3 Alternative Uses for Ring Flash - Take and make great photos with gavin hoey - Adorama tv

in this video I show you three alternative ways to use a ring flash Adorama TV presents take and make great photography with Gavin Hoey for you learn how to take stunning photos and then polished and in post-production I I'm Gavin Hoey and watching Adorama TV brought to you by Adorama the camera still has everything aspetto prefers and today I'm joining this to you by iffy he's a grime artist of some repute here in the UK and we're gonna take some pictures of him using the Orbis ring flash now ring flash is a gray and most people use ring flash is exactly why I'm doing here just grabbing a flash in shooting straight through the middle I gave a wonderful result you get a very distinctive flack almost had a slight that so popular with passion photography but these things can be much more than just that they're not a one-trick pony they can be used in also two different ways to create amazing portrays and what happened three different ways right now so for of a set up we're gonna do something a little different we're not gonna shoot through the whole of their the ring flash would you can use the ring flash as if it was a small softbox so to trigger this off-camera I'm gonna use the pop-up flash on my Canon 60d that says master and the Canon 580 EX not to flash is set as the slave so we can do off-camera flash we need to do is just satellite up okay be ready okay so i cant we hooked up we offer a column mean dark look with this one so I will guess get the ally tango de vere and we're gonna fly at high but only just that a shot so it's gonna come up ran out there try not to hit you with the light thanks pretty kid okay thank at were on full power with the flash I'm on f8 ISO 100 with the camera to take a test shot and see how that goes so much Asia Pac and it's pretty good I reckon got it pretty much *** on the Evo it a little bit too much of the on is in the picture and I want this actually have the eyes disappear I want have a really mean feeling by taking the either way thats I P what will get site important could refile forward at better at perfect I'm gonna get a shot just like that wonderful now because we got no light hitting the eyes and that's kinda the idea I do have to watch the position the light to me that Justin inch or two forward and the position is critical just a tiny little bit and it makes all the difference to the shot okay so that's a really good shot just simply using the the Orbis as an off-camera softbox as many things around again and do something different so for the second set up we're gonna do something very similar we still gonna keep the flash off-camera and we're gonna keep it really close to if the so we get some beautiful soft lighting now remember when it comes to soft lighting the size at the light source relative to the subject is what makes the lighting soft and how to find out more information about stuff like check out the Adorama Learning Center some great tips and advice now you don't have to stick with just the Orbis ring flash you can make splashes together so as well as the ring flash I've got two more clashes in the background and they're gonna be facing the camera so what should happen this is the idea they should go fire flash we're gonna be touring lighting around iffy and you get some great flair but then if he's gonna be lit by the their remain flat itself to put some great light in the face that's the idea now to get if they were really well if he's actually do some vocal peace to the flash okay so he's actually looking up at a light to get some light in the face okay let's take some pictures okay anything it's just thought what a shock for me said he gonna take a little step that why we can we do it a shot before we get going okay so a quick 10 shocked important because if you don't get a shot you don't know what you gonna get and i'm looking at this i'm saying that looks a little bit dark I could go around and change all the lights but looking at my camera hey I'm on f8 if I open up the aperture a little bit say let's go to F 4 that gonna give me more light from all other flashes and hopefully make this a bit brighter one more test show pretty and perfect exactly what I'm after okay so my lighter set if you ready yeah yeah okay way here %uh some phones I E abuse my confidence money the sack looking in a mirror justify PC the future now about Manchester Obama's about the bridge was gonna have a TV halted for a hot chocolate for the options they said a jack of all trades laws or rules on the jack-of-all-trades almost always boo mp3 hot lot and is not on the bridge talk about this trip I need on tap for a pic don't forget to check out around his latest contest and your chance to win amazing prizes for the third set up we're gonna go back to using the the ring flash and the camera and they just took together with a little ETTL cord because I only use this as a little off-camera softbox but it never got any more than a few well inches away from the camera but we can get some great reflections at this thing so we got a free here wearing very stylish pair Ray Bans looking super smart and we're gonna use the the sunglasses to reflect the shape all the Orbis ring flash back to the camera okay let's take a few pitches and see how these guys okay so you want to write back against the wall and furnace or slingback an *** the way Sep okay so what I'm doing and i'm looking in the reflection in the glass is not try to see my my ring flash when I say etna take a shot and that's gonna put the the flash straight back as a reflection I'm gonna get a great deal shot that way science committee replace whatever really wide angle shot with no he wouldn't do with portrayed but on something like iffy Ryan artist extraordinaire I I worked pretty well it okay so what I've done is I've taken my it my all BS and I printed off a little circle and with a bit if they're cutting in and sticking I just made this little star patented around