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Brilliant guide Nick, really clearly explained and concise.
Hi Nick. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. That was brilliant and exactly what I was looking for. Cheers!
Great - glad you found it useful. Thanks for the feedback!
hi there. I miss the old tungsten lighting kits! Hot but powerful and easier to control...I have been using LED panels like the ones you used to have...2 of those but I think this Godox would be better for interviews...do you find the footage to be a lot better than before? It must be more powerful than the previous LED panels you had...or not? I may get one and use it a key light...
I would say that the quality of the footage is better, but mostly that's as a result of being able to attach a selection of existing modifiers I have already. If I wanted to do any fictional work, then they would be much better as you can better control the light to give the look you're after. The key point for me with interviews/youtube is that these lights are around 2.5x the power of my previous LED panels, which means I no longer need lights hovering really close, just out of frame. And if things are further away, it's all more even too. Thanks.
@@NickChurchPhotography thanks so much. Yeah. I think i will get one of these Godox lights one of these days. I could use it at wedding receptions and interviews. But the important component is the light diffusion. For now I'm waiting for a sale!! Take care
Very refreshing, you have ignited my interest again in making one for my family. Been away from compositing for a real long time as its not my main photographic work but alway appreciate it when its done right. Thanks Nick
My pleasure, glad it was helpful 👍🏼👍🏼📸
Hi Nick. Bloody great review! Everything I wanted to know about this nice little light. Liked, subbed! 👍
I forgot to ask: What mAh batteries do you use for the wedding application?
Thanks Adam! I'm pleased it was useful
@@adamwestphoto I use 2 x 8800 in each. Have never run out yet. These batteries are 64Wh, so two of them will power an ML60bi at full power for 2 hours. In reality you're never at full power for most applications, so it will go all evening.
@@NickChurchPhotography Thanks mate! 👍
Love the review..how bright is the ML60bi ..especially for outdoor use at night..( for videos)
Thank you! It's 60w, so if you imagine a 60w lightbulb, then you're in the right ball-park. If you have two, then you can double the power output. This is about as powerful as you can get with battery power, and that battery power option is the main advantage here. If your shooting scenario is an interview etc where you can get the lights quite close to the subject (1-2m) and still be out of shot, then you'll be fine, even at low ISO. If you're doing a full body shot, then you will need them further away to ensure they are out of shot then you will need to let ISO increase a bit to compensate. But depending on your camera system, if it has dual-base ISO then then is not a major issue anyway.
Brilliant! So useful!
Master at work! Love it - Easy video to follow
🎉 'promo sm'
Great review 🧡
Thank you :-)
Can you explain what you mean by “you can’t push out the ambient light“
Hi, sure. It’s because when you use flash you have two separate light sources: ambient and flash. They both work independently to create the lighting in the final image. You can reduce (push away) ambient light using a faster shutter speed, but this does not affect your flash intensity. So with flash you can make a room totally dark and just lit with flash. Continuous light is adding to/blending with your ambient light so can’t be separated (increase your shutter speed, and you reduce everything)
Great review Nick 👍
Thanks Dave. Fancy a catch up soon? I'll bring one of these lights and let you touch it! 🙂
@@NickChurchPhotography What..... actually touch it!!! 😀 Yeah definitely up for a catch up mate - will be in touch 👍
Fantastic review Nick. I went for the Amaran 60x which are a similar power and equally as portable - however they don't have a cary case that's as nice and the hyper reflector has a really strong hot spot - Still super happy with it though. Handy to know there are other options :)
Thanks man. The case is really good, otherwise the 60x is fairly similar in functionality.
Thanks- I finally understand this process 🤩
Glad to have helped!
superbe. merci pour ce tuto ;)
de rien!
You hop around without explaining the intricate details on how to get to the next step…. I’m a familiar to PS but I catch myself going back to see your mouse movement
Hi - sorry you found it hard to follow. If there is a particular step you need more detail on, just let me know, always happy to answer
Hello Nick, Great video, truly appreciated. Any chance you could show how you can take the final result and copy and paste in Lightroom to apply the settings to a more photos taken in the same sitting?
