Ken...THANK YOU for tapping into the SCIENCE of photography, because as we all SHOULD KNOW it’s art AND science...that’s an indisputable FACT! I’m a military electronics technician and when you started touching on wave propagation the connections started buzzing! 😜. Keep it up! 👌🏽🤙🏽👍🏽

And this is also why a grilled steak is better than a boiled steak.

I understood 100% of what you just said, thanks! Now, how do I use a speedlite to take better photos? Have any tips on settings? Your videos are amazing Theo, thank you so much

Great explanation Ken - it's starting to sink in to my brain now :")

I'm looking for a moon-bounce speedlight for my xt-2, so I can illuminate subjects over the horizon :-) Keep up the good work Ken!!! you are one of the few exceptions in this internet sea of crap, and the only reason I open youtube in the morning.

Ken; Thanks for all the pertinent information. Just one small thing wattage is not a measure of light output it is a measure of power consumption. i.e. a 40 watt fluorescent tube put out as many lumens as 100 watt incandescent bulb.

Thank you for this.

I’d like to start off by saying it’s really admirable to see you offer essential and out of the ordinary photography equipment. Further more, I’d like to also be considered for your give away. I feel as if I need any of the two items given away because a little over a year ago I hit financial struggle which culminated from losing my job and having my roommate move out. I was forced to sell my camera equipment. St the time I was shooting with Sony and vintage prime lenses. Fast forward to a month ago, I was finally able to purchase a camera again. I am now shooting with a grey Fuji XT1 and a Albinar 28mm Lens. Regardless of who you choose as the winner of your give away, I’d still like to acknowledge that what you are doing is admirable and selfless. I look forward to your future videos.

A real master, Thanks for the lesson.

We need to get you on Joe Rogan. Don't feel obliged to bite your tongue and give him a pass, though. Be You all the way.

@aaronjones339

5 жыл бұрын

That is a GREAT idea! Have only listened to 2-3 vids from this guy, but I’ve seen enough to know it’d make for thoroughly interesting and intelligent radio on Rogan.

the answer to the question that's always been on the back of my head. thanks Ken.

Interesting info thanks :)

Great info!

Question: What is the best setup for shooting flat artwork, such as a paining, to get the white balance correct and sharpness of exposure?

so What is bonus for studio lighting when you use them instead?

Of course speed light photography is superior. Simply because you’re in control of the light. However, as the key word is control, that control will take some time to learn and understand. Thanks for yet another good video, Ken.

If a bunch of electrons are jumping at the same time in the xenon tube, won't they interfere with each other?

Who uses flashes directly on the subject? The majority of people I know of use light modifiers that make the flash more diffuse, so it's no longer a point source.

@elcasanelles5806

5 жыл бұрын

compared to what?

If you have three Camera say one is a sony, one is a Canon and other is a Nikon and all three are DSL camera setup for F 2.8 are they the same setting?

@jamesjackson4264

5 жыл бұрын

Randal Campbell cell phone probably not but why would that matter.

You just blew my mind. the exposure time of a smaller sensor is of course faster

@rockapejv

6 жыл бұрын

Don Sullivan: I don't know about digital medium format shutters, but my old Bronica 6x7 film camera used a leaf shutter in the lens. I would have thought the same was true for modern digital medium format cameras?...but it would solve the problem.

''it felt so good'' hahahahaha

I'll be honest, I still don't understand the exposure time / shutter speed thing.

@AnandaGarden

5 жыл бұрын

A shutter is not a single current that falls - think of it as two curtains with an open slit between them through which light passes to the sensor. For a medium-format with a bigger sensor, the slit has to fall farther in order to expose each area of the sensor for 1/125 second. So your shaky hands have a lot longer time in which to jiggle and create blur.

@ared18t

4 жыл бұрын

@@AnandaGarden yeah but once that special technology that will make it possible to expose the entire sensor instantly sensor size will no longer matter when it comes to camera shake.

The real takeaway here is, "A 5W laser will burn a whole in yer ass." Word.

ОТЛИЧНО, PERFEKT, SUPERATERO!!!

