I have been photographing for a few years, had exhibitions, watched online courses and videos but nothing gave me so much clarity as your videos. And also, I really hated flash photography until this video here! I followed you on IG as well, learning a lot from you even though we have very different styles!
Hi Sir Jiggie! Watching this video in 2023! As new photographer, this inspires me so much to do better and experiment with out craft! Thank you for a timeless and classic tutorial. More power po! ❤
Thank you for this. After watching tons of videos and spent money on tutorials, this is by far the best, and easy to understand, breakdown of flash photography. Thank you!!
VERY useful! Now that you explained that the shutter speed controls the ambient light, & the aperture controls the flash, I bet I will have more successful off-camera flash images, & will also succeed with experimental ideas. Also helpful: all the properly exposed vs flash examples. Thank you for this video! Salute!
I would love to have seen the photo's before the post processing was done. I am sure tweaks were made and that is a lot of work to get just so. Amazing photographer!
I learned off camera flash lighting from Monte Zucker, the photographer / teacher who introduced it to wedding coverage back when it switched to color prints and photographers discovered the flash on camera techniques they had used when shooting B&W couldn’t record a full range of detail in black suits and white dress at the same time. Studio photographer had solved the color print range problem by starting with neutral centered fill over the camera, or bounced off a white wall behind the camera to duplicate natural skylight fill with power adjusted until detail was recorded in the shadows at the desired aperture for DOF. Then to expose the highlights correctly on the shorter range color prints a Key light was added on top of the Fill, usually placed 45° to nose of subject for ideal 3D modeling of the nose and the creation of a ‘Mask” of highlights on forehead, eyes, cheeks, mouth and chin. What Monte did was mount a Graflex electronic flash 16” over the lens of the camera using a custom bracket he had made for his TLR Rolleiflex 2.8 with a second identical flash mounted on a modified medical IV pole which had a compact, stable cast steel base with casters, triggered optically by a simple Wein photocell trigger - all high tech back in the late 1960s. Exposure and light ratio were controlled by applying the inverse square law, shooting from 16, 11, 8 or 5.6 feet with Fill at that distance with the off camera flash places at 11, 8, 5.6 or 4 ft, respectively to keep it 2x brighter than the fill. Our baseline aperture was f/8 @ 11ft shooting distance, changing to f/11 @ 8ft and f/16 @ 5.6 and f/8 if moving out to 16 ft for a wide shot. What made it simple and so effective at capturing the full range of detail was always having foundational fill for the shadow on the camera over the lens on the bracket. My career took me behind the camera reproducing photos at the National Geographic the managing offset printing of magazines commercially and at a USIA printing center in Manila Philippines in a 29 year Foreign Service career but for my personal work I continued to use and teach that same two-flash Key / Fill approach, with digital camera since 2000 using a Stroboframe Camera-flip bracket, first with Vivitar and then in 2004 Canon ETTL flashes. Outdoors in sunlight with my Canon ETTL-II flashes I keep the A:B / Fill:Key ratio set to 1:2 which will record a full range of detail, using the sun as rim-light, Group A fill on bracket on camera and Group B Key on stand. After adjusting aperture for desired DOF and shutter and ISO to keep sunlit whites 1/3 below clipping in the playback all that is needed is an FEC adjustment to expose the front of a white dress or shirt in the shade of the sunlight 1/3 stop below the sunlit whites and 2/3 stop below clipping.
Loved the photos. I think it may be the best video on the subject I've seen so far. Good job. Plus: I'm really impressed with the light control in the video recording; so many photographers (who shoot amazing pictures) have weird lighting in their video narrations - you're in full control of it. Wonderful.
Wow, truly stunning imagery. Thank you so much. This is exactly the type of video I love. The before and after with explanation of settings really helps close the disconnect between how my "properly exposed" (aka boring) looking pics look and how other photographers are able to create such impressive dramatic art. Please continue these videos. You are awesome
Man those shots with the light inside the car and inside the phone cabin, so gorgeous! I learned so much with this video, I can't wait to try it out! Thank you so much!!
