You are the best photographer in real life and in RUclips!!!! I learn so much from you! You make things look easy and this is because you are a great teacher too! Thank you so much for sharing so much knowledge and expertise 🤓🙌🏻👏🏼
I have literally just stumbled over your RUclips channel (I'm trying to teach myself/get the confidence to use my flash off camera - this years goal) and your work and vision to see an image is incredible. Thank you for sharing these, I'm already a fan - oh and massive round of applause for Lisa who was obviously the star of the day 😀
Great job Neil, as always, beautiful dramatic colorful shots. There is one thing I would change in you favorite shot: The sun comes from Lisa's left side and the flash from Lisa's right which makes a little disharmony for me. I think that lighting from the same side as the sun could work a hair better. But I know on shoots like this a lot is on photographer's mind and this is a minor thing. Anyway, well done! Love your work, keep it up!
Beautiful work. I have been capturing beach family portraits and beach weddings for over 10 years. For most of those shoots, I used a 25" beauty dish. When it is breezy, it is tough to keep in place. The soft light you get out of the MadMod is soft enough. Plus, the beauty dish is way too large to leave in the shot, and try to remove with Photoshop. Thank you for this very educational video.
I can't remember exactly what I did in this video as it was a while ago now but if you use CTO (Orange) and CTB (Blue) together with manual white balance it allows you to retain natural skin tones whilst changing the colour temperature of the rest of the image. If you use a warm gel but shoot with a cool manual white balance the background becomes much cooler whilst the skin tones will be natural for example
Love your content and your work! Just have a question. I just bought the ad200 and the Godox ML-CD15 Diffusion Dome. Do you think I will get good results? I do have softboxes but I'm scared it is going to be a lot of wind. I dont have an assistant. When you use F 1.8, is the picture totally sharp? I have tried before and it will get kinda blurry. What tips can you tell me knowing that I'm going to have my first weeding? What metering mode and zone do work for you? Regards😊
Great real time video...loved the flash units used. The tripods look like the stick together when packed, ..may I ask what brand/make the are, Also. weren't you scared with the wind blowing the light stands over....many thanks. Just subscribed 👍
Great bts. Loved how u showed the position and distance of the model relative to the water body. I thought she would be near the edge like in later shots. Great learning. thanks
Thank you very much! I would highly recommend you join my Patreon (there is a completely free trial) as I have made lots of editing videos in there. The link to join is in the description
thanks again for great inspiration! this ill will try to recreate here on a Danish beach. ill seen all your videos and it give me inspiration to try it. what was your color kelvin temp in camera? ill try to play around with changing the kelvin on camera and cto and ctb, and maybe ND filters. looking forward to many more videos from you! greetings from Copenhagen.
Just amazing shots! I'd be curious how you set your white balance for these shots. Do you set at 5000 the color of the flash and adjust in everything in Lightroom, or use the trick of adjusting it higher in camera to enhance the sunset? I didn't notice the use of any gels to offset the warmer color so the model is the right color. Can you give some guidance here?
Neil, I feel that this could also be done at your sync speed and shooting at a higher aperture. Nothing in background but clouds. You would’ve gotten a beautiful sun burst.
Hi Greg, for me it is a personal preference but I really don't like that sun burst effect, I don't like the look of it and iit would really distract from the bride. Plus, I would have to shoot at something like f16 which would give far too much detail in the foreground and background and show up ever little dust spot. For portraits I will always choose to shoot wide open if I can
First of, amazing work Neil! You are a great teacher. I think its a creative choice at the end. They are both valid opinions and it depends on your preferences. I have done both, wide open with nd filter and more closed down aperture without, in the later one you have to be even more aware of the framing and details in the background ground.
Great ideas. Just followed Lisa, off to do beech shoot. @luminitephoto Thank you (y) Thanks for sharing original unedited as well. So we can see see what you're capturing before any editing. Makes a difference.
Epic BTS, very educational and thank you for sharing. Where do you buy affordable wedding dresses for your shoots? This was mentioned in another video but couldnt find it. Cheers
Thank you so much Chikara! I have bought dresses off Amazon in the past but also from a shop which is local to me which sells damaged dresses for a discounted price (sometimes you can't even tell that they are damaged). But there is a huge variety available on Amazon
Great images! Love your bts videos. Is there any reason why you chose HSS over closing your aperture to get your ambient ? I guess they give the same result. DoF not really an issue with these? Great images regardless, keep up the great work 👌
Thank you very much Stephen! That's a good question - I much prefer shooting at HSS because it allows me to shoot at wider apertures, which I always prefer for portraits - especially when shooting through things. If I were to use keep my shutter around 1/200 I would have to be something like f16 for the equivalent and I wouldn't like that much depth of field - plus you'd see lots of dust spots I am sure 😂 the other option would have been an ND filter. Great question!