As much as I want to agree, I will disagree. Yes flash gives better tonality in many cases, but the real question is DO WE ACTUALLY WANT the better tonality in our images? What are we trying to achieve through the image? Are we trying to beautify reality, or create a vision based on reality? Do our eyes see the way a camera with a flash strobe does? No. In many cases we want our subject to have natural illumination, because we want to recreate an organic look. Flaws can be beautiful.

It is not obvious that flash is always superior/better, I will agree that flash gives a specific exposure at a particular aperture for a given distance. Given this scope, there are particular desirable outcomes that are facilitated using flash; though, this is only one tool in many for obtaining a particular outcome. Possibly, you could narrow the scope of application to were the use of flash is superior, I can think of many where flash is not an option; let alone, better or superior. For example, just about every photograph taken by Ansel Adams.

Excellent information, wish it didn't take you 5 minutes to get to the message. Still, free wisdom was worth the wait.

10:24 I do 😘 but sure all this is also true for film, but most people simply don’t get it. That’s why it’s so hard to explain the benefits of a leaf shutter... 🤷‍♂️

Leaf shutters?

yeah, the radio comment is not entirely true - you can bounce shortwaves off the ionosphere during the night (it acts as metal surface) which would allow you to cover things behind the horizon without going to extreme powers. Also, there are amateur radio bands in this range.

@kathodosdotcom

6 жыл бұрын

well duuuh, that goes without saying, im talking about VHF MOONBOUNCE are you trying to school ME on ham radio?????? ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL

Ken sorry to hear about your hand .Mind your head:)

did you save the blood for a manetism experiment - you could make a blood fero cell.

This sounds exactly like that scene in the key room with Neo and the Architect in the movie: The Matrix… Of course I understood scene that fully too… The problem is Choice!… :0)

The last time I heard of a hand stab like that was in the movie "The Pawnbroker."

You're wrong! Earth is flat! Not turtles, columns.. Jajaja 😂 Great vid, as always

@crxracer805

6 жыл бұрын

Gonzalo Huertas Yeah earth is flat. That's a no brainer

@joeeasley2670

6 жыл бұрын

CastrejonHDTV no brainer, exactly!

@crxracer805

6 жыл бұрын

Joe Easley I was kidding hahaha

So we do need a flash to take a good picture if the radio amateur that is hidden behind the moon with his evil yagi blasting our television with coherent radio waves

If you can bounce radio signals off the moon.. that means the moon is flat like a big satellite dish, right?

@mysko417

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, just like a shiny car is also a dish.

Interesting video hope your hand is better

@kathodosdotcom

6 жыл бұрын

thank you :)

No flat earth comments...ha!!! Do you need the moon to bounce a signal or is my childhood memory wrong regarding bouncing radio waves off one of the different spheres within the atmosphere?

@pawelkot5824

6 жыл бұрын

J P if I remember right, has to do with the vhf band which doesn't bounce on the higher stratosphere...

You should have photographed & filmed it ! Its the start of your stigmata complex - feet, rib & crown of thorns next. Next time stick a cork on the end of it, even the cleverest folk can be fik phuks, as you prove in style.

Nobody ever talks about these sort of things in photography Ken. It's refreshing..Oh ye! by the way, the Earth is not flat everybody but the Moon is...hehehe ...Maybe a new cult following begins here..."The flat moon theory."

@eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeo

6 жыл бұрын

The moon is cheese

@photografiaaustralis2131

6 жыл бұрын

YES with cheese and most likely pepperoni, but flat like a Pizza Hut pizza guyseyes.

@infoillness4222

6 жыл бұрын

Hey there's an Aussie guy called Gary Orsum who might take it up down under...

Why do use such examples KEN? Stirring the hornets, never gets you a massage, only a overzealous message or two? I thought that the ionosphere would prevent anyone from bouncing off the MOON? Unless, your intimating something far more "mind meaty?"

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I understood all of that. I'm so proud of me!

So called "superiority" of flash light is badly defined. Also flash light photography being "double exposure" is irrelevant and is usually not beneficial at all. So, no secrets revealed here, just a bit weird opinions mixed with some misunderstandings of physics.

Stigmata

LMFAO "flat earthers"

6 mins and still no explanation...i stopped watching

Easily could have been a 2-3 minutes video. Jesus

@kathodosdotcom

6 жыл бұрын

yes im the devil

@jackheald8808

6 жыл бұрын

Just 1.5x to 2x the "speed", you'll be fine

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