Your timeline around 1120 you mentioned your assistant took the picture, and you preferred your pic. I Myself choose his as it more of non common photo, and you can crop in if needed. Your chosen pic doesn't really set a tone other than just a standard picture, with the shadows directly behind them. However both images are cool. Thanks for your provided info.
Highly recommended your contents to anyone who would like to follow photography as professional, hobby, part timers or any other. Valuable content. Keep your good work. 🤗
Thanks Jiggy!! Great video!! I just started planing on using off camera flash… I bought 4 used YN600 flashes and one Godex ad200 with no instructions??!! This video is very helpful.
Been using my off cam flash for awhile and this tutorial really helped me alot in using my flash properly. I a beginner photographer here., More videos to come sir☺️
Wow, I'm impressed. You are really an artist. I'm only a hobby photographer, but I see the big difference in using a flash, so I want to try this in my small world of photography. Many thanks.
I would say this is the best video ever found in you tube .So inspiring & your explaining skill is so understandable. Thank you so much for your valuable tips. M looking forward to see more.
These. Are some amazing shots I am learning every void I was able to take my A1 out by the pool today with my gm135 and a magmod spear it was a bright day you make it look so easy I have a long way to go.but I am learning every time I try,thank you for taking the time to explain step by step and remembering we all mostly learning
வீடியோ மிகவும் பயனுள்ளதாக இருந்தது மிக்க நன்றி 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 இரா.மனோகர் சென்னை . Very useful video sir, I learned lot from it, looking forward more videos like this keep it up good work, thanks a lot sir big thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 R.MANOHAR Chennai.
Hello, loved this video! Some of the shots like the last one you didn't show the light placement. Also some of the shots you didn't show the camera settings. I know our setting would be different for each adventure but it's nice to know what setting you used for each. I heard you say it but it's better for us if we see it. I concluded with a thumbs up!
You really know your stuff. Love the way you show the original shot, then explain IN detail your setting of camera and flash. And your post work is just amazing. I’d like to see some editing videos.
Putting the flash inside their umbrella was genius. Not something you would think of, but you should, because that is where flashes normally live, lol.
Many thanks for making this tutorial, it covers all important topics I have learnt over a period of time. This will be my go to video when I need a quick refresh of concepts related to OCF photography.
New subscriber here!! Thank you so much for sharing a bit of your knowledge Sir Jiggie. Can't wait to apply some of what I've learned from this tutorial. Stay safe and God bless
THE BEST video I have ever seen explaining the concepts of off-camera flash.
Me too
Didn’t know I would get so hooked to a PowerPoint presentasion.
Knowledge and inspiration went from 25% to 100%!
Glad you enjoyed it
@@JiggieAlejandrino aperture control flash exposure if flash in manual only right jiggie? Thanks
I have been photographing for a few years, had exhibitions, watched online courses and videos but nothing gave me so much clarity as your videos. And also, I really hated flash photography until this video here! I followed you on IG as well, learning a lot from you even though we have very different styles!
That’s great to Hear! :)
I've never seen a guy so creative wow
You are becoming one of my new favorite RUclipsrs. Love your creativity!
🙏
This is, by far, the most understandable off-camera flash video I’ve seen. Thank you!!!
You’re welcome
Possibly the best RUclips video on the subject
Hi Sir Jiggie! Watching this video in 2023! As new photographer, this inspires me so much to do better and experiment with out craft! Thank you for a timeless and classic tutorial. More power po! ❤
I just learned more from you in 19 mins...2 years of trying to get simple explanations ...Much respect and more like this please..
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this. After watching tons of videos and spent money on tutorials, this is by far the best, and easy to understand, breakdown of flash photography. Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it
excellent video, you took up the topics that most of us beginner photogrpaher face. Thanks for you effort!
VERY useful! Now that you explained that the shutter speed controls the ambient light, & the aperture controls the flash, I bet I will have more successful off-camera flash images, & will also succeed with experimental ideas. Also helpful: all the properly exposed vs flash examples. Thank you for this video! Salute!
