This video literally just changed my life. Understanding how the shutter and the f-stop control the exposure for ambient light and flash respectively is invaluable. Thank you, Mr. Wallace!

I have watched lot of videos but the way he is teaching and explaining everything is best. Mark always gets 💯 out of 💯. He is the best one.

What a great tutorial. I finally understood the two concepts that for a long time had me baffled. Thanks as always Mark.

I come back to this video every now and then, for a quick recap when I forget. Great video Mark.

@MarkWallaceVideos

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it - it's on my list to update soon. So much has changed since this video was made.

Man I have looked everywhere and DP 1 on 1 tutorials are THE BEST photography tutorials anywhere! Thanks MARK!

WHOA!...this video is amazing...if you want your video over exposed, photos over exposed and to learn all the keys to not doing anything correctly! YES!

One of the most simple and useful video on flash use for outdoor I have seen so far. Thanks a lot mate.

Finally someone was able to explain it to me so it's theoretically and practically clear. And it really works! Thanks a lot for it!

This is amazing. The holy grail of flash photography videos. Many thanks.

It's great to see Jayd Lovely doing some mainstream modeling. I fully support her crossover efforts. She looks great in ALL her work (ahem!).

@markharris5771

8 жыл бұрын

I must be old and happily married, no idea who she is and spent most of the video looking at the scenery behind Mark. Book my place in the nursing home.

I really found this tutorial extremely helpful, and I always enjoy the comical segments in the end. Thanks so much for your photographical knowledge.

great video! very well explaind,and Jade is gorgeous!!

I miss you Mark!!!!!! You thought me a lot back in a day!!!!!!!! Thank you!

It' s all clear to me now. Thank you, Mr. Wallace.

Thanks Mark. There was a lot of good stuff in that video and it taught me a lot.

8:39 "...but the exposure on [Jade] is staying exactly the same..." Except... it's doesn't, hahah Full appreciation for the fact that this video was made in 2011, but as of 2012 (at least, if not sooner) Nikon also allows you to use exposure compensation on the ambient light independently from the subject exposure. (Yes, I'm a Nikon D600 owner, and no, I'm not flaming: just pointing out that things may have changed since this video was made.) Still, great video, phenomenal model talent, and as always very pleased to watch all your videos.

@ComptonOriginal

10 жыл бұрын

I caught that as well lol

@myked2072

9 жыл бұрын

Dude's been sniffing glue!

@spangari

9 жыл бұрын

yeah ..looks like the EC on canon globally affects both subject and ambient...

@cooloox

9 жыл бұрын

Actually, he did it wrong. Exposure compensation on a Canon affects the entire exposure (ambient and flash). To bump up exposure on the background and keep the flash correct he needed to add 1 stop of EC and select - 1 stop flash compensation. One thing he demonstrated that I've said for years is that Canon's fill flash is vastly superior to Nikon's. The neutral settings fill flash (no exposure compensation or flash compensation) on the Nikon was ridiculously overexposed. The model was 2 stops overexposed! On the Canon it was perfect. When he ran through the Canon's flash compensation and reached +2 stops and you could clearly see the model was way overexposed - that was how the Nikon shot appeared without compensation. It has always been this way since the film days. I used to do weddings as a team with a Nikon shooter and he was always getting overexposed fill flash and it drove me nuts.

@jasonbodden8816

8 жыл бұрын

cooloox You're very right. That Nikon flash shot was way overexposed yet he called it a "great exposure." And when he toggled the regular EC the flash exposure quite obviously changed with the ambient exposure though he said it stayed the same. He used the same explanation that he used for the flash exposure compensation for the normal exposure compensation.

Thanks Mark. Your videos are extremely helpful. Much appreciated mate.

Hello from 2017! Absolutely great video, explaining what I did need to know about the flash and how to control it. I wish I had seen this video 5 years ago...

This season starts great! This is an excellent video, Mark! Jade is beautiful too...

Amazing video Mark!! Very well explained!!!!👍

This video helped me a lot. Thank you very much. You're the best.

You learn something new everyday! Thanks!!