I love watching your video. You share so much knowledge with us! What is the reason for u to choose godox v860ii? Is getting a V860ii better or godox V1? Some pro use v1 with ad200
Hi Ray, thank you very much! I always expose for whatever is the brightest part of the photograph - or as close to that as I can get - so in this case that was the bright sky
Hi, Love the lighting. I am only starting with 1 light set up I have a ad200pro, I also have a Canon 580ex. which I cant use with the god trigger. so I am only going to be using a God flash with a mag mod set. I was hoping to get the same effect that you got with one flash. but maybe I will have to wait some time for another flash. can you still get a reasonable shot with the sunset using one flash? as I haven't tried as yet, am waiting for for my mag mod kit to come.
Great photoshoot! Awlays feel so inspired watching your videos. I was just wondering, why shooting at so high speed shutter in this case? Do your really need the shutter that fast? Asking not to critisize but because, I dont have high speed sinc and too many flashes to be able to replicate... so may be if I lower the shutter speed, would be still able to freeze the action and not needing hss and second flash? Would appreciate any advice 🙏😇
Hi Aleksander, thank you so much! That's a great question :-) The reason is used HSS in this instance is because if I didn't I would have to shoot around f11 or f14. For more this is not a good aperture for portraits because far too much of the photograph is sharp. The best solution would have been to use a ND filter on my camera as that may have allowed me to not require HSS and still be able to shoot at a wide aperture but unfortunately I didn't have one with me on this shoot
Hi! Amazing work! Ive been learning a lot from you. I just one question though. I understand you want to shoot wide open but did you consider using an nd filter to lower your shutter speed to get full power from the flash?
Thank you very much Paul! Yes, it can be - unfortunately the hotshoes on Godox speedlights are not as sturdy or well designed as from other manufacturers
Hi Dago - I edited these particular images in Photoshop and cloned out the posts using content aware fill. I will be making a full tutorial video for my Patreon in the next few days in which I will show you exactly how I edited this set
@@NeilRedfern Greetings from Melbourne, Australia. Great video. I just started to watch your video, they are nice. As Dago, I would like to learn the techniques you used in editing these photos. Especially how you changed the colour of the sunlight. Looking forward to you post on edits.
Incredible photos! Thanks for filming this. One question: what did you use to quickly attach your ad200 to the light stand? In one scene it looked like you used the MagMod MagShoe - but that has a hot shoe attachment and the AD200 has no shoe attachment.
Beautiful images,but I can't understand why you don't use a nd filter. I use much less flash power and recycles much faster And I would never do that to my model. Poor woman
You’re worried about dust spots and here you are cloning out the tripod stands?! Come on Neil, be honest with us, you know perfectly well you don’t have to use high speed sync, and you would have gotten the same exact results.
Hi Rich, shooting at f12 or thereabouts will make the foreground and background look very different than if shooting at 1.8, it would make the foreground very much in focus which I always avoid with portraits. What I should have done was use an ND filter really but I wouldn't shoot at a narrow aperture in this situation regardless. Cloning out the light stands is unavoidable
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You are the best photographer in real life and in RUclips!!!! I learn so much from you! You make things look easy and this is because you are a great teacher too! Thank you so much for sharing so much knowledge and expertise 🤓🙌🏻👏🏼
Thank you so much Adriana! That is so kind of you and really means a lot - I really appreciate the support :)
Thank you so much for all the lucid and instructive information you are sharing with us,, you are top of the top!!!!
Thank you very much! Very kind of you
Sir.You’re the greatest! I’m glad I found your channel
Thank you so much!
Beautiful images, very inspirational as usual. Hats off to Lisa, great job everyone! Thank you for sharing
Thank you so much! And yes I agree, Lisa was fantastic!
my conditions on the Oregon coast USA, are identical to this, it is reassuring to see you work in these spots and the gear you use,
My pleasure - thank you Eric :)
I do sunset photo sessions very often, congratulation I like your photography
Masterclass photographer not many come close to you❤❤❤
Too kind! Thank you
Always so much fun to watch, and very informative. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much Adrienne! Very kind of you
Can you please explain the post editing techniques.
