Electronically Signing Wedding Photography Made Easy

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[Music] hello everyone welcome back to pixel village and I'm Brad haire krishnan now I know a lot of people I know through my friends I know directly and I also know many of them through the comments that I read in our videos that they are not really getting into photography because they don't have the right equipment in their hand while that may be true for a certain kind of photography for example let's say if you want to shoot a tiger in the wild of course you need a long lens and if you don't have a long lens then better not attempt it because it'll probably will be your first and last shoot if you attempt with any other lens you know shooting a tiger in the wild and if you want to shoot let's say a macro of jewelry a flower and insect of course you require a macro lens but that's for those specific needs but for majority of photographers all you need is a decent camera and a decent lens and a decent light the rest everything I would argue that it is limited by only your imagination to explain that very point in this video we thought we will use some equipments which probably according to us are the cheapest in the world to buy and use so how much can two thousand Indian rupees which is under $30.00 can buy in the photography world nothing much well let's see how much we can buy with this well you can buy one of these and still have some change with you it's called digitech d FL 0 8 8 it's a camera mounted flash of course it doesn't offer any of those frills that these new flashes are offering like the TTL s and the HSS and the short flash duration etc it is just a flash but a good one and probably the most cost-effective we will not really use the word cheap because cheap has many connotations so most cost-effective flash from digitech well this one has a guide number of 40 at hundred ISO guide number is probably the easiest way you can identify the power of a flash now this one has a guide number of 40 at 100 I saw it means that at 10 feet distance and at 100 I saw at full power of this flash you will get an aperture of 4 shutter speed as a material not really related to the flash because shutter speed doesn't really control the flash output well we tested that and we found that it is a little more powerful than f4 it actually gives you 5 6 so that's one and since it's only 2,000 rupees we thought we will get one more ok that's under 4000 bucks two flashes and with the change that is left our a small trigger 2 [Music] so two flashes and one trigger which means you can mount this flash on the camera and shoot it's got the bounce card it's got the diffuser the second flash can be used as a slave or both flashes can be off the camera uses trigger on the camera and trigger them from whichever direction that you want so I think it's a decent setup for any photographer especially someone who's getting into wedding photography and also how about getting some flash accessories too let's get it yes no this is not exactly what you think this is this is from digitech it's called the flash board it has a diffuser it's got a bounce card well something like a bounce card and it's got multiple gels it's got a funny comp a very well made flash accessory under three and a half thousand rupees and using this flash board and these two flashes let's get into a shoot and find out what kind of images are we able to get out of this I'm not really promising great glamorous images with these products it can actually create but what we going to see is how effectively one can use it and create very good looking images and probably encourage you to get out of your seat and start doing the job rather than thinking about that jackpot that you're going to hit one day and then you're going to buy all those fabulous equipments and then you go to go and get into those shoots into the shoot I have the DFL 0 8 8 mounted on the camera like I mentioned this flash doesn't have a TTL mode nor does it sync on high speed I have purposely selected an entry-level DSLR camera a crop sensor camera from Nikon called the d3 four zero zero because of these limitations we have to shoot in completely manual mode correct there is no electronics helping us to understand the flash output in such situations well two things can help you understand the flash output one will be ideally should have been the flash meter which of course we cannot even talk about because we are talking about the cheapest flash so flash meter is out of the way the second one is your own experience your I of course don't depend on your I completely refer to one of the videos that have done in the fast on how to understand the histogram and how not to trust your LCD especially the LCD of an entry-level DSLR so that's that's about the introduction let's go straight into the shoot and we have our wonderful models here already waiting for us ok so let me introduce them we have Pranab Joshi here he is he is a professional IT guy right and we have oh they are actually both from IT and pune and IT of course it goes hand in hand right then we have Mansi but were then I will add their instrumentals here in the frame follow them they're amazing people you must see their insta handles too so you know the drill are we gonna get into this shoot and you are today our models right ok so all the best ok see you and two three demonstrations and you will know exactly how to use this flash ok let's get into the action ok the first one that I'm going to try and do is to shoot without the flash and understand the ambient light and then add the flash ok before we start a couple of very elementary tips no TTL no HSS right because of which I need to work on speeds of 1 by 2 50th of a second or lower to start with I'm going to shoot in the ambient light without the flash then going to start adding the flash that's what I'm trying to add that now so let me take one shot nice now in this image I can see that their faces are completely underexposed now I'm going