How to Freeze and Capture Motion Using Flash

How to Freeze and Capture Motion Using Flash | Master Your Craft

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One of the great aspects of studio flashes is their ability to freeze action. In this video, Pye walks through the setup and techniques for capturing dance portraits in motion.
How to Freeze and Capture Motion Using Flash
Intro: 0:00 - 0:33
What You Need: 0:34 - 1:35
Composition: 1:36 - 3:05
Ambient Light: 3:06 - 5:12
Modify/Add Light: 5:13 - 10:39
Pose/Photograph: 10:40 - 11:43
Outro: 11:44 - 12:06
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THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING!

Пікірлер: 120

@slrlounge Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! What would you like to learn next?

@obedgrant6347 Жыл бұрын

Yeah sure 👍

@paulhales8369 Жыл бұрын

Would like to see how to light groups and couples in a studio setting.

@blastangel8063 Жыл бұрын

A follow up on how you edited them would be great I have shots in the studio like those but the edits never pop or look as clean as you showed at the end of the vide

@AratrikNandy Жыл бұрын

How did you edit these photos

@thedoonvibes29 Жыл бұрын

How to decide color for our photoshop and about Color theory

@victormultanen1981 Жыл бұрын

the waw-factor of this off-camera strobe tutorial is 10 of a 10.

@jimkearns534 Жыл бұрын

Of all the flash how to videos I have watched you are the first that has acknowledged and discussed the ghosting issue and how to resolve it, thank you.

@FrankP83 Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial, the graphics representation of the flash power is very explanatory...could you also continue this tutorial with the editing for have the final shot without background? 😃 Thanks Pye!

@TheSvenChannel Жыл бұрын

ICYMI: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jJyemMp4ut-lnYU.html

@richardcooke3562 Жыл бұрын

Video on editing out the extraneous details on the edges would be great. Thanks again for another great video

@Mattross52 Жыл бұрын

It’s so easy just use the patch tool or highlight the stuff that needs to go and right click ‘content aware fill’ mess with layers, dodging and burning and more patching to clean it up a bit

@trinicapone Жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial part 1. Now we need the 2nd part Pye, you can’t leave us hanging.

@Isaypreach Жыл бұрын

Man brother Pye be breaking shit down to a science and does it with out over complicating things or half ass explaining. Much appreciated bro.

@obedgrant6347 Жыл бұрын

Great job bro, im student photographer at the national film and television institute in Ghana-West Africa, and I must confess today!! here has been my learning platform ever👌😇💫💯

@mcs3015 Жыл бұрын

thanks for making this so comprehensible but still technically complete! great demo and samples.

@lolabanky3305 Жыл бұрын

wow! explanation is amazing and understandable! I have heard this concept before and have seen many movement frozen without a clue as to how its down, the secret is out! Thank you for breaking it DOWN!!! excuse me while I go freeze motion! Practice, Practice, practice. Thanks my favorite Mr. Pye! Gratitude!

@MegaFLYBOY2 Жыл бұрын

Excellent flow to these videos: Simple and dumbed-down for the non-techies. At some point last year I unconsciously stopped referring to "Ritz Camera" and started referring to "Adorama". Good job👍

@inovartesmedialdainovartes2041 Жыл бұрын

Powerful video! After all these years, I surely needed this!

@mattorrz759 Жыл бұрын

That was brilliant Pie. Your explanation of flash duration really helped me understand it better. Loved the resulting images.

@ozgemmo3445 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant video!! Also what a fabulous model - such poise and execution of movement, total poetry in motion!!

@andymcgarty3099 Жыл бұрын

What a great video. Never tried rapid fire on a dancer, always tried to catch the moment. Will definitely be trying this, thank you.

@tonyfphotography 5 ай бұрын

The explanation of flash duration was a great ah-ha moment for me. Great educational piece here.

@bill1i2am Жыл бұрын

best yet

@stephenmuller5098 Жыл бұрын

Simple to understand tutorial, thanks!

