That last image was really nice with the Maggrid. I love the Magmod system

I use the Gary Fong Lightsphere - he needed to lower the power of the flash to obtain a softer light. IMHO the Gary Fong Lightsphere is the best one out there.

This was extremely helpful! Thanks for taking the time to describe and show everything! Never thought about pointing an on-camera flash back and to the side.

More of this type of videos please! Very helpful. Cheers

Nice, clear, easy-to-understand examples. Thank you so much!

I love the big line that goes through his head. Looks really professional. 👍

I do a lot of flash photography for work and this was really helpful.

Very helpful - Thank you! I'm going to try the Gary Fong with the flash on camera pointing backwards

Great video; thanks. So many of the pros have suggested Magmod system, I purchased the Grid, Bounce, and Sphere, put them on light stands (off camera) and triggered with Godox xPro-N trigger and came away with great results. Since I used Nikon speedlights, I have to use Godox receivers too.

Great vid... good to see all the examples together to compare.... thanks FStoppers ..

This is the best video on flash subject. Huge shout out!

Bounce flash made the best shot. :)

You're a great educator!

That's a super solid tutorial! Subscribed!

I really like the Rogue speed light modifier. Much better light quality than any other ones currently available on the market.

Awesome video. So thorough! Thank you so much!

You are a really good teacher. Thank you.

I like the flashdisc, because it looks like a frontal bounce flash with soft shadows. I'm going to buy one! Thanks!

I needed this tutorial so bad!!!!!!!!!

very cool and instructive video, love the image with the mag grid off camera, I need to try this, thanks guys for the inspiration.

Excellent video, many things to pick up from!

I was waiting for you to try turning the speedlight around facing backward hitting a large white board. I will try that. Thank you for the tutorial.

Great examples. Thanks.

Honestly, I'm digging that Flashdisk portrait on camera :)

Excellent video on flash techniques.

Thank you for this!

I would like to see you do a complete review of all of the MagMod modifiers.

This is very helpful! Thanks!

I honestly love this video.

Great stuff! Thanks!

Great video! I’d love to see a video on when it’s appropriate to have shadows on the faces and when it’s not. I tend to prefer the look of less shadows from the bounce flash but I can also appreciate the more dramatic look of the shadows from the directional off camera flash.

that was an awesome class!!!

So much to learn to take good pictures. Learned a lot from this tutorial vid very good instruction

Bounce flash is amazing as long as you know how to work it. Takes trial and error to get it right but the lighting looks very natural and you do not have some big bulky thing on your flash to bump things into. I never use the bounce card but more of facing it 45 degrees to my upper right. Sometimes I fire it behind me or to the left. The reason I favor the right angle is that if I shoot a portrait and rotate my camera counter clockwise my flash would be pointing at the ceiling instead of the flood it it was pointing left.

what a handsome photographer!!😍

Great video!

Better than a college photography course. Thanks, bud!

I use the MagMod system...it's really good, assuming you know enough about lighting and all your technical knowledge. I use their 2 light softeners

Great video, i used something like this some yrs ago to choose the gary fong sphere, for a long time served me very well, but tbh since i tried out the selens, which then made me want the magmod( better quality product) so i swapped to that now. its quick and easy to use for me at events, i can switch on and off whatever i want, colour correct quickly, or magsphere grid and colour correct all at same time, for me its just light control, i am no expert at all, just someone using the gear i find the easiest to use, without an assistant. I like the result, i don't think there is a wrong or right, just get the shot and be happy, just be a master of what you do have. I do find though the gary fong needs more power, the magbounce needed much less power and thus in the long run saves me in battery costs and recycle time. good example video though.

Very detailed and helpful

Really excellent. Thanks.

Nicely done.

best flash demo ever. thank you for the tips

Felicidades! Este video es una joya!

The grid also makes for a great hair light coming in off of one side or behind. Great vid - thanks.

Great video

you my friend, know how to give a tutorial! Great Job

Excellent informative video...thanks

Remember folks...Photography is about how you capture light!...All these modifiers do is give you the artistic results that YOU prefer. ✌🏼🤙🏼

So helpful! My favourite is the flashdisc! 😍It gives beautiful highlight to the cheekbones, compared to all the others, while also producing medium light in the back. Shadows aren’t so harsh as well. #2 GaryFong: no undereyes, nice background too.

I modified Gary Fong light spheres by spraying the dome silver, and spraying the back of the modifier silver. Still got the diffusion, but flash recycle times where much faster and battery lasted longer. I used to try all those bounce techniques, but it was too fiddly run-and-gunning, and colour casts.

nice video!

Thought this was awesome Patrick!!!!!!!!!!!! I am just really starting out my professional career in photography and getting into flash and I have been messing around with the flashpoint ad200 and thinking I need to get a couple more speedlights for events!

asmr of the Gary Fong

Helpful. Thank you

Great video nice job

you are intelligent brother, thankyou

I don't have camera, not crazy taking photos but this clip is so great about explaining using Flash

Patrick, why you didn't used the other magmod modifiers, for instance mag bounce and mag dome

I use a canon with off camera flash but triggered by the built in flash. The off camera flash will have a flashbender to broaden the light or add a kick when i bounce flash. The onboard flash will also add a little bit of fill light.

