0:01 if I didn't know how to use Flash during
0:03 a ceremony I would have had to deliver
0:07 images like this but instead I was able
0:13 this I'm Nick Hilton and I'm going to
0:15 show you a great way to use Flash during a
0:22 ceremony so a bit of a background on
0:24 this particular setup this wedding was
0:26 supposed to take place outside but it
0:29 was very very rainy and stormy so we
0:33 moved the wedding into a barn and this
0:35 is how that Barn was laid out we had the
0:38 couple and the wedding party up near the
0:41 entrance of the barn and then we had all
0:45 of the audience sitting inside the barn
0:48 and the only source of light besides
0:51 some chandeliers was the natural light
0:54 that was coming from the open barn doors
0:56 behind the couple and the wedding party
0:58 this is extremely problematic because
1:01 now you have this super bright light
1:04 source behind your subjects and nothing
1:07 to light the front side of your subjects
1:09 it basically leaves you with either
1:12 exposing for the outside and attempting
1:15 to bring back the Shadows on your
1:18 subjects or you can add your own light
1:20 now with this ceremony I knew that if I
1:22 wanted to Brave the rain I could shoot
1:25 from outside you know be shooting
1:28 towards the audience the entire time but
1:30 while that's cool sometimes I didn't
1:32 want to shoot the entire ceremony from
1:35 from outside I did want some shots from
1:37 the audience's point of view and
1:39 shooting from the aisle for a little bit
1:43 so I knew I was going to have to use
1:45 Flash the venue was cool with me using
1:48 flash I asked the couple about it they
1:52 were cool so I grabbed two ad2 200s out
1:55 of my bag I put them on stands and then
1:57 got the trigger onto my
2:01 camera and if we look at our Barn setup
2:04 I placed my two flashes in the back two
2:08 corners behind the audience I put them
2:10 at equal power because I wanted even
2:13 output from both corners of the room and
2:16 then they're about 11 ft High that's
2:18 where my stands max out now the reason
2:21 you want your lights high is to one
2:24 create a natural angle and two I didn't
2:27 want any Shadows from the audience
2:29 hitting the wedding party and so like a
2:32 side tip if you put your light
2:35 High then the shadow is going to be very
2:38 very short whereas if you put your light
2:40 low when it hits your subject it's going
2:43 to cast a much longer
2:45 Shadow you can see this for yourself if
2:48 you go outside at noon all the Shadows
2:50 pretty much go straight down and then at
2:52 Golden hour when the sun is really
2:54 really low you get those very very long
2:57 drawn out shadows and so with this setup
2:59 what I was trying to do was basically
3:01 kind of make a light sandwich of the
3:03 couple and the wedding party you know
3:05 the couple's right here and I have the
3:08 natural light from outside coming this
3:13 way and so I put my flashes inside
3:16 pretty much to imitate and send light in
3:20 the other direction and with this setup
3:22 making this light sandwich it gives me
3:25 the freedom to wander around and shoot
3:28 from pretty much any angle that I can
3:30 fit physically
3:34 if I'm shooting from inside the barn
3:37 down the aisle for example then my flash
3:40 is kind of acting as a fill to bring up
3:43 the levels and match it with the
3:45 background when I'm shooting from
3:47 outside with this setup those flashes
3:49 inside are actually acting as a rim
3:51 light because now the natural light is
3:54 my key light and if I shoot from any
3:57 kind of side