the outside now the reflection when I get back from this is gonna be well different to the normal ring as you will okay here we go man's gonna come in here in and it reflects back with a circle of stars absolutely brilliant okay so for the very last show I just switch lenses I've switched to a fish-eye lens which known as we don't recommend report rates but in this case if he's kind of a stylish guy and this is going to be a real style I shot has given well you guys say when you come in here and the fish I became I don't get my own I'm flash in the shop but we get some great shots with the your best flicking back stars in his eyes quite literally and that really does look really smart I love seemed okay so there we go there are three different things you can do with an everyday ring flash that is in traditional ring flash photography or experimenting about trying different ideas and seeing what works and what doesn't now we need to do is get why these pages into Photoshop and what isn't anything on it right now it's always great when he come out on a shoot with lots of pictures in fact too many to choose from for editing purposes but the 1 I'm gonna do is one from the early part of the shoe where we use the your with ring flash simply isn't off-camera small soft box so this is the raw file where he resided Photoshop CC although this would be exactly the same if you're in Lightroom develop module now really the first thing I'm gonna do is why I what I had in my head and that was to take the clarity slider really push this hard and normally with clarity we'll get the other way we can soften things out but this season that kinda portrayed this is a hard gritty very low Nikki moody shot and this will take lots and lots clarity making I'm gonna do it just have a look at the blacks in this picture because it really is low-key I'm gonna turn on the clipping warning for the blacks and I can see there are a few but not as many as I would like so let's get the black slider modest polish down into basically everything goes black okay we can turn off the mornings now that's fine so now I now got some really nice deep blacks in their that will give this picture really that low key feel those AV oppressive blacks whites yet we can provide a with a little bit more whites in here as well gee I asked to give and that will brightness but you look at the histogram and if you didn't see the pitching you think this is a very underexposed paycheck that's why histogram should only ever be used as a guide rather than the rule because it's a and absolutely fine come as well much gonna bring the vibrance down on this pitcher Justin mutes the Collins down a little bit something like that but I will push the saturation up a tiny bit just so we don't lose one color in there and I give me again at nice kind of color scheme okay now that everything I want to do here as far as the global changes guy is in finish up role and Leitrim are able to the back label changes and local changes and by local changes I mean using a paintbrush and the brush here in Photoshop rule is this one the adjustment brush so with the just brush I can change all sorts of things but the thing i really wanna change my man is probably just the highlights so on Photoshop I can just simply click the minus sign everything else gets reset and I can just bring the highlights down because these are the brightest part so the picture I don't want them to be Senate discover those out maybe not quite as dark as that I want the the mouth area in the face to be the brightest part so that's making pretty good now obviously we have the issue with the the hoodie and actually this is my hoodie know if these II loneliness for the purposes of photography site there's any style issues is not because he's in stylish is because the bar at my jacket but the hoodies in a way to try and make sense that is being big lift for bob is net so that's where the bright parts gonna be and we just needed time that and just a little bit so here with the adjustment brush I'll add a new pain and this time I'm just gonna set the exposure again minus two stops got a nice big brash and we just lose the pain I over the top of his head like that okay that's pretty good now they do it again say let's make another new brash and most are and different place to get the pin in a different place with paint in the eighties just to soften that down okay now that feels much more menacing now that's good last thing is the eye is now I deliberately let the eyes go dark that was part and parcel of the show and the look they're not completely dark I have a have a close look when you have a close look you'll be able to say that things aren't totally dark in the eyes which is the main and here and there aren't gas the merest hint there depending on how you got money to set up you may just be a to see them just to bring out just a tiny little bit I'm gonna get the shadows will make another new brush and will make the shadows just a little bit brighter jester bring a tiny little bit detail out from that part of the picture okay so cast little bit brighter on the shadows so there is the in devise maybe it's a little bit more clarity on there as well just say they come through now trouble is if you go to do something like that again even closer you will see there is quite a bit in no way starting to here and I am I not on no noise reduction at two so far when I would do here it is funny noise reduction for that pain and it's just make sure we're working on the right in we r I say I'm gonna take the noise reduction all the way up to maximum and will bring them or a reduction up as well that helps to remove this stripey lines that you can sometimes get so there we go Pats a great pitcher and a great result and using the or between clashes really given us some creative options now you wanna see more videos from myself and the other amazing present is here at Adorama TV you got a click on the subscribe button yeah i'm 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