to add the flash now now the guide number of this flash is 40 which means at 10 feet will give you f/4 at 100 ISO at full power I am probably at about 4 8 feet 9 feet distance so let me not put the full power let me go to about 3/4 and let me see what the reading is let me take a shot ok that's it it's still high I need to go under that's right now if you look at this image it's pretty flat because I'm firing straight at them now let me do some indirect firing using the bounce card here okay let me see where there that's going to work here obviously it's going to reduce the amount of flash because it's going to bounce off the card let me increase the power and there I am so the light is much softer now now since there are two layers and they are standing in an angle I would require a little more depth in my shot which means I have to increase the aperture so I'm shooting at five six now at five six I'll get reasonably good depth so that I can get both people in my frame because I've closed down the aperture the light needs to be compensated and this flash is not sufficient in the bounce mode yeah at this distance it will not really give you sufficient exposure to light which means an to take the flash closer to them I can be here I can take the flash closer to them for which I need to use the flash trigger a basic trigger a 16 channel trigger which means you can synch with multiple flashes ok so the trigger is installed and I'm going to shoot now there are two ways to shoot I can if you're alone you can you know use one hand to hold the flash closer to them and then should use the flash or keep the flash in various directions and continue shooting but the danger is that you might introduce a little shake in the camera unless you have a very solid you know sturdy hand so I'm going to ask Aditya to join and help me to light this so I did yeah come in please bounce it from the ceiling that way okay so one more thing is since you're working with very basic flashes I recommend that well at the the maximum swing speed it might still introduce a little bit of you know dark areas it may not sink properly so if that happens don't panic just come one notch down to 200 and it'll solve the problem for you so let me show that to you here okay so I'm going to shoot at 1 by 250th of a second and alright yeah here you can see a little bit of dark area and let me now go to 1 by 2 hundredth of a second [Music] so let me introduce this sphere from flash board pick a boom stand from Amazon stores very easily available and of course you will need a help of an assistant so Aditya and what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to you know shoot at the full length here okay [Music] what I'm trying to now do is to use two flashes but remember there is no radio slave here they are photocells so you will either require a darkroom so that one flash can fire the other flash because of its you know sudden change in the light intensity okay or you have to use the trigger on the camera and the hot shoe on the trigger you should be mounting the the flash on camera flash well in which case this flash will fire and this trigger will fire the second flash very important when you work with DFL zero eight eight okay so you must remember this okay Aditya [Music] so now we have moved in those munsey's in front of the makeup table and I'm trying to use the gel and try and get some interesting shots here so I have the purple gel here with the zero eight eight using a boom arm what I'm going to do is I'm going to use this light the makeup lights as the key light and I'm going to use the color gel to kind of outline her hair and the kind of reading that I'm going to do is first I'm going to do an auto reading of her skin okay and then switch it to manual mode keep that same exposure throughout the you know shorts okay so that I don't get varied exposures because the problem with auto exposure is the moment you move the camera you know it will keep readjusting the you know shutter speed or the aperture depending on which mode you are in okay so let's get into the shoot oddity I need your help again right [Music] that's nice okay now profile complete profile yeah and you look at him okay yeah so this is what we shot amazing huh eh you like it hey thank you very much you guys look wonderful let's see you thank you and wish you tons of insta follows I want to give a special shout out this time okay thank you you can say bye to our viewers - I'll see you soon see you bye bye okay now let's get the lights on right okay what is that easy or what well did you well the most interesting question is did you like those images at all or what now this goes on to prove that you don't really require very expensive gear to create interesting images definitely not to start with [Music] what you really need in the first place is good imagination which obviously can't be bought you need to definitely cultivate it yourself these days the Big Brother Google he will give you or see who or what I don't still don't know they give you as many options as possible look at them pick the one which you like pick the one which is appropriate for that particular situation that you're going to shoot use that as your takeoff point right end of the day what you need is an interesting image however hard you try to copy something you will still leave your own stamp on the image that you create you may not do it on the day one but you will do it eventually the app there is nothing wrong in copying initially all right it'll start triggering the right and nerve joins in your brain and eventually you will start thinking original stuff so all you need is imagination and giving yourself a little bit of time well if you are someone who wants to learn photography of course we at pixel village have a brand new website pixel village.com is india's online photography education portal where we have put together some of the finest photography mentors taking classes just for you so in this 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