Finally a very good video on the basics on how to set up your shot and how shutter and aperture are involved in this. Thanks a lot :)

I have been looking for a protocol like this, specifically for shooting 35mm film cameras with significantly lower sync speeds. "Take an overall exposure, underexpose by .5 stop, match flash power to measured aperture." Perfect. Needed this.

Very essential tutorial. Thank you!

This is a truly fantastic video! This channel deserves far more views than it's getting.

Nitpicking, but in the photo on the left, the ambient (sun) is from camera left. The flash is camera right.

Great video! A lot of information. Just to clarify, you cannot use a lightmeter when you use HSS, I think there’s only one that can read it, and it only works with a handful of flashes, and you still need to take a picture to read HSS, so it’s just a little faster than taking two, three pictures to set the power. And HSS will lose power, so you cannot just increase the shutter speed and keep shooting, you need to increase the flash power.

Thank you. I really enjoyed your video

Great explaination, simple as it is!

Excellent! Thank you.

I use ankle weights on my stand and have a 26 inch octabox. I find this almost impossible to tilt over by wind. But u are right. Once that puppy tilts over the monolight is gone. Something to think about.

As always.... seriously great mentoring, Michael. At 16:25 can you briefly mention how you have warmer tones on the left and cooler on the right.?? Did you simply drag around the color cast sliders in post because skin tones do not seem to be effected.?? Thanks so much for everything that you share..

Thanks for sharing your beautiful tutorial. Too bad you did not mention using ND filter as an alternative to HSS. One thing I will like to add is there are 3 ways to adjust ambient light instead of just using the shutter speed. 1) Adjust shutter speed (common and well covered here) 2) Adjust ISO/Flash power (e.g. increasing ISO and lower flash power will increase ambient exposure without changing flash exposure; for lower ambient exposure, just do the reverse by lowering the ISO and increase flash power) 3) Adjust Aperture/Flash power (Not a common technique but you can open up the aperture and lower flash to increase ambient exposure; for lower ambient exposure, just do the reverse of stopping down aperture and increase flash) Yes, there are also 3 ways to adjust the power of flash but I will not get into them here.

fantastic info & images!

So along to the pain poll adapter would be helpful since I’ve been looking for this thing ever since I saw you talk about two,years ago. Impossible to find.....for me anyway. Thanks for the great content. Helps keep me sharp.

Thank you for sharing your expertise in that great way! I love this video!

Hi Michael, love your tutorials! I want to ask, are you using barebulb inside the diffuser for equal distribution of light inside the diffuser or are you still attaching the bulb reflector inside?

I looked for the KC paint pole adapter and never found what you used. Where did you find it?

very impressive and informative. I do have a question, when I go into hhs does my flash automatically go to full power, or do I have to adjust the power to get a certain look?

What was your ISO for your images?

Variable ND filter another speed option

Nice explained

What type of meter are you using it will it let you use high speed sync with the meter

The meter is useful if we are using a speed under the sync limit of the camera. In my case 1/250th of a second. Do you have any tips about how to measure the flash contribution at HSS range? Thanks in advance. And a really good video.

Great video, lovely pics - wee verbal typo at 11:30 you say TTL when I am sure you mean HSS. I make that kind of mistake all the time - my wife calls them "brain goobles" - so just trying to be helpful rather than critical.

how about ISO?