@werito82 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this tutorial, I really needed this for a shoot tonight 😅.

@brianjackson8505 Жыл бұрын

Excellent tutirial covering the salinet points in a clear and structured manner. A follow up on editing would be awesome...

@photo2000 Жыл бұрын

This is a really good tutorial on flash duration. Many beginners and some experienced photographers, are not aware that flash actually has a duration, and at longer durations can actually cause motion blur to occur. Simply by quartering the light output of a flash, can dramatically decrease flash duration, and freeze most model motion. May need to go even further, testing and reference to flash manual will show flash duration to power and equivalent shutter speed.

@Hutch400 Жыл бұрын

This was way easy to understand now...thanks!!!!

@markabbott638 Жыл бұрын

Great clear and concise explanation.

@bala1000mina Жыл бұрын

Great Tutorial! Thank you so much!

@Karthik-qz6rw 3 ай бұрын

Your great sir and explain about post too... thanks tons of time..

@chukwunonso.captures Жыл бұрын

Great video. Ghosting from ambient light is definitely something to keep in mind and try to avoid. 📸📸📸

@canucklehead28 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Pye.

@moovieman693 Жыл бұрын

You are a great instructor!!

@thats_mr_b_ Жыл бұрын

My guy Pye, adding this one to my light learning playlist. Haha I love the shade you throw to the trolls/petty commenters.

@sweetblueman Жыл бұрын

Thank you..great video..

@atticautos484 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Thank you.

@oluwafemiolasupo1149 Жыл бұрын

Thank you The editing video will be appreciated Thank you once again

@valdemarcaballero5298 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your videos Pye!!!! yes yes, we want post- video :D

@ainaoluwapelumi4935 Жыл бұрын

Wow really love this tutorial

@inovartesmedialdainovartes2041 Жыл бұрын

Thank you dearly! 😎👌🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿💯

@mugabedaniel9858 Жыл бұрын

This is cool. great tutorial and thanks.

@user-pf8dk4cx8i Ай бұрын

Nice presentation manner !

@terrellsimmons7029 Жыл бұрын

Wow love this 🙌🏾🔥✨

@Cobycom1 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks!

@johnmckay428 Жыл бұрын

very helpful thank you!

@RedDoorBD Жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial

@thomastuorto9929 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the vid &, Nice studio.

@AK-hk2pd Жыл бұрын

Thanks Pye 👍

@MosesMind Жыл бұрын

love the new intro

@johnuthanmarcelle3149 Жыл бұрын

Please do a video on the editing process of these images!!!! Great video I never thought about the flash duration in high speed sync!

@ba553y Жыл бұрын

Yeah I love the new intro

@jaimeduncan6167 Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial.

@stephenbernard4675 Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial, can you get the same results using continuous light rather than flash?

@collinh8911 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful! Could you do one that looks at dance and OCF outdoors/on location? I'd also love to see your edit following this. Thank you!!

@moderntimes4814 9 ай бұрын

Love to see the post-production of how you control the BG.

@ravisethi3734 Жыл бұрын

best video explaining photographing dance movements with flash. How to replicate process outdoors ?

@automationintothings Жыл бұрын

Great video, very informative. Question: It would be nice to know the best approach to have a set of these photos in 1 image. Showing the movement.

@lighthackerslimited Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@JCBike32 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff !! Flash duration is so under rated …

@trevorphillips3276 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see the retouching!

@Sparty12161 Жыл бұрын

Nice video! I must have missed the section on creating similar images using one strobe. Would you mind sharing that process? Thanks

@vimacce Жыл бұрын

Nice!!!

@janlasalle8845 Жыл бұрын

Ive been shoot dance for several years in the studio and always iso 100...I do one shot at a time not a series and that seems to work for me with tack sharp images and perfect peak action shots...I like the placement of your lights...Ill try that although not many of us have your kind of space and Im not sure if this will work but thanks for the tips.