Thanks very much, really enjoyed this, great photos. Cheers Dave.🌅
Love your photos, and tutorial. Thank you.
This video clearly explained about flash photography. You are a good teacher.
The best tutorial I've seen on OCF. Thanks!
So many tips and tricks I have learned from this video . Many thanks to you for sharing !!
I wanted to know more about flash photography because I don't really know much about flash photography. This video is so useful!!!! Thank you!!
You’re welcome!
One of the best tutorials about flash on youtube ! kudos to you for sharing.
Thank you :)
Awesome! You’re great at breaking the essentials and sharing recipes - thanks !
Thank you again, I watch this over and over again to improve my off camera flash improvements
You’re welcome
What an absolutely wonderful video! Thank you for posting
You’re most welcome
I would love to have seen the photo's before the post processing was done. I am sure tweaks were made and that is a lot of work to get just so. Amazing photographer!
Wow, thanks for the great video. I will come back to this video a few time.
I think this is one of the best simple explanation of off camera flash photography. Hats off Sir!
Thanks :)
Wide range of examples and love the BTS on each shot and settings overlaid. Very useful
Absolutely a brilliant video ❤ thank you, really appreciated
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is one of the best tutorials about using flash.great thanks
🙏
This was amazing to watch. I am finally ready to attempt off-camera flash use.
Wow, thanks so much for your video. I really love your work. Congratulations.
Very good video, it is specific, going into the details and bring your experience, i learn much from it, thank you!
I learned off camera flash lighting from Monte Zucker, the photographer / teacher who introduced it to wedding coverage back when it switched to color prints and photographers discovered the flash on camera techniques they had used when shooting B&W couldn’t record a full range of detail in black suits and white dress at the same time.
Studio photographer had solved the color print range problem by starting with neutral centered fill over the camera, or bounced off a white wall behind the camera to duplicate natural skylight fill with power adjusted until detail was recorded in the shadows at the desired aperture for DOF. Then to expose the highlights correctly on the shorter range color prints a Key light was added on top of the Fill, usually placed 45° to nose of subject for ideal 3D modeling of the nose and the creation of a ‘Mask” of highlights on forehead, eyes, cheeks, mouth and chin.
What Monte did was mount a Graflex electronic flash 16” over the lens of the camera using a custom bracket he had made for his TLR Rolleiflex 2.8 with a second identical flash mounted on a modified medical IV pole which had a compact, stable cast steel base with casters, triggered optically by a simple Wein photocell trigger - all high tech back in the late 1960s.
Exposure and light ratio were controlled by applying the inverse square law, shooting from 16, 11, 8 or 5.6 feet with Fill at that distance with the off camera flash places at 11, 8, 5.6 or 4 ft, respectively to keep it 2x brighter than the fill. Our baseline aperture was f/8 @ 11ft shooting distance, changing to f/11 @ 8ft and f/16 @ 5.6 and f/8 if moving out to 16 ft for a wide shot.
What made it simple and so effective at capturing the full range of detail was always having foundational fill for the shadow on the camera over the lens on the bracket. My career took me behind the camera reproducing photos at the National Geographic the managing offset printing of magazines commercially and at a USIA printing center in Manila Philippines in a 29 year Foreign Service career but for my personal work I continued to use and teach that same two-flash Key / Fill approach, with digital camera since 2000 using a Stroboframe Camera-flip bracket, first with Vivitar and then in 2004 Canon ETTL flashes.
Outdoors in sunlight with my Canon ETTL-II flashes I keep the A:B / Fill:Key ratio set to 1:2 which will record a full range of detail, using the sun as rim-light, Group A fill on bracket on camera and Group B Key on stand. After adjusting aperture for desired DOF and shutter and ISO to keep sunlit whites 1/3 below clipping in the playback all that is needed is an FEC adjustment to expose the front of a white dress or shirt in the shade of the sunlight 1/3 stop below the sunlit whites and 2/3 stop below clipping.