Great! Thanks for the comparison of the different flash control methods of Canon and Nikon, that was very helpful for me :)

This was an awesome demonstration!!!!!! Thank you!

you have made photography like a poetry ....... very magical way to understand colors of life and how to shoot with camera.... thanks for making DSLR use easy and fun............

Excellent! I've learned something new having just bought a flash speedlite

Mark, man! This lesson was to my photography! I really got it for the first time! Thanks for being in depth yet simplistically clear! God bless! - Christopher from down in Brazil. ..

@stankozlowitz3626

7 жыл бұрын

Christopher Soule I get it too really for the first time. Since the flash only flashes for perhaps 1/10000 of a second AND the background is not exposed, it doesn't matter what the camera shutter speed is. So shutter speed can't control the flash exposure.

I have been screwing up flash shots with expensive (pro) Canon gear for over a decade now. I've never fully-understood the relationship between exposure settings and how they individually relate to the background and subject during flash. Yeeeyup. This video is a great example as to why the crap we put with regarding all social media is still worth it. This truly puts things in order! And you damned right I subscribed! ;-D

Love your videos !!! Keep them coming!!!

This is a very informative video. Thank you for sharing. Got some good tips

I have learned something very useful as i am venturing into low light photography. Thanks for sharing.

Great video. Simplified some concepts for me. 👍🏻👍🏻

Nice video, thanks. Jade is one charming person to work with. Well done both of you.

had to watch this twice... first time just looked at Jade.. soo pretty!!!, but very good video. I am just starting out with flash photography and there is much to learn and this was very informative and well explained...

you are the best teacher Mark.. no doubt .. thank you.. I just subscribed to you for all your videos

Thanks for the lesson. I just starting uses a Minolta Alpha 9 (film camera), and you have been a great help.

Somebody please teach him what overexposure is!! That flash directly pointing at the subject is absolutely not correct

@Jgheiler

2 жыл бұрын

How would you use that speed light outdoors? How would you bounce it if you just had that?

@GoneToHelenBach

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jgheiler If traveling with minimal gear, I would take a flashbender to produce softer light. The biggest problem here is that he over-exposed her on all of the first few flash-lit shots.

@elram2649

Жыл бұрын

@@Jgheiler 👍

@lukakoprivica

2 ай бұрын

😂😂 Exactly!

Extremely helpful. Thank you.

...BRILLIANT.....Thanks Mark.

Ohh this video is just SO great. Im just a beginner with my Canon D70, 2 speedlight flashes, and some lenses.. but watching this realy gave med a BIG push for going on and learn.. happy for my camera😄😄

learned something new today. Very excited abt it. Thx

Excellent work... I was waiting for your new videos; likely, here they are!!!! thanks

The model is amazingly beautiful. Great lesson too.

Your model is absolutely stunning!!:D

Well done, thanks Mark, I will go and practice that with my Canon today...

Great presentation, as always I have watched this a couple of times and commend you on presentation, content, detailed information which is easily understood. A great way to go, bite off a manageable portion and present with references for more detail. John - Indonesia

I believe barrybuttery's comment was pointing out that Mark COULD have dropped the ISO two stops to 200 and adjusted his shutter speed down two stops (to 1/500 sec) and achieved the same exposure with a slightly higher picture quality. Mark is a pro and he knows this. I'm sure he wasn't concerned about achieving the perfect final image quality since the point of the video was to show how the 2 exposures can be adjusted independently to achieve this effect.

Thanks a lot Mark Wallace for this pretty cool video. I have tried it on my deck with a little statue and the technique worked as advertised. I did it exactly in Manual Mode by metering the background and I have kept varying my Shutter Speed up and down with my SB700 in TTL Mode and I got virtually the same results. Pretty cool! I have also tried the white background 18% Gray... Cheers! Btw-I did not do the the FEC with my SB700 but I can accomplish it with the D300 just like the Canon can...

Great video!! I've always been confused with all this flash stuff. Thanks :)

I'm falling in love with the model. Belíssima!!!

nice video. what i was looking for when i searched using a speed light outdoor.

Canon 7D EV minus 2 image looks the best. Being a 7D and 7Dii owner the +/- EV and Fcomp I use a lot. Such an easy system to get results quickly.

GREAT INFO. thanks for sharing.

