kind words Frank 👍
This video here is what I needed. The important, technical information I needed for flash photography is right here in this video. You hit EVERY point that Ive been looking for especially the rule of thumb where you told Sofie to extend her arm to the umbrella. I always have a problem on how far to distance the flash to the subject. Once again you kept it simple and to the point. Really love this video. THANKS!!!
Thanks Fred, that's exactly what I was hoping to hear.
Great simple and easy to understand tutorial!
tis is so good, realy love the information you give. realy thank you
Yes, I really enjoyed this video. I’m a hobbyist and am getting ready for studio lighting. Thank you for making it look easy.
Fabulous, always great to see your regular topics and approaches on all levels, because despite my apparant years of knowledge and experience, and the rather large collection of modifiers I have accumulated for my speedlites, I still dither and procrastinate on which to get out for the actor and model shoots I do. I always want to get the best possible looks and results that will flatter and please the talent, but still after all these years I have never settled on one preferred modifier. Every shoot I find myself alternating between shoot through umbrellas, reflective umbrellas, no modifer, small softboxes, larger softboxes, bouncing off walls and reflector cards. Not sure if I just like experimenting or if somewhere in all this Im still discovering that the looks from each modifier make a differencce per person and how their skin tone, skin texture,hair, outfit, makeup react with the lighting
Hi John. I think we all dither, switch things up and experiment to some extent. I'm terrible at getting a new modifier, using it far to much and then putting it away for far to long! As long you enjoy your photography it's all good 👍
Great explanation - thank you !
Great video Gavin! Love the reminder to play with one variable. Question about tethering - what are tethering to in these videos?
Oh, how I wish i'd seen this years ago. But better late than never. Thanks a bunch, you and your team are doing an excellent job!
Great video, Gavin! I just picked up some monolights recently and I'm getting ready to try my first studio shoot soon. This video is a great help and couldn't have come at a more opportune time. Thanks!
Hi Brandon. I'm glad this video helped. Good luck with your first shoot. Bonus tip just for you... Only use one light on your first shoot, if you need two lights, figure out a way to make it work with just one. You'll learn more and learn faster, trust me!
super! Thank you Gavin!
the best moment is always when Gavin introduces the model: "the amazing SOPHIEEEEEE".
Magic great video, thanks
Fabulous 😊
Great video Gavin
Thanks Kirsty 👍
@@GavinHoey your welcome
Great video! Thank you!
Thank you Gavin, really useful and well explained video..
Great 🔥
Great video. We would also like to see video on white balance
Nice work in the studio Gavin. I commented on your 3 light setup, fantastic. Which left me thinking, I need to revisit all your studio stuff. I have 2 AD200's & 2 Speedlights, umbrellas and stuff. My 3 light shoot turned out well, thank you but I think this video's content will improve my next shoot dramatically. Very helpful stuff, thank you.
Thank you🙏
Gav brings home another awesome video as always! 2 thumbs up but YT only allows 1.
1, 3 or 5 👍 Will work 😉
A very good demonstration, Gavin. Many just beginning to do studio shoots with flash can learn a lot from this one.
I'm now using a recently purchased 60" Vizio Smart TV as a live display, attached as the second monitor display screen of my PC. (small 9 pin to HDMI converter is needed). All of my shots now appear on the TV as well as the photo software on the PC screen. I found that when the model can easily see the result of each shot, that my shots of her improve rapidly. You seem to be doing the same with a very small display. I suggest you go much larger. The Smart TVs of today (OLED) reproduce the colors and image quality very well, once color balanced, although I wouldn't do Photoshop editing on them. I use a camera shot of my color checker and compare the PC screen image of it to the same image on the TV to get the adjustments of the TV close to the same, and close enough for this purpose and more reasonably priced than a true PC monitor that is much smaller.
Hi Charley. It sounds like tethering is an essential tool for both of us. But giving up 60" of wall space in my small home studio is not an option 😉
@@GavinHoey It doesn't need to be 60". Any high resolution newer Smart TV should work, but it needs to be large enough so that the model can see it easily. Letting the model see each photo as it's taken has had a significant improvement in how they look in following shots for me. They just keep getting better and better. You will need to adjust the colors to match your PC monitor as best as you can, though. My laptop is on a computer table behind camera right with my TV on the wall above the laptop. The tether cable goes up to the ceiling from my usual shooting area (with slack), across, and down to the laptop. The TV is on a swinging wall mount, so can be pulled out and angled as needed. For the purpose, your older computer display might even work. I'm just suggesting something larger than your 7" monitor on light stand. My studio is in a former master bedroom suite on the 2nd floor of my home. The shooting room is 19' X 26' with 8' ceiling (my biggest limiting problem). Most shots are when seated for this reason.
Im doing my first studio session tomorrow.
I have two speedlites and one strobe. Im hoping it goes well.
Such a great teaching style. Comprehensive. Thanks. And my question: Just started a set up with my Fuji GFX and Bowens strobes and remote control. Problem is that my remote control goes into stand by mode only after half a minute (which I need from time to time to change settings or check photos). It's annoying always to press the "CHN" button to reactivate it. Is there something I can do?
Frikken Awesome!!!!!!!!!
I realy like your lessons!
Brilliant thanks
Excellent! Straight-forward and very well presented! Are you tethered to that tablet in the corner?
I am indeed tethering to my Lenovo Miix Tablet Stephen 👍
Ohh, that shot of Sophie at 7:12 is dyn-o-mite, soft shadows and highlights of perfection! Love the "touch-the-umbrella-tip" so I'm going to get a model for all my future shoots. 😁Gavin, thanks for putting all the basics in this one video. From many YT videos I've garnered pieces here and there but this ONE gets it all done. Bookmarked! Thanks for another great video!
Glad it useful today AND in the future 👍
Great video!
Awesome video! About the ambient light; how do you see through the viewfinder when it is completely black without the flash?
Gavin is best ...