I’m absolutely thrilled to welcome you to my new series of videos for Adorama TV. The name Take and make great photos should give you a clue as to what I’ll be doing in these tutorials. For me the photography doesn’t stop once I’ve taken the photo and I wanted to show that in the videos, so the Take + Make series will feature both photography and Photoshop.
We’re kicking off with a simple but powerful off camera flash technique. In this case I’m using just a single speedlight to over power the ambient to create the hard, edgy portrait you see in the photo to the right. Then it’s into Photoshop for a bit of RAW processing to achieve the end result.
Equipment used in the video:
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 24-105mm L f/4 IS
BlackRapid RS-7 camera strap
Canon 580 EX ii
Canon ST-E2
Photoshop CS6
By using a dedicated flash trigger I could maintain TTL communication between the camera and the flash. That means no flash meters and no cap on the maximum shutter speed I could use.
Many camera’s have the the technology to remote fire a flash built right in. For example, Nikon users have CLS for off camera flash and on cameras like the Canon 7D and 60D the popup flash has the same ability as the ST-E” remote I used,
Very nice video. great addition to the Adorama lineup.
Hope to see you on CreativeLive next for a 3 days workshop instead of 10 mins clip…
Thank you.
Learned more from that video than i have in the past 18 months ive had my flash. Cheers
Now Adorama is complete. All of the great photografers at the same place – Bryan, Gavin and Mark What a team! I wish you good luck and locking forward to your next episode!
I love this short video and want to try this out at home. Can anyone tell me how to get a similar look with a Nikon Flash? I have tried to do this but I am unsure how to get a fast enough shutter speed. maybe I will have to do it a differnt way. Help! 🙂
Check out Auto FP High Speed Flash http://www.nikonusa.com/Learn-And-Explore/Nikon-Camera-Technology/Camera-Flashes.page
Gavin, are we witnessing the death of the 15 Minute Photo Challenge? :O
is there a website for Adorama TV?
I want to used this technique for a photo shoot soon. Any adivice using a 430ex and no transmitter, just the camera?
Awesome. I love it. thanks