@SammismsTV Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I wish you have tutorial on how you post edited these photos. ❤

@Ben_D. 3 ай бұрын

Dancers are such great subjects to shoot. I also like Nika Ritshel here on YT. She does some very artistic stuff.

@stevemadrid6522 9 ай бұрын

Wow! Great info! I shoot a lot of dance and this was extremely helpful! Pye, you're a bad a**!

@MosesMind Жыл бұрын

very nice tutorial

@adammorgan7829 Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. On the bucket list of photography to try. Question for you about the R5. Do you turn off image stabilization when you mount the R5 on a tripod? (Lens, body or both?). I know the 28-70 f2 has none, but will the body stabilization cause issues? Dslr's stabilized lenses caused soft images when tripod mounted. Not sure on mirrorless though.

@madalitsophiri7457 Жыл бұрын

Your Presets Are So Crazy🔥🔥🔥🔥

@Mr.JaysonDasco Жыл бұрын

Help with the edit 🙌

@edross2826 Жыл бұрын

Pye, you are the man. I don't shoot too frequently in the studio because I don't have a studio. I was having problems with missing the shots with fast-moving dancers because the flash did not have enough time to recycle. I thought that I have to invest in a battery pack to boost the flashes, but I never thought of raising my ISO to lower the power in my strobes. Thanks to you now will be able to get those shots.

@kelfarley Жыл бұрын

Same here. That was kind of a "duh" moment for me.

@emmettphotography Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. What material was the model using to wave around? It looks amazing. Thanks.

@jianping5976 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video, what kinds of backdrop matertial is it?

@pictureeyecandy Жыл бұрын

Great info I get shooting wide but I think you could have shot a little tighter. Thanks

@demonehenderson16 Жыл бұрын

Yes Photoshop Tutorial!!

@jesusgjchuza6491 Жыл бұрын

Nice 🤟🏼🤝😎

@antoinernb9398 Жыл бұрын

I have learned something

@anjanakkw Жыл бұрын

thank you so much for all great content Pye. just curious, don't you teather in studio?

@TheSvenChannel Жыл бұрын

I was totally expecting the video to discuss the FJ400 freeze mode function, since that feature is designed to do exactly what this video is about. I understand the freeze mode also reduces the power, but I'd guess it's more efficient at lowering the flash duration, than just dialing down the power in regular flash mode.

@pathankotiya Жыл бұрын

Definitely a video of how you edited these pics in PS. The actual and the edited shots look totally different.

@cruzzzcruisin1763 Жыл бұрын

nice!..wat type of backround s dat?..vinyl material?..thank u for sharing this technique...☺😘😎

@merkin22 2 ай бұрын

Great refresher, thanks!; I haven't shot with my strobes for a couple of years (!) and as fate would have it planning to shoot a dancer very soon. You do say at one point that the different between main and fill is about one stop, and I set my lights separately in the "M" stage in any event :) But a question of curiosity, is it because of the particular lights you're using (I'm a profoto guy) that you gave the power setting in watt seconds? Worse are you doing the math? :) Again, this video really brought it all back quickly for me (and helped clarify beautifully the role ISO when shooting flash!) -- thanks!

@johnclay7644 Жыл бұрын

useful 12mins of video.

@petervagvolgyiphotography 9 ай бұрын

""BUT.." Long time follower of Pye and Adorama, but there are many things I would do differently approaching this shoot. (I know there's many ways to do the same thing but I would.. 1) go to the back of the studio and shoot from as far as possible zoomed in enough to just about cover the backdrop in the frame. 50mm-85mm (higer if studio lets you) lenses will help you to avoid unnaturally long limbs that end up close to the edge of a wide angle lens.) Clean up would be easier with less distraction at the edge of the frame and dancer look more pleasing "close to life" without the wide angle look. 2) shoot from a lower angle (hip height or lower so jumps look higher and the dancer can concentrate on the form instead of the power of the jump) 3) when you have only a 400ws light and an umbrella why dont you turn that light around and pointed to the dancer or use a silver interior umbrella instead or even better silver inside with diffusion outside like a softlighter or umbrella softbox? 4) when you don't have the luxury of a 1200ws light on a low setting with t1 1/2000 or lower learn the movement and predict the peak point of the jump so you can take one shot instead of "spray and pray" 5) probably would draw those curtains too for less ambiant light that can mess with the exposure. this way I can have a wider aperture lets say f5.6-11 this way the strobe doesn't have to work overtime to push the light through the tiny aperture allowing me to use a lower ISO. I'm London based but would love to work with dancers from the USA. Maybe one day I can visit. PS.: The above is just personal opinion and what would work for me and in no way mocking the work of Pye and Adorama. Regards, Peter Vagvolgyi Photography