Thanks.
Photography is really a group effort- nature, the sun, the model and the photographer
I totally agree!
I have literally just stumbled over your RUclips channel (I'm trying to teach myself/get the confidence to use my flash off camera - this years goal) and your work and vision to see an image is incredible. Thank you for sharing these, I'm already a fan - oh and massive round of applause for Lisa who was obviously the star of the day 😀
Thank you so much Andy!
Great job Neil, as always, beautiful dramatic colorful shots. There is one thing I would change in you favorite shot: The sun comes from Lisa's left side and the flash from Lisa's right which makes a little disharmony for me. I think that lighting from the same side as the sun could work a hair better. But I know on shoots like this a lot is on photographer's mind and this is a minor thing. Anyway, well done! Love your work, keep it up!
Beautiful work. I have been capturing beach family portraits and beach weddings for over 10 years. For most of those shoots, I used a 25" beauty dish. When it is breezy, it is tough to keep in place. The soft light you get out of the MadMod is soft enough. Plus, the beauty dish is way too large to leave in the shot, and try to remove with Photoshop. Thank you for this very educational video.
How come your Gel didn’t give off an orange look? What made the picture was your editing?
I can't remember exactly what I did in this video as it was a while ago now but if you use CTO (Orange) and CTB (Blue) together with manual white balance it allows you to retain natural skin tones whilst changing the colour temperature of the rest of the image. If you use a warm gel but shoot with a cool manual white balance the background becomes much cooler whilst the skin tones will be natural for example
10:25 that reflection shot is very beautiful
Thank you very much!
Stunning shots as ever mate 😍
Thank you very much! Very kind 😌
Wonderful Idea fantastic shot. Bravo
Thank you very much!
Amazingly fantastic 👏🏽
Great pics! Do you have a video on editing out the flash stand in photoshop
Thank you! I don't think I do on my RUclips channel but I do in my Patreon.
Powerful images!
Love your content and your work! Just have a question. I just bought the ad200 and the Godox ML-CD15 Diffusion Dome. Do you think I will get good results? I do have softboxes but I'm scared it is going to be a lot of wind. I dont have an assistant. When you use F 1.8, is the picture totally sharp? I have tried before and it will get kinda blurry. What tips can you tell me knowing that I'm going to have my first weeding? What metering mode and zone do work for you? Regards😊
Great real time video...loved the flash units used.
The tripods look like the stick together when packed, ..may I ask what brand/make the are,
Also. weren't you scared with the wind blowing the light stands over....many thanks.
Just subscribed 👍
Thank you so much! Very kind. Yes, I love the light stands I use for that exact reason, they are Manfrotto Mini stands 😊
you are the best for me to learn from you lots of thing about photography may be from your skills i can grow my self too thanky you from nepal ...
Thank you very much - very kind of you
Good work here, great enthusiasm and skill shown here
Thank you very much Allan, very kind of you to say
Great bts. Loved how u showed the position and distance of the model relative to the water body. I thought she would be near the edge like in later shots. Great learning. thanks
Thank you very much Manik, I am really pleased you found the video useful :)
How do you remove the lights from pictures can you show how u edit ? I love your videos ❤
Thank you very much! I would highly recommend you join my Patreon (there is a completely free trial) as I have made lots of editing videos in there. The link to join is in the description
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you very much, very basic demostration.
My pleasure! Thank you Dale 😊
What light stands do you use?
Did you gel the flashes?
thanks again for great inspiration! this ill will try to recreate here on a Danish beach. ill seen all your videos and it give me inspiration to try it. what was your color kelvin temp in camera? ill try to play around with changing the kelvin on camera and cto and ctb, and maybe ND filters. looking forward to many more videos from you! greetings from Copenhagen.
I just got a speedlite
But it is not lighting my subject
The image is still coming out dark
Thanks, beautiful from start to finish
Thank you so much Tenesha!
Really like your work and may need to pick your brains Neil.
Thank you very much :-)
Just amazing shots! I'd be curious how you set your white balance for these shots. Do you set at 5000 the color of the flash and adjust in everything in Lightroom, or use the trick of adjusting it higher in camera to enhance the sunset? I didn't notice the use of any gels to offset the warmer color so the model is the right color. Can you give some guidance here?
Great work .
