Hi Hien Tongo I mentioned it before, but i really love you flash lessons. The fact that you can not edit your videos does not matter to me. The contents is what is important and that is perfect !! The way you explain everything is really good. I learned to use my flash in a professional way now, thanks to you. I hope you will continue making lessons on photography. Regards, Hans The Netherlands
This has to be the best video explaining the camera/flash set up I have seen. I have never used the manual mode before, but I can't wait to try it out. Thank you @Hien Tongho for sharing!
Thank you. By setting the camera to all manual, we eliminate the variables that often drive us photographers crazy...(some good, some bad, mostly bad). This method will give you many more good pictures than bad. Oh, don't forget to bounce the flash :). I recognize that my video is rather plain...only if I know how to process video like I can with pictures, I can show you the actual pictures that I have taken. I will work towards learning how to do video :).
@@TonghoPhotography, I tried over the weekend to take flash photos, with my camera set on Manual mode and I have to admit that the results were outstanding and repeatable. Thank you for this wonderful tip. Using the camera in manual mode works for still photography, but how does it handle live subjects with changing environment? Your advise is greatly appreciated.
@@Tuyendiep Glad you found it useful. Many professional wedding photographers use this method. When we use flash, a wedding or party environment is about the fastest-changing conditions we would have to deal with. If you change rooms, then you should reassess the exposure once (-1 or -2 f/stop) for that room then shoot away. If live objects are moving a lot, you'd want to change the shutter speed to be faster and compensate by changing ISO...then shoot away until the live subjects stop moving then you'd adjust the speed to minimize the ISO. Remember ETTL takes care of exposure. Even when you use full manual mode without the flash ETTL, the Manual mode should not interfere with shooting live subjects. You adjust the exposure triangle (Av, Tv, ISO once) for each series of shots. Using M requires more forethought and more work on your part. But that is what makes it better because you do not leave it to chances. It takes practice but after a while, you get used to it and it takes less than 3 seconds to set up. I use nothing but M mode in all of my shootings. The only time I switch over to M mode with auto ISO is to shoot birds in flight and sports. In this case, I use exposure compensation to fix the exposures as needed. Most of my pictures come out of the camera with correct exposure and that makes the post-processing job a lot easier :).
@@TonghoPhotography , thank you for sharing this wonderful technique. You make a believer out of me. Too bad I didn’t know this earlier at my niece’s wedding LOL.
@@Tuyendiep Have you heard of PSCVN (Vietnamese Photographic Society of California)? I'd like to invite you to join the club on Facebook facebook.com/groups/Official.PSCVN The club shares photography knowledge and provides a "playground" for like-minded photographers....
Hi Hien Tongo
I mentioned it before, but i really love you flash lessons.
The fact that you can not edit your videos does not matter to me.
The contents is what is important and that is perfect !!
The way you explain everything is really good.
I learned to use my flash in a professional way now, thanks to you.
I hope you will continue making lessons on photography.
Regards,
Hans
The Netherlands
Wow...thank you so much Hans. I really appreciate it.
This has to be the best video explaining the camera/flash set up I have seen. I have never used the manual mode before, but I can't wait to try it out. Thank you @Hien Tongho for sharing!
Thank you. By setting the camera to all manual, we eliminate the variables that often drive us photographers crazy...(some good, some bad, mostly bad). This method will give you many more good pictures than bad. Oh, don't forget to bounce the flash :). I recognize that my video is rather plain...only if I know how to process video like I can with pictures, I can show you the actual pictures that I have taken. I will work towards learning how to do video :).
@@TonghoPhotography, I tried over the weekend to take flash photos, with my camera set on Manual mode and I have to admit that the results were outstanding and repeatable. Thank you for this wonderful tip. Using the camera in manual mode works for still photography, but how does it handle live subjects with changing environment? Your advise is greatly appreciated.
@@Tuyendiep Glad you found it useful. Many professional wedding photographers use this method. When we use flash, a wedding or party environment is about the fastest-changing conditions we would have to deal with. If you change rooms, then you should reassess the exposure once (-1 or -2 f/stop) for that room then shoot away. If live objects are moving a lot, you'd want to change the shutter speed to be faster and compensate by changing ISO...then shoot away until the live subjects stop moving then you'd adjust the speed to minimize the ISO. Remember ETTL takes care of exposure. Even when you use full manual mode without the flash ETTL, the Manual mode should not interfere with shooting live subjects. You adjust the exposure triangle (Av, Tv, ISO once) for each series of shots. Using M requires more forethought and more work on your part. But that is what makes it better because you do not leave it to chances. It takes practice but after a while, you get used to it and it takes less than 3 seconds to set up. I use nothing but M mode in all of my shootings. The only time I switch over to M mode with auto ISO is to shoot birds in flight and sports. In this case, I use exposure compensation to fix the exposures as needed. Most of my pictures come out of the camera with correct exposure and that makes the post-processing job a lot easier :).
@@TonghoPhotography , thank you for sharing this wonderful technique. You make a believer out of me. Too bad I didn’t know this earlier at my niece’s wedding LOL.
@@Tuyendiep Have you heard of PSCVN (Vietnamese Photographic Society of California)? I'd like to invite you to join the club on Facebook
facebook.com/groups/Official.PSCVN
The club shares photography knowledge and provides a "playground" for like-minded photographers....
thanks for this, your videos are always nice to watch and you can even learn something from them 🤭😁
Thank you Jani!