@josephchan4198 Жыл бұрын

I was wondering if you can do fashion Jewelry, gym outfits, or product shots? Thanks.

@rosalindagarcia4468 7 ай бұрын

Hello Pye! What are you camera settings besides the ISO, aperture, and SS? Thank you! PS….. I have a canon EOS 5 d mark lll

@yeohszehow Жыл бұрын

Happy Deepavali

@fountainvalley100 Жыл бұрын

I would like to see the editing of these images.

@chionoman Жыл бұрын

I only have 8.5ft with my backdrop. The problem is a jump with fabric, it leaves the backdrop area. I would like to see how you can extend that backdrop in post processing, thats all I can think of to do other than tear out the roof and make it higher :)

@Mattross52 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been doing more dance lately, and just do the 1, 2, 3 method. Timing my shutter with when the jump trying to get it at the perfect point. The thought of hiking up the iso and using bursts makes me cringe, but damn I can’t argue with your results. Definitely beating me🤦🏻‍♂️

@oo0RECON0oo Жыл бұрын

So the darker the ambient the more frozen the subject? How does auto iso handle freezing the subject? My understanding is that it is more accurate in its exposure amount then manually setting the flash power?

@asarz92 3 ай бұрын

Stupidly, I would have activated HSS and do a shot by shot. But having the drive mode and a sequence makes it easier to get the shot you want and not redo the model because its difficult to trigger it. A lesson learned

@tayebamghar07 Жыл бұрын

you can put shutter at 1/600 or more and flash power at 1/4 or 1/2 (depend on your ISO setting ) and you will get freeze shot and better light than what we have seen now

@b991228 Жыл бұрын

Setup the camera in portrait and stitching two or three shoots together so the your image megapixel resolution is higher yet you can still frame the final image in a reasonably standard aspect ratio. Ratios around 1x1, 6x4 or 2x1. FRAME BIG!

@DAMCT1 Жыл бұрын

Any tips on focussing? My R6 struggles to focus even with the modeling light on because the room is too dark before the strobe fires. If my model is close to the light it's fine but when I try to do a full body dace shot it's too dark. (I'm using one Einstein light and there's not a lot of natural light for proper settings)

@tonysluna Жыл бұрын

great video.. loved it very helpful i would like to ask... the Male Model wearing All Black with Black Hat... is his name.. Jhesus Aponte?

@DesignerDawn 11 ай бұрын

if you use iso 800 in order to use a lower flash power will you have iso grain too or does the flash duration result in sharp images within the skin texture of the model?

@stevenmeansphotography3861 Жыл бұрын

Can you tell me the process to get the background white as you did

@eduard.amihai7545 Жыл бұрын

Loved the part of the comments 😂😂

@himalayareaders Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

@look9005 11 ай бұрын

ok - so you are using the mechanical shutter? or curtain shutter? or which shutter for HSS high speed sync

@Emchen88 Жыл бұрын

The dancings are always performance on stage instated of shooting in studio lighting . Try to capture the best moments . I have more than 15 years experience to photo shooting performance arts in several music centers/theaters in Los Angeles !

@b991228 Жыл бұрын

Does lighting the studio as dark as is reasonable allow you to further decrease strobe power/duration? I guess jumping in the dark would not be something you would recommend.