Hi - the final composite images is a creation in photoshop and there is no way to tell Lightroom to recreate it. What you need is Photoshop Actions, which let you automate aspects of the PS editing process. This will allow you to achieve something closer to what you need. I can run a 1:1 coaching session on how you do this, so let me know if this is of interest. Thanks
Hey! Great advice! Could you share how you backup the lr catalog file? Just want to make sure I'm doing it correctly and safely! Thank you!
Thanks man. I backup my cat to my external drive, which also contains my library. Then I duplicate that drive to another regularly. That way, anything happens to my computer or the drive connected to it, I’ve got all the images and a recent catalog. Images and cat are equally important. To change your backup location go to catalog settings and select ‘backup when LR next exits’. Then close LR and you’ll have the popup. This lets you change the destination to somewhere on an external drive. If you don’t use an external drive then just copy your lrcat file to somewhere else relatively often (every shoot most likely).
I'm a single catalog guy so I can do a single keyword search when looking for things. Great advice on previews - that will save us all some headaches!
Glad it was helpful!
I greatly appreciate the time and effort in this post. Not only step by step but the thinking prior to the shoot is often overlooked. Can you send a link to the free overlays?
I’m really pleased it is valuable. Sure. I’ll provide an updated link in the description… I’ll reply again when it’s updated
@@NickChurchPhotography Thank you
Cool walkthrough Nick, thanks for sharing 🤓👍
Cheers Scott, thanks for taking a look
Good information, thanks Nick
Any time!
Brillaint Nick, did know how to HDR but good to see how you use it. That hack! 😍👌👌🤓👍 didn't know that, ty!! Great shot, I've been meaning to pop to Rickford Chapel for years 🤣🤣
Thanks Scott. You can even go one better, if you stack your brackets (use stack based on capture time) then you can even use that key press so do a whole bunch at the same time!
Well spotted on the location! I’m always on the way to Coombe Lodge when I’m passing so don’t usually have time. So was nice to spend 30 minutes here with a couple of photography trainees
For a British person, you are having a hard time pronouncing "lasso" properly. There's only one "O" in there, mate.
No, it’s how we say Lasso in the UK. The English language is full of unusual quirks like this… Everyone in Australia pronounces it Lassoo too
What an a$@holey thing to say.
You save my life, you don't even realize! Thank you for this vid.
Happy to help!
✨ P r o m o s m!
Cool ❤️❤️🙏
Glad it helped!
👍 Good tutorial, Thanks
Awesome tutorial! Loved this.
Thanks Kirsty
Very helpful video! Keep it up mate
Thanks Jeremy. Much appreciated. Frequency Separation for retouching coming up next
F-bombs left and right lol awesome.
I know - can't help it! Haha. Hopefully the message still comes across :-)
Hey Nick. Great video ! I tried clicking the link to get to the same textured background that you used, but couldn't find it. Could you possibly link to the 2 exact backgrounds used in the video? Thanks and just subscribed.
Hey man. Thanks for subscribing. To be honest, the actual background is not overly important, it’s just the texture we need. But I’ll find a new link and update the description… cheers
I used a couple of textures from this pack: www.deviantart.com/sirius-sdz/art/Texture-Pack-20-373191545
...and this one: www.deviantart.com/sirius-sdz/art/Texture-Pack-18-338428339
Hi, Hopefully you are fine. Great work on this Image very helpful video for me. From Pakistan
You're welcome - thank you :-)
Is the app different from the website? I don’t have that option or I can’t find it. I only have the app as I can’t download programs on my work computer, so my only option is to use the app. Is purchasing the app different then purchasing the program? Could I potentially log in on a friends computer?
Hi Adriana. The web-app version that runs in a browser is limited in functionality. So yes, the app/programme that runs on your computer is different. If you have an Adobe cloud subscription you should be able to download the full app on any computer 👍🏼
Hey Nick, at around 14:20, when you are copying the image mask, to the curves mask, are you simply dragging and dropping? When I have tried this, the mask from the image does copy to the curves mask, but disappears from the image. So, not a copy, but a transfer. But, maybe I missed how you did it. Thanks.
Hi Peter, Sorry, this wasn't clear. I should have mentioned that when I dragged the mask at that point I'm holding down Option (Mac) or Command (PC) to copy the mask to the new layer, rather than move it. Cheers
@@NickChurchPhotography Appreciate you taking the time to reply, thanks!
