Been a long time follower and the thing is you always deliver Eli. You mean a lot to the photography community ❤

Thank you for letting me know about the stand!

That's really really amazing

this was amazing great job very well explained

Love it! Love how you walk through start to finish! Super content once again!

Great Video!!

Well done. It’s easy to follow your tutorial!

Great,I go try this

So sick. I've learned a lot. Thank you! Now I have to step up with my gears. 😅 Still don't have a speed light and it shows how speedlight change a photo in an instant.

This is great! Now I need capture one, and a viltrox lens!

This is my first time ever commenting on your videos. I’ve been watching for quite a while. I recently switched my Canon RF gear in favor of Fujifilm X-H2. Reason for me was the portability of a smaller kit with no compromise to image quality whatsoever. My work never changed. I’m glad you’ve added it to your arsenal. You should shoot more with it. If you’re ever in Houston, look me up.

Thank you for another amazing video. I just ordered some fj400’s and the Manny Ortiz beauty dishes , thanks for the recommendation. I shoot Sony and Fujifilm and I have had the Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 since it came out. I freakin’ love this lens. I would gladly pay double the price for it. It is great to hear your perspective on gear I already own. Glad I haven’t ordered light stands yet. Gracias hermano y cuidado con “las nalgitas.” 😂 Saludos desde San Antonio. Both shots are fantastic but I would vote for the close up shot.

Well done Eli -- touching on setup, composition, time limits and even post processing. Thanks. (Photoshop should add a "nalgitas" filter on the next iteration.)

Good video

I Am the number one 🎉

9:23 Lolz 😊 So cute, "his nalguitas" 👋 Smack 'em Eli! 😆😄🙃

Love the video, very informative. Love your work. Quick question do you prefer the white or silver Manny Ortiz softbox?

Hi Eli, been following your channel for awhile and I have found it so helpful. However I am struggling in an area and I feel I might be the only one. I shoot in raw and when I take studio shots of my kids I am looking at the histogram like I always do for other photos. I find that I can't gauge the accuracy of the brightness of the photo well with off camera flash. I mean how do I know I'm getting the right amount of light by the histogram standards? The back of my screen shows a JPEG as you know regardless if we shoot in raw. Looks good but then when brought into Lightroom it is usually underexposed. Is there anyway you could show us or myself what you look for in a histogram with off camera flash. I find it would be a tremendous help to myself and maybe some other subscribers in the same position. Thank you for any advice you might have 🙏🏻

Thanks for your video and guide for HSS. On a completely unrelated subject, have you considered using a lapel mic? Your current mic hides most of your face.

Nice one. Personally, in terms of composition, I like full-length or cropped just above the knee. Everything in between is usually not my taste. Awesome results

When shooting with the Many Ortiz soft box. Do you shoot with the reflector plate in it or out of it when using the diffusion material?

For your high speed sync shots, both in general and this posting, do/did you point your modifier directly at the subject or "butterfly"?

Hi Eli! In your bnh video you mentioned a jbl speaker. Is that for music during the shoot or something else?

do you use ND filter?

Eli... it does sound like there was a lot of light (i.e. SS 1/5000). It would be really cool if you did a video on using an ND filter with HSS. (BTW, Marco is always getting in the way ;)

I think the close-ups are a touch better only b/c it puts more emphasis on the subject; also gives a more "casually captured" vibe (vs "production-grade") to the image.

All the pictures look amazing but If I had to choose, The close up poses look more flattering. Side note... Do you use ND filters or do you always shoot at a high shutter speed with HSS to darken the background?

Eli, with the Manny Ortiz BD, do you miss not having the double diffusion? I have looked at it and it's awful expensive to not have that double diffusion. Thoughts please?

Hello Eli, is thefj200 is enough for this?

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Instead of multiple trial and error shots, why not use a light meter such as a Sekonic 858, which can handle HSS, or standard flash modes. As you mention, the sun continues to go down, so you are limited in the time available. Something else to consider is using aperture priority mode so that the shutter speed will vary automatically in order to maintain the ambient lighting.

The nalgitas 😂🤣

*Promo sm*

We don’t want to see your face all the time

sorry to be the debbie downer, but I think you have some fundamentally poor posing directing technique, especially on the image you chose to break down at the end. There are two specific things that in my opinion represent grave errors in posing a model. First you have her standing square to the camera -- presenting a models widest position. Then you further widen the pose by popping her hip out while allowing the jacket to hang down which effectively doubles her apparent width. I honestly don't see how you can present this as effective posing instruction. While she is a pretty model, the photos present her to my eye as being quite short, especially in the torso. The styling of the high waist denim shorts and bulky, fringed jacket present her torso akin to the shape of a linebacker. Not taking anything away from her as an attractive human, I just think the photos represent some bad decisions. I would further criticize your angle choice in that you prioritized the lines of the railing over the presentation of the model. To my eye, the camera level is too low. If you draw diagonal lines from corner to corner the intersection is virtually at her zipper. I would have a hard time justifying that as center of interest in a portrait or fashion shot. I generally stage my fashion shots with the camera level between a models hips and shoulders to eliminate angle distortion from tipping lens. If this were simply a lighting technical practice, I wouldn't bring all of this up, but I came to this video from Fstoppers where it was presented as Strategic Lighting and Posing.

Such a great video - I would love to see more like this, very helpful 🙌 So glad to hear that you also have tutorials on how to work in Capture One + your editing i Photoshop - I will definitely have a look at those 🫶 Keep up the good (read: AMAZING!) work 🎉