Jade is super gorgeous!!! Im in love!!😍😍

Wow, flashback showing up on the timeline, hard to believe this video is 11 years old now.

that really helped me out a lot ! Thank you so much :)

Mark usually knows what he's about. I just think he made a mistake in his explanation of the regular exposure compensation and might not have caught the mistake before posting the vid. He's a pretty good teacher overall. Don't all get your panties in a bunch. Just look at some of his other vids.

Love u so much Mark W... Thumbs UP.

Helpful tips, thank you!

Thanks, this is really helpful!

My nikon system caused me a good deal of trouble over the years. Thanks for talking about lighting.

Great video Mark

ISO does affect the flash output too. Btw, Nikon does have flash compensation too.

Thanks for teaching a Kindergarten version for those of us just trying to get a handle on this stuff!

Very informative - many thanks

Nikon DSLRs have exposure/flash compensation aswell.

@johndonaldson5126

5 жыл бұрын

As do Sony cameras

Thanks for the tip will be working on this technique

Thanks for the video. I am trying to learn as much as I can about doing Head shots and all information is useful. I do prefer the style and work of Dylan Patrick and Peter Hurley that use 135mm to 200mm lens to get compress the background. Thanks for the info.

Great video as always. The Sony A700 also has the ability to work exposure and flash comp individually also.

great job Mark....

Jade is very photogenic! Beautiful smile.

OH WOW... I just did it. Thank you Dario. Tomorrow time to shoot and test.

Great video, you explained what you did instead of just saying "Do this !".

I am a camera guy and I like M. Wallace's stuff. There is nothing wrong if a fellow photographer is commenting for technical accuracies. I like this video a lot because it's hitting on multi-levels ranging from On-Camera usage to How to Expose for flash usage outdoor. Mark has great videos. I always consult his videos as a starting learning point. But, if Mark appears to be somewhat inaccurate about some cameras; let it be said. That's what the Internet is all about. We don't know everything!

Thanks for the video, Woogie 👍

Excellent! Thanks.

Very good Teacher! and one HOOOOOT MODEL!!!!

Nice job. Thanks for sharing.

Mark is a fantastic Teacher! I'd love to be under his tutelage.

Excellent tutorial...already subscribed.

Nikon D200 could do this, even better than Canon... Insane... PS Jade always looked good 😅

@MarkWallaceVideos

Ай бұрын

Nikon makes some great gear! Jade is such a nice person, she's really great to work with.

Hi, dope film! Have a nice day :D

THANK YOU.. FOR POSTING this video

Very good. I've forgotten so much of this. I had way too many shadows on the face of a model last weekend; I was using my Pentax, which is my airshow camera, rather than my Cannon, which has a far more powerful and effective flash.

Nikon was doing the Flash exposure compensation on the D200 10+ years ago

Jade is a sweetheart with a disarming smile. A charming model.

Thanks for the video. I'm a little confused about the three comparison shots at 8:30. It seems to me that by changing the exposure compensation setting on the Canon camera also changed the exposures on pretty Jade and not staying the same as you mentioned. Please correct me if I missed out something. Thank you Mark.

@Raggnarr13 Yes, you can do exposure compensation for the ambient in P mode, aperture priority or shutter priority modes in Nikon, and exposure compensation for the flash separately. This is how Joe McNally often shoots with iTTL (underexpose the ambient by a stop, bump up the flash by a stop and a third).

man this guy is a good teacher.

Aperture also affects Jade exposure, but it's balanced with flash which doesn't hit background so thats why you can change it's exposure .

Well I learned something about my Canon cameras today which I didn't know about using AV mode, but hey I'm still learning. Thank you, glad I got a Canon now

Jade looks great !

Very good tips about flash adjustments

Great film! :-) Being a Canon 5d Mark III-user this was good news all the way! Thank you! Canonfreak:)

The model looks fabulous....

Really helpful... Nice tuts. N exoplaination

In your Canon example @ 8:28 you mention that exposure comp only changes the background. But those examples look like it has changed the flash exposure too?

@thargor2k I noticed that too.. its changing the exposure of the full frame..

Excellent explanation... 😃

Wow! feels like understand! Thanks