@@NickChurchPhotography I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out why I couldn’t make the copy. Should have read the comments 14 minutes ago!
I owe you 14 mins. Sorry 😂
At 7:32 when you open the temporary exported catalog to make edits, did you do anything with that presets folder you included or did LR just find those presets on its own? I know you don’t show us that you did anything with the presets when you open the exported catalog, but I wonder if you had wanted to use a preset to edit (instead of using the sliders), then are the presets already loaded? Or would you have to go to Develop > Presets > Add new presets ‘ upload presets and pull from that folder? I hope this makes sense. :/ GREAT VIDEOS!!!! Game changers
At 7:50 you’re on the Develop tab and I can see all your presets loaded on the Left panel under Presets - I wonder if you actually did something to get those in this exported catalog other than put them in that preset folder that was included in the exported catalog folder on your desktop? If so, what were your steps?
Are you worried about your catalog ever going corrupt by just keeping one massive catalog? The way we back up our photos as photographers seems like we need to have redundancy for our catalog edits too. Right now for 2021 I only have April onwards but would like to just keep this one catalog moving forwards for all shoots for all years in the future (til I hit 1 million like you). Previously I have had catalogs corrupt and that is why I made a new one. Do you have advice about where to store your catalog? And is it okay to make a copy of a catalog, will it work? Let’s just say you make a copy of your catalog to your external hard drive or have it backed up on backblaze and your MBP gets knocked over by a toddler (!!) - then could you use the copy of the catalog just fine? As long as it still points to the RAWS in the same spot? Last question - I have a problem with my presets not loading in new catalogs. From the example above you may have noticed I’ve had some bad luck with corrupt catalogs so I have to restore one from a copy or from my backblaze cloud. - The presets almost always are not synced and I have to build my preset library again from scratch. And, even though I’ve saved all my presets to a folder on my external harddrive called presets, it says they are the wrong file type - even though in the previous catalog they were loaded fine. The file type is not an issue I expect a reply on! I just want to know why my presets don’t ever stay with the catalog. :(
Hi Nick, your videos are great, I’ve been a comment hog tonight on all of them. I sound really dumb above… I *do* back up my catalogs on every exit of LR. Where do you keep your back ups? PS - I actually came back to make a video request… you;’ve mentioned a couple times that you may want to sync a collection to LR CC to edit on the go, can you make a video on that? On how you go between LR CC and LR Classic? And how your presets work between the two (specifically how to get your same presets on to LR CC). Thanks again for the great videos!
Hi Sarah. Please comment away! Nice to know the videos are useful. Moving between Classic and CC is a pretty powerful workflow and a great idea for a tutorial. I have added to the list for the next set of vids 🙏
Some great observations in here Sarah. Yes there is a chance of corruption and yes I’m worried about it which is why you need a solid backup policy. I keep a copy of my Lightroom on my iMac, regularly backing up to cloud storage. I also have a regular backup going onto external drives. Keeping multiple versions in a variety of places is your insurance policy against severe data loss. Lightroom’s policy of automatically backing up in the main Lightroom folder is not ideal as theft or the drive going down takes all the backups as well as the main catalog. With catalogs in another location, if there’s a problem you simply copy the cat back to the original location and open it again… although actually you can open it from wherever you like, it’s best to move it back to the one original place to avoid confusion about which is the ‘current’ one. The issues above - none of them are solved with splitting a catalog. If you lose a catalog you go to a backup. If you have no backup then sure you would still have the older shoots in the other catalogs but you’ll still have lost the most valuable which is all the latest shoots which you may not have delivered. Splitting up catalogs gives a false sense of security in this way. It doesn’t solve any of the issues, in fact I think it adds to them. Because if your backup policy is a bit crap, then having loads of catalogs in multiple locations is probably going to be chaotic carnage and lots more data is at risk. Poor user management of data is the usual way things get lots, not fire or theft. Presets should move over really easily, so I can’t understand why this may be. You might have ‘keep presets in catalog’ option ticked which almost always does the wrong thing. These are really common issues which is why I cover all this in detail in my Lightroom zoom workshop, so do let me know if that’s ever if interest
@@NickChurchPhotography 100% interested in your course! Need some help ASAP. Also thanks for the comments re: back ups. OK I have some things to think about that might help me get to the bottom of why my catalogs become corrupt sometimes. I do have external back up drives, and back blaze and have a system in place. I love the advice on not using the default location for the LR back up. I don’t think I do, but just got a new laptop (M1) (because LR was loathe somely slow and my old MBP only had 8 GB RAM, and LR now recommends 16 GB RAM but LR is still not crazy fast -which brought me to your video in the first place! I digress, as always…)
@@sarahmacdonald7713 we can sort out all these issues. If you would like to discuss the course please email [email protected]. It would be great to work with you. BackBlaze is a good system, but it has issues around Lightroom catalogs.