Really your are Unique Artist .
Thank you so much Motasim, that is very kind of you
Hi pls how were you able to edit the speedlight from the photo ..any tutorial
Great question - I have a video in my Patreon which shows how to do this but I will also make one for RUclips
How did you stack these together without using a tripod 🤔🤔
Good question! I didn't composite these, I used content aware fill to remove the light stands in Photoshop 🙂
Neil, I feel that this could also be done at your sync speed and shooting at a higher aperture. Nothing in background but clouds. You would’ve gotten a beautiful sun burst.
Hi Greg, for me it is a personal preference but I really don't like that sun burst effect, I don't like the look of it and iit would really distract from the bride. Plus, I would have to shoot at something like f16 which would give far too much detail in the foreground and background and show up ever little dust spot. For portraits I will always choose to shoot wide open if I can
First of, amazing work Neil! You are a great teacher. I think its a creative choice at the end. They are both valid opinions and it depends on your preferences. I have done both, wide open with nd filter and more closed down aperture without, in the later one you have to be even more aware of the framing and details in the background ground.
funnily I like the unedited much more than the edited ^^ (except the removal of the flash of course)
Neil!!!!!!!! Where have you been
So great!
Thank you Beverly!
Great ideas. Just followed Lisa, off to do beech shoot. @luminitephoto Thank you (y) Thanks for sharing original unedited as well. So we can see see what you're capturing before any editing. Makes a difference.
Thank you very much David! I am pleased you enjoyed the video :-)
Epic BTS, very educational and thank you for sharing. Where do you buy affordable wedding dresses for your shoots? This was mentioned in another video but couldnt find it. Cheers
Thank you so much Chikara! I have bought dresses off Amazon in the past but also from a shop which is local to me which sells damaged dresses for a discounted price (sometimes you can't even tell that they are damaged). But there is a huge variety available on Amazon
How do you remove the light/stand in post?
I use the clone stamp tool in Photoshop, although you could use generative fill now as well
Great images! Love your bts videos. Is there any reason why you chose HSS over closing your aperture to get your ambient ? I guess they give the same result. DoF not really an issue with these? Great images regardless, keep up the great work 👌
Thank you very much Stephen! That's a good question - I much prefer shooting at HSS because it allows me to shoot at wider apertures, which I always prefer for portraits - especially when shooting through things. If I were to use keep my shutter around 1/200 I would have to be something like f16 for the equivalent and I wouldn't like that much depth of field - plus you'd see lots of dust spots I am sure 😂 the other option would have been an ND filter. Great question!
Hi Neil,Can you please tell me what stands are you using to hold your Ad200 and speed lights?
I love watching your video. You share so much knowledge with us!
What is the reason for u to choose godox v860ii? Is getting a V860ii better or godox V1? Some pro use v1 with ad200
Great pictures. Did you expose for the ambient light or a number of stops darker because of the into bright sky?
Hi Ray, thank you very much! I always expose for whatever is the brightest part of the photograph - or as close to that as I can get - so in this case that was the bright sky
Great work!
Thank you very much Dennis!
Hi, Love the lighting. I am only starting with 1 light set up I have a ad200pro, I also have a Canon 580ex. which I cant use with the god trigger. so I am only going to be using
a God flash with a mag mod set. I was hoping to get the same effect that you got with one flash. but maybe I will have to wait some time for another flash. can you still get a reasonable shot with the sunset using one flash? as I haven't tried as yet, am waiting for for my mag mod kit to come.
Amazing
Thank you so much!
Love it.
Great photoshoot! Awlays feel so inspired watching your videos.
I was just wondering, why shooting at so high speed shutter in this case? Do your really need the shutter that fast? Asking not to critisize but because, I dont have high speed sinc and too many flashes to be able to replicate... so may be if I lower the shutter speed, would be still able to freeze the action and not needing hss and second flash?
Would appreciate any advice 🙏😇
Hi Aleksander, thank you so much! That's a great question :-) The reason is used HSS in this instance is because if I didn't I would have to shoot around f11 or f14. For more this is not a good aperture for portraits because far too much of the photograph is sharp. The best solution would have been to use a ND filter on my camera as that may have allowed me to not require HSS and still be able to shoot at a wide aperture but unfortunately I didn't have one with me on this shoot
@@NeilRedfern Many thanks for your kind reply! Very informative and well explained!
Greatings from Bulgaria and best wishes!