Loved the photos. I think it may be the best video on the subject I've seen so far. Good job. Plus: I'm really impressed with the light control in the video recording; so many photographers (who shoot amazing pictures) have weird lighting in their video narrations - you're in full control of it. Wonderful.
And just like that I understand how useful a flash can be
Wow, truly stunning imagery. Thank you so much. This is exactly the type of video I love. The before and after with explanation of settings really helps close the disconnect between how my "properly exposed" (aka boring) looking pics look and how other photographers are able to create such impressive dramatic art. Please continue these videos. You are awesome
You’re most welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video, there’s more in the channel :)
Man those shots with the light inside the car and inside the phone cabin, so gorgeous! I learned so much with this video, I can't wait to try it out! Thank you so much!!
You’re most welcome
What a great tutorial. I am definitely returning to this one often.
Please do!
Changes in aperture effect both flash and ambient as well. Great video.
Thank you
What’s great teacher. Very informative and great conveyance of these concepts.
Glad you think so!
I just bought my first flash and this has shown me so much
salamat Master for this rich School of Thought
Your timeline around 1120 you mentioned your assistant took the picture, and you preferred your pic. I Myself choose his as it more of non common photo, and you can crop in if needed. Your chosen pic doesn't really set a tone other than just a standard picture, with the shadows directly behind them. However both images are cool. Thanks for your provided info.
Wow, that was wild! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed
Love how you explained the concepts for off-camera flash. Great shots!
Thank you
Absolutely stunning work! 🤩✨ quite the inspiration to learn how to work with flash.
Amazing video. From start to finish. And your sunset pics are amazing. Respect.
Thanks
Great video! I learned alot, thanks for sharing the knowledge! 🙏
Such a superb explanation for a semi-professional like me - gratitude.
🙏
Excellent definition. Weldon jiggie.
Thanks
Very informative. Thanks for sharing Jiggie! Stay safe!
You’re welcome
These are some of your best work, your one of the best. Yahoo from GEORGIA thanks
Im a newbie here sir but Im learning a lot from your channel sir🤩🤩🤩🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
awesome video! love the demos, chart, and example shots!
Perfect video, amazing photos!
Thanks :)
Your photos are fantastic, thank you
Highly recommended your contents to anyone who would like to follow photography as professional, hobby, part timers or any other.
Valuable content. Keep your good work. 🤗
Thanks for that!
Wonderful education and fantastic way of lecturing. I have learned a lot. Thank you
You’re welcome
Thank you SO MUCH. I'm a photography student whose studio/lighting classes were ruined by COVID. This was such a huge help!
Glad to hear that
wow, amazing shots and video.
Thank you so much for the very simple explanations, and for sharing your knowledge. This is Gold!
Glad you enjoyed it
Some excellent images and a fantastic tutorial of how you produced them .... Thank You 😊
You’re welcome :)
I have ever seen explaining the concepts of off-camera flash thanks
Thanks Jiggy!! Great video!! I just started planing on using off camera flash… I bought 4 used YN600 flashes and one Godex ad200 with no instructions??!! This video is very helpful.
Been using my off cam flash for awhile and this tutorial really helped me alot in using my flash properly. I a beginner photographer here., More videos to come sir☺️
Check out the rest of the videos in the channel :)
This is an absolutely amazing look at using a flash, would love to see more
There’s a lot more in the channel
Wow, I'm impressed. You are really an artist. I'm only a hobby photographer, but I see the big difference in using a flash, so I want to try this in my small world of photography. Many thanks.
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful
Beautiful work, mate ❤️
Another quality content!
You spoil us sir jiggie. hehehe
learned new photography knowledge again.
Thank you sir jiggie!
Let’s hope I don’t run out of things to say! Hahaha
Now I am thinking to learn and making notes in right order as all these informations are worth to save .
:)
wow, thank you! fantastic video!
