Lighting Portraits On Location With ND Filters

video show, does the filter influence the sharpness?

Amazing stuff. Great work & thanks for the vid

What about sharpness??

Your work looks great but that model makes your work PERFECT. ❤😍

Hey I need some help I have the godox ad200 with the Sony a7c max shutter 1/4000 with HSS enabled. However when I shoot at this level shutter with both HSS enabled on the strobe and the Sony, the photo comes out completely black? Why is this

Very good tutorial for a beginner here. 🙏🏽

Greetings!
nice presentation, congratulations.
would you please give me your opinion on whether I should buy the original Canon or the soft one,

Canon EF-EOS R adapter with neutral density input filter (V-ND)

but can you use the lens hood?

Wow this is great.,perfect explanation,ease, simple and effective thanks a lots…

Good vid. "5.8" power doesn't mean much to those of us who dont know what the total power range of the strobe is.

Great video~~ Will ND Filter really save Flash power compared to HSS? For Full body photo, do we need a very strong flash? Thanks

Nowadays people use High-speed sync (HSS) for flash. The ND filters in flash were relevant 15 years ago ;-) Time goes on :-)

I felt hard working with AF with ND ?

Thank you again, actually had to refer back to these videos before buying NEW nd filters.

I have a sigma 30mm f1.4. I want to use the filter. So the 52 mm protector filter is correct for the 30 mm f 1.4? I want to use it for portraits. Thanks

This is great! Thanks

but do you think using a high speed sync would result in a sharper image , coz we can use a faster shutter speed ?

Watched Joel Grimes use an nod with at 1.8 on an overcast day and got motion blur in the clouds. Cool method and it really does give you back your flashes power.

Bra thanks for including the settings & the model of the lens because that’s so important

Great video, thanks

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Great video!! Quick question - Can you use ND grad filters to reduce overexposure of neon lights?? I am doing talking head vids in low light with a neon sign in the background. The problem is that the neon sign appears overexposed (white & blurry) even after I've made changes to the camera settings (Aperture, ISO and Shutter speed). Plus I am using 2 soft box lights and a Sony ZV-E10 with the Sigma 16mm f1.4 lens. Yout thoughts to using ND filters in this case??

Thank you!!

Can you please do this with the Sony a7c? Since I want to buy this Camera and some reviews point it's limitation to the shutter speed. Can you do similar Video using ND Filter but with Sony a7c shooting wide open like f/1.8 or f/1.4 etc....with external flash? Thanks!

hss with a2 profoto great video as usual

Is it was 2-5 stop???

Thanks for video

Hello Miguel, thanks to share this interesting video. Allow me 2 questions please:
1) Do you prefer to use a good solid ND or a good VND to shoot documentaries in Log 4K? I mean documentaries around the world to shoot cities and people.
2) Why everybody always uses the lens hood to shoot in sunny days, then when guys use a ND filter, nobody use the lens hood anymore? I think it is a bad habit not to use a lens hood with an ND filter. Thank you.

why 1/60? why not 1/200?

I just saw a few videos and I like your tutorials very much!

Nice! I was wondering about this.
I gotta try this. 👊🏾💯

Great series of videos. Thank you. BTW your model is amazingly beautiful. Great job both of you. Looking forward to many more videos.

I'm stuck with an old Paul C Buff Einstein that doesn't support HSS. Great for studio work but no good in an outdoor scenario like in the video. Would you buy an ND filter or try to sell the Einstein and buy something that supports HSS?

Thanks for posting this tutorial! This made it super easy to understand and I’ll have to try a ND filter next time I’m using flash 😊

Very succinctly explained Mr Quiles. Thank you. One question though. HSS and ND filters allow you to achieve the same thing, right? Expose for the background and then expose (light) the subject. So how do you choose one over the other?

Great . Thank you!

awesome shots. Now I really, really, really want that 135mm lens :o)

Excellent!!! Most photo guys wont use NDs on portret...

thanks for the video.

I had never understood why ND filters exist (known unknown) and I had never heard of high speed sync (unknown unknown). Thanks for the video. Very well done.

Thank you.

ND Filters are OK, the contrasts are a little fiddly, however HSS pictures are far better in my opinion. Thoughts?

The advantage of nd-filters over hss is that you don't drain the battery of your flash

What about electronic shutter? Will they work with a strobe to get shutter speeds faster than 1/8000?

I'm interested to see your HSS and comparison video. A lot of photographers claim you get more power using the ND method but I did a few tests of my own and didnt find that to be true at all. What I do agree however is that HSS likely drains your battery power more/ is more taxing on your flash than ND(slower recycle at max power etc)

Been using them for a while. What I hate is having to have a different one for each different lens.

Canon on the R5 had the EF to RF adapter with a built in variable ND filter. It's absolutely awesome as with a L grip on the R5 my finger tip is right at the dial for the ND. So it's like it has a built in adjustable ND filter that fits every lens. I set shutter speed and aperture and just dial in the ND I need to get under 1/200th with my fingertip. It's awesome. And I'm not looking to change to RF lenses at all.

Very interesting, I’ll watch the whole series of course.

Orlando squad 🤙💪 nice video brother!

Great video!! Could you have gotten the American results if you raised the F stop

Really great video. There are some cameras that are incapable of high speed sync,,so using an nd filter is a great option for shooting with open apertures