Will a Godox 860 iii be powerfull enough?
It will struggle in brighter light I'm afraid - unless you have it very close to the subject. As the ambient light drops though it will be fine 😊
Hi! Amazing work! Ive been learning a lot from you.
I just one question though. I understand you want to shoot wide open but did you consider using an nd filter to lower your shutter speed to get full power from the flash?
Hello, what kind of tripods do you use or do you usually use? I see that they are magnetic or are they my ideas?
Hi Leonardo, they are Manfrotto mini stands. I really like them as they attach together so can be carried as one
Great vid, loving your channel. Do you find the Gordon 860ii hard to slide on to the mag grip. Mine is quite tight.
Thank you very much Paul! Yes, it can be - unfortunately the hotshoes on Godox speedlights are not as sturdy or well designed as from other manufacturers
2nd flash v860 how it is helping in this picture? Why you adding??one ad2oo isnt enough??
Yes, on some images I felt as though one speedlight wasn't enough - when the sun came through it was very bright
@@NeilRedfern thnak you now i got it. You are just amezing.respect & love from india.stay safe sir❤
My pleasure, thank you very much Soumoyadeep
Incredible shots! Question - that is the bracket you are using to mount your GoPro?
Thank you very much! It is just a cheap L shaped bracket bought from Amazon but works well :)
@@NeilRedfern thank you. Btw- love your channel
@@vvassall28 thank you so much! Very kind of you
Will your LIghtroom presets work in Adobe Bridge? I use Bridge rather than Lightroom.
Love your work, by the way.
Hi Dan, I am afraid they won't unfortunately. Thank you very much for the kind words :)
Bro which camera ur using
I use a Sony A9
@@NeilRedfern thank you bro
Tutorial on your edits??? As in how you remove the lights in post??
Hi Dago - I edited these particular images in Photoshop and cloned out the posts using content aware fill. I will be making a full tutorial video for my Patreon in the next few days in which I will show you exactly how I edited this set
@@NeilRedfern awesome!!! keep up the good work!!
@@NeilRedfern Greetings from Melbourne, Australia. Great video. I just started to watch your video, they are nice. As Dago, I would like to learn the techniques you used in editing these photos. Especially how you changed the colour of the sunlight. Looking forward to you post on edits.
Awesome 😎
Thank you! 😊
Incredible photos! Thanks for filming this. One question: what did you use to quickly attach your ad200 to the light stand? In one scene it looked like you used the MagMod MagShoe - but that has a hot shoe attachment and the AD200 has no shoe attachment.
The AD200 can be screwed onto a light stand.
when you buy a magshoe they give you the little hexagonal cold shoe bolt which you can screw into the AD200
Great photos Neil. What was the shoot location?
The beach? near the water. Have you been there?
What program did you use to edit out the lights?
I cloned them out in Photoshop :) I will be making a full tutorial video of how I edited these images for my Patreon in the next week :)
@@NeilRedfern BTW beautiful photos
Neil,wie immer wunderschön.
Ich danke dir sehr! Sehr nett
tell us the temp relay cold does not mean much thank you
I don't know exactly? It was cold 😂
You should have used a ND filter so you could have avoid having to have HSS to get more from the flash.
You are right but I didn't have one in my bag - these were not the shots I had planned to take. But yes, ND filters are great!
@@NeilRedfern lol i was going to ask if you were not a fan of them.. great shots!!
Hi. I would like to send you some of my photos and get your feedback. Thank you
Beautiful images,but I can't understand why you don't use a nd filter. I use much less flash power and recycles much faster
And I would never do that to my model. Poor woman
nd filter wouldve been helpful i bet
The grid never décrease power. the magsphere yes... 6'40"
Wóooóooloow....neil
Thank you very much Mario!
🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😍😍
Thank you!
Windddd
Great pics, but her skin looks Orange in the edited photos
He could get a 400 watt light and be done with it 😂
This is true but I don't own one 😂
Alsome
You’re worried about dust spots and here you are cloning out the tripod stands?! Come on Neil, be honest with us, you know perfectly well you don’t have to use high speed sync, and you would have gotten the same exact results.
Hi Rich, shooting at f12 or thereabouts will make the foreground and background look very different than if shooting at 1.8, it would make the foreground very much in focus which I always avoid with portraits. What I should have done was use an ND filter really but I wouldn't shoot at a narrow aperture in this situation regardless. Cloning out the light stands is unavoidable