What is with the stupid loud music..??
There is often a volume control on your speakers, or on your device settings. Do let me know if you’re having trouble as I’d be happy to help. Thanks.
@@NickChurchPhotography The volume control also reduces the volume of your voice... The balance if the 'background' music is way out. your voice is the background sound. That makes this (and many other videos) unwatchable for me. Sad. As for multiple catalogues; all my work targeted at botanic publication is kept entirely separate from all my other diverse general photography despite it including astro, landscape, engineering and family photography Robert
@@seapy2398 I will bear the music volume in mind for future videos. If you will never need to move images between your catalogs, or view them together then there is no major issue with having multiple catalogs. But, Lightroom is designed with many ways to allow you to separate these different streams of work. For example I have books that are fiction, and some reference manuals, some dictionaries etc etc. they live in the same bookcase. Multiple catalogs is like having different bookcases for each genre of books. Cheers
Another, really great video, super helpful.
Thank you Peter. Will be posting more content soon, as weddings start to wind down
@@NickChurchPhotography Excellent, look forward to it
"F-ing million ways...", love it. This video was very timely, upcoming group composite.
Haha - thanks Peter, glad it was f-ing useful
@@NickChurchPhotography Ya, really helpful. Gave me F-ing million things to consider and think about and plan for, awesome.
@@NickChurchPhotography I hollowed! Hilarious!
Brilliant stuff!
Thanks man!
For most people, yes they don't make sense. However, I do separate my personal stuff from paid/professional work (even though I'm not a professional, but when I photograph models for example). In those instances where one has a professional portfolio and a personal portfolio, then having two or maybe three catalogs makes sense. I also sometimes do demonstrations or presentations and it's nice to show just my "professional"/paid work and not having my personal stuff getting in the way. You can create separate Collections to sort things out but i Prefer to keep the two separated in different catalogs. There is hardly any time when I need to jump back and forth between the two in a single editing session. I'm usually either working on personal or model/paid work. I mean it used to be that once you hit about 50-60k images, you had to create a catalog or deal with a really slow experience, but that has changed now with the newer versions of LR which can hold a lot more and not impact performance. But what you don't want to end up with is a separate catalog by shoot, category or year. That can be excessive and can make backing up your catalogs a nightmare. Fewer is better, but sometimes you would benefit from more than one. The other thing about splitting stuff up is that if I'm going on vacation, I rarely need to deal with my paid client work, so I don't copy or bring that catalog with me (as I back them up to my external SSD before leaving so I can work on they while traveling).
I have always had 100,000s of images switch no problem. SQL likes data, it performs happily with many times that. I do agree with you that there are valid times where separating your work into multiple cats does make sense, but felt that this was outside the scope of this video. The main issue as you say was that a catalog per shoot is not the right way to use Lightroom.
Great workNick, thank you for the details
Thanks Drew’s my pleasure. Let me know what you want to see featured next
Superb, but way beyond my current skills.
If you’re interested in a zoom workshop, I run a course called Photoshop Essentials which gives all the skills you need to ease into this sort of project. Give me a shout if interested [email protected]
I found the music overpowering.
As I wrote and performed it myself, I’ll take that as a compliment 💪🏼
@@NickChurchPhotography I was going to say how useful and interesting the process was, but instead I'm going to say how cool and zen-like the music is :) Great stuff!
@@graememacdonald1088 Thanks Graeme. That’s very kind sir!!