Dis is amazing 💯 nd mind blowing ' thk u for sharing ur knowledge 👍
I would say this is the best video ever found in you tube .So inspiring & your explaining skill is so understandable. Thank you so much for your valuable tips. M looking forward to see more.
Glad you enjoyed the video, there are a lot more in the channel
an hour of watching your videos here totally worth it, thank you so much,Kabayan! I have learned a lot in Flash photography!
You’re welcome!
My favourite youtuber ☺
Fantastic to hear that :)
Beautiful Creative Portraits
Thanks
WOW!!! You are talented AND a good teacher. Definitely subscribed
Thanks for subbing!
These. Are some amazing shots I am learning every void I was able to take my A1 out by the pool today with my gm135 and a magmod spear it was a bright day you make it look so easy I have a long way to go.but I am learning every time I try,thank you for taking the time to explain step by step and remembering we all mostly learning
Let me know when you’re ready to take the one on one class :)
@@JiggieAlejandrino soon as I find time I would love this more than you know, so I can put all this gear to good use I am heavy invested in Sony
@@JiggieAlejandrino when is a good time and we’re do we start
What a phenomenal video!
Thank you
வீடியோ மிகவும் பயனுள்ளதாக இருந்தது மிக்க நன்றி 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
இரா.மனோகர் சென்னை .
Very useful video sir, I learned lot from it, looking forward more videos like this keep it up good work, thanks a lot sir
big thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
R.MANOHAR
Chennai.
You're most welcome, glad you are enjoying the channel
You are becoming one of my new favorite RUclipsrs. Love your creativity!😘
Thanks!
Thanks a lot bro 🤠😎! Very accurate information!
super teaching , really very very simple and lot of things learned thank you
You’re welcome
Those were some fantastic photographs. Thank you very much for all the amazing information sir! It was very very helpful!!!
You’re most welcome, glad you are enjoying your videos
Great information, thank you so much for taking the time to do these videos about flash photography! They are very helpful! Well done!
You’re most welcome
Thanks, Jiggie.........that was magic with light. I just subscribed.
Thanks!!!
Great content Jiggie...deserves a follow. Look forward to more from you...B
Welcome
Hello, loved this video! Some of the shots like the last one you didn't show the light placement. Also some of the shots you didn't show the camera settings. I know our setting would be different for each adventure but it's nice to know what setting you used for each. I heard you say it but it's better for us if we see it. I concluded with a thumbs up!
Great content, 1 more sub - many thanks for taking the time to share your tips on all those shots, great added value !
Welcome to the channel
New Sunscriber here. Love your creativity Jiggie. I will be binge watching all your work today. Thanks!
Thank you!! Hope you enjoy the rest of the videos!
Your work is excellent. Thanks for the video.
Thank you and you’re welcome
You really know your stuff. Love the way you show the original shot, then explain IN detail your setting of camera and flash. And your post work is just amazing. I’d like to see some editing videos.
Check this video out: ruclips.net/video/LDClqbBL9vg/видео.html and be surprised on how little post processing is done
Putting the flash inside their umbrella was genius. Not something you would think of, but you should, because that is where flashes normally live, lol.
Many thanks for making this tutorial, it covers all important topics I have learnt over a period of time. This will be my go to video when I need a quick refresh of concepts related to OCF photography.
🙏
New subscriber here!! Thank you so much for sharing a bit of your knowledge Sir Jiggie. Can't wait to apply some of what I've learned from this tutorial. Stay safe and God bless
Welcome to the channel :)
Amazing use of light Sir.
Thanks for sharing.
You’re most welcome
This is valuable knowledge.. like a real photography course
Glad you think so!
I enjoy your studio layout.
😁
In this video now I can shoot without higher shutter speed it is proper aperture for more darker thank you very much sir
You’re welcome
Finally found your youtube channel, I'm one of your followers on IG. Thank you for putting this kind of input, you are amazing Sir Jiggie.
You're so welcome!
Clear explanation..Thank you so much!! Love from Tamilnadu ,India❤
Glad it was helpful!