You forgot the bounce flash with a small white bounce card connected inside the flash.

The side by side comparison is very helpful. Just curious, what lens are you using in this video? I can't remember if you mentioned it or not.

this is great for someone who doesn't know anything about flashes

I've seen many videos , but this is the only time i find the photographer is more handsome than the model.

For me i use the GF modifier, and i see now with your test GF is very powerfull, need reduce the power of flash for the same light renderer.. :-) nice for my battery ;-) The second is the price, the magmod are very very expensive.

I'm wondering if the MagGrid would be good for low light music event photography, where you may want to isolate a person, but keep some of the production lighting as ambient light.

I'd have liked to see how the Gary Fond Lightsphere worked with less power output compared with the flashdisc.

Interesting you lowered or changed the flash power for the FS diffuser and others but you didn't lower power on the Gary Fong and further commented on the hard shadows. I used the Gary Fong last week for graduation photos outdoors with good results, it can be used a variety of ways.

Direct Flash and Magmod Grid are very similar. Gary Fong is a good compromise between Direct Flash and Bounce Flash - somewhat directional without the harsh hot spots on the face. I might buy the Gary Fong and give it a try. I've been using a Stofen and bouncing it, but that doesn't work outside. Anyone have any luck with the Gary Fong outside ??

Thanks for the lovely video. Which modifier would you use when you have a ceiling that is about 20-30 feet high and you are shooting an event?

Comprehensive tutorial

What are your thoughts on soft-box diffusers like the Westcott Pocket Box and the use of a rotating flash bracket?

flashdisk off the camera was the best. It produced shadows, but soft, still giving 3D pop out unlike direct flash on camera options that flattened him.

Nice explanation. Made me learn something new. I've tried the direct flash - off camera (no modifier), but still can't get that blacked out background like you did in the video. i used 1/128 - 1/64 manual on SB-910 + wireless trigger on 1/160 shutter speed but the light from the flash also light up my background. what did i do wrong?

If only you would use the Gary Fong lightsphere correctly! Such as no dome when bouncing off ceilings!

i use often the gary fong to the wall at righ, or left.. it work!

Please let me know the photogrophers video lighting setting instead of the models one

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I think i like the Gary Fong the best but i've seen people struggle with the velcro. I just bought the mag mod sphere so hopefully that gives me a similar look. Anyone have experience with the mag mod sphere?

if you bounce bounce to the halfway point in the ceiling between the flash and the subject and nikon has a built in bounce card hidden behind the wide angle panel

The on on-camera flash disk does thins the face by creating shadows that narrow the face. A little more becoming for most of us who are plus sizes.

What about the little pull up flahcard in the strobe? Or for that matter the diffuser that comes with the flash. How can they be used if you do not have an after market modifier?

I think that it's worth saying that another possibility of bouncing flash off a non-white surface is that you might get a colour cast.

When you point the flash up how do you avoid the subject being low lit below the knee... top half is well lit but bottom half of subject is dark. Any tips?

This is such a hugely useful tutorial! What would you recommend when trying to light the couple during the first dance where you don’t want to throw light completely across the dance floor destroying the ambient light? I’ve been using a Lastolite Ezybox off camera but wanting a better solution! Thanks Patrick!

How about doing the bounce thing, with the white flash card up?

This video is fukin awesome. Thanks!

Hi Fstoppers, amazing comparison video! How about the small white bounce card built into the speedlite? Will you use it when shooting the light directly up into the ceiling onto the subject while it's on the camera?

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someone knows what benro tripod is he using on this video? Thanks, just the tripod... not the head

What do you think of the small soft box on-camera flash modifier?

I felt your comparisons were weak in that you cycled very quickly through your limited options. The one that stuck with me is the MagSphere. I'm surprised you didn't include it as it's an excellent diffuser, and if you shoot with two flashes like I sometimes do at events, the magnetic system is fast and easy allowing to pop the diffuser from one flash to another. The quality of the bounce is consistent and you also get solid diffusion if you shoot straight at your subject thanks to its design.

A very known pro told me that when you are bouncing off a colored wall then you do a FEC and increase the power to over ride the color and it works. Bounce off a red wall and do a FEC of +2 and I have no red color bouncing off the wall to my subject.

This is a good video.. I use Gary Fong Lightsphere.. It STAYS on my camera..

What happen when you dial down the exposure for the Gary Fong Sphere? since the last two modifier was dial down....

I like the bounce flash the most

Patrick - Sorry, this may be a stupid question. But, at around 21:24, when talking about using the disc direct off-camera as fill and still capturing the ambient light, what exactly do you mean when you say “drag the shutter”? Thanks, Patrick and Lee, keep it coming!!!

How about the magshere?

This tip applies only to old guys like me, but you should not use MagMod if you have a pacemaker. Most listing don't mention that, but I saw it on Amazon and contacted MagMod direct. They confirmed that people with pacemakers should not use the products with those magnets.

Strange no magbounce or magsphere?