Reflective Umbrella vs Shoot Through Umbrella... LIVE!

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2 ай бұрын

Umbrellas are an essential tool for portrait photographers for three reasons. They're cheap, they're easy to store and they can be used as an emergency umbrella when it rains on set! But's they're abilities to modify light that I'm mostly interested in and with that in mind umbrellas fall into two groups.
Reflective umbrellas bounce light onto your subject. Shoot through umbrellas diffuse the light before it reaches your subject. Both types of umbrella make the light from a flash larger and the shadows softer but is one or the other better? Let's find out together with a little help from my model "Polly".
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@turanmustak8765 2 ай бұрын

Hi Gavin, Sam and Freja. Thank you all for your efforts to bring us another great video...

@juliobarkan9529 2 ай бұрын

Great video as always and a big thanks to Sam. Freja and lets not forget the model, the amazing Polly and oh yes Gavin too.

@PhillipMcCallum 2 ай бұрын

Great video, as always. I watched while I cooked bacon and eggs breakfast, a great start to the day

@kennethnielsen3864 2 ай бұрын

Hello recorded Gavin, Sam and Freja. Thanks for sharing another super video.

@dexon555 2 ай бұрын

Another great video from Gavin and the team. 👍🏻

@jpdj2715 2 ай бұрын

This is exactly what the doctor ordered. One thing to assess as well is to see what the White Balance and Tint effect is, of the light modifier. At 29:18, the left side - light on the wall coming through the umbrella (in the lossy compressed video) looks slightly less grey than the right side reflected off the inside of the umbrella - left is brighter yes, but the RGB distribution also differs - i.e. tint. I keep all my lenses in one brand and quality range for that reason - no tint differences caused by the lenses. In a mixed - bought for being cheap only - situation you may end up with modifiers that each cast another tint on the subject. Tint is no problem if the same in an entire shoot but when you need to adjust in post for every few shots, for every modifier change, for every lens change (assuming the strobes/speedlights are OK) then it get a nuisance. And, the shoot through as parabolic with a backpanel gives great light - you could try a silver or white backpanel, hoping that the white shoot-through wil soften the silver of a backpanel. And, a deep parabolic umbrella will have 16 sections (and baleens) rather than 8 in the case here, thus giving less of the stripy effect we saw earlier in the video.

@itechflagstaff 2 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@JoseHernandez-jh3mg 2 ай бұрын

Another great video Gavin. I love umbrellas I personaly think they aré cool. A big hello and Best wishes to you and your wonderfull family from your fan from México. Thank you Gavin.

@patricktueth2637 Ай бұрын

Hello from chicago

@oneeyedphotographer 2 ай бұрын

37:00 I wonder whether that pattern matches the brolly. I wondered about that earlier too. As a landscape and urban photographer, I have learned to shoot for the light. I would be wondering how to use those patterns in the final result.

@oneeyedphotographer 2 ай бұрын

32:00 Additionally, the flash is off-centre. To be centred, the rod has to go through the flash. A ring flash should work better.

@jimmyhinAK Ай бұрын

I realized something i would like to try with the shoot through umbrella maybe to go ultra cheap by putting a black garbage bag or piece of plastic to hopefully bounce back the light and see the results

@s.j.stuart 2 ай бұрын

"Hey, Siri, set a reminder for December 30th... remind Gavin to do a New Years karaoke live stream"

@GavinHoey 2 ай бұрын

You'll be 24 hours early but first in the queue 🤣

@s.j.stuart 2 ай бұрын

@@GavinHoey The algorithm would love it though 😄

@DonaldWMeyers-dwm 2 ай бұрын

If you're not using a flash meter but relying on guide numbers and distance measurement, where do you measure the distance to subject from: The flash head, the back of the umbrella, or the outer edge?

@GavinHoey 2 ай бұрын

Guide numbers are not super helpful for that. Flash power, zoom settings, light mods all increase or decrease the GN number so honestly I'd not tie yourself up in knots with mathematics 😉

@pedroagonzalezfoto Ай бұрын

Hi from a recording guy in A Coruña (Galicia, Sain) 🙂

@pedroagonzalezfoto Ай бұрын

And, yes, I also use an umbrella

@geoffmiller1055 2 ай бұрын

Hi everyone

@squidskunk Ай бұрын

at one point i thought you may use the reflective and shoot through umbrellas together to make an umbrella soft box...just for demo purposes...

@GavinHoey Ай бұрын

Now that's a brilliant demo idea. I so wish I had thought of that 🤦‍♂️

@Chris-cq5bz Ай бұрын

Gavin great videos as ever. Can I ask what laptop do you use.

@GavinHoey Ай бұрын

That's my Dynabook 14" super lightweight laptop. I upgraded the ram to 16GB and it runs on an SSD. The onboard graphics are painful but for light work like tethering they do the job. I think they used to be called Toshiba 👍

@Chris-cq5bz Ай бұрын

Thank u so much