How to Take Flower Photos With a Black Background

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Жыл бұрын

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In this video I am going to share one of my favourite techniques - How to photograph flower photos with a black background using only your camera I a single flash gun.
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@michaelbattista1334 2 күн бұрын

I’ve done this and it works great. Only in my studio with studio lights just turned on because I don’t have a flash. Still works the same.

@user-yr4mc2ej4c Жыл бұрын

I've always wondered how these pictures were taken.. thanks a lot for teaching us! ❤

@JasonFriendPhotography Жыл бұрын

Absolute pleasure! Pleased you enjoyed it!

@stevehageman6785 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

@youritguy1 15 күн бұрын

Great video and amazing tip. Thank you

@36on22 5 ай бұрын

Great video! Subscribed. The suggestion about preference for distance between subject and background is very helpful. (I use a wireless flash setup and a remote shutter release, letting me move freely around the mounted camera and subject.)

@toomanyjstoomanyrs1705 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the tutorial, will give it a try

@JasonFriendPhotography 8 ай бұрын

It was a pleasure. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions (but I’m sure you’ll be fine!)

@williamfalls5681 3 ай бұрын

Excellent.

@JasonFriendPhotography 3 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

@user-zn3hf9ow6i 8 ай бұрын

I love the tripod. I would like to know who makes it and the model number if you don't mind. Thank you

@joestarlite Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video, I'll give this a try. By the way, if you have a Botanical garden near by, you can find lots of flowers and other plants to photograph. I like to go to the San Francisco Botanical garden in Golden Gate Park to photograph flowers. 55 acres with flowers and plants from around the world.

@JasonFriendPhotography Жыл бұрын

Pleased you enjoyed it! Yes, I’ve tried it at a local botanical garden and it was great fun. I was very conscious about the strobe light firing all of the time though!

@Joe_I_Hadley 21 күн бұрын

I do flower photography. I recently got a Neewer V1 flash and it has remote triggering built in but I cant figure out how to use it. I want to try this😊 😊😊😊

@ShawnKing Жыл бұрын

I'm not a "flower photography" guy and I've always wondered how this effect was created. Thanks for the very informative video on this simple technique. You've inspired me to go out and try it!

@JasonFriendPhotography Жыл бұрын

I’m really pleased you enjoyed it Shawn. It’s a great technique for a number of subjects - not just flowers! I particularly like it for mushroom ands toadstools in autumn (I did mean to include some examples in the video but unfortunately forgot!).

@MassimoFattori Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this suggestions. Just a question you use multiple shots? Take the black one as first and then made the others with different flash position?

@JasonFriendPhotography Жыл бұрын

Hi. Yes… but basically lots of different shots so I can experiment with the angle and position of the flash gun. I would normally review them as i take each shot and when I think I have found my preferred direction, then take the final image. So essentially you may take 20 shots but there will only be one keeper.

@ShawnKing Жыл бұрын

@@JasonFriendPhotography Just to be clear - Massimo asked, "Just a question you use multiple shots?" and you said yes. Does that mean you take a shot that is "pure" black, then your flower shots and then merge them in software? It doesn't seem like that's what you did in the video. That's an extra step from the way it looks in the video.

@JasonFriendPhotography Жыл бұрын

I take a few different lighting angles and then choose my favourite. So it is a pure single shot….no images are combined. This article may help… www.jasonfriendphotography.com/photography-tutorials/how-to-shoot-low-key-close-up-photos/

@kevindickinson1541 2 ай бұрын

Hi Jason. I have just come across this video. I understand getting the black background. I do it all the time in my Still Life Studio. By taking several shots is that so you have choice which one to use or are you combining all the images into one image.

@JasonFriendPhotography 2 ай бұрын

Hi Kevin. I’m just choosing the one to use

@angelathomas2117 6 ай бұрын

Hi really good video do you think that cord would work on a Olympus camera 😀

@JasonFriendPhotography 6 ай бұрын

Hi. Thanks! Yes, it would (same pins as Panasonic)

@angelathomas2117 6 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@gusrod2000 3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for that amazing video, I managed to get good results with your instructions, what lens do you suggest for this? I did have decent results with my nikon d7100 and a sigma 17-55 2.8, but I tried with my all day camera fuji xt1 and 18-55 2.8 ans flowers ended up somewhat blurry...

@JasonFriendPhotography 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment... I used to own the XT1 and the focusing could be unreliable... have you tried manually focussing?

@gusrod2000 2 ай бұрын

@@JasonFriendPhotography I tried manually focusing, but with mirrorles viewfinder is kind of a double edge sword... Is a bit cumbersome and unreliable, I think I'll be sticking to my old trusty Nikon and let fuji for other things, I am having really hard times getting use to EVF....

@joepublisher166 Ай бұрын

How do you combine all the flash shots into one shot? Post?

@JasonFriendPhotography Ай бұрын

You don’t combine them.., you just choose the best one. I only take a variety simply to try different angles… there is no combining of images… tbh you could probably get away without any kind of post production

@joepublisher166 Ай бұрын

@@JasonFriendPhotography Thank you, wasn't sure if these were multiple exposures or post processing. Thanks for the video!

@GregJorgo 8 ай бұрын

Did you say that you set the flash to manual?

@JasonFriendPhotography 8 ай бұрын

Yes… you need to be able to control the power yourself

@GregJorgo 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Jason, appreciated.@@JasonFriendPhotography

@braaji Жыл бұрын

What's the aperture?

@JasonFriendPhotography Жыл бұрын

Always has to be high (f20 upwards - I did mention the aperture I used in the video). The reason for being so high is that you need to block out as much light as possible to create the black background (so low iso, shutter speed set at fastest for syncing (1/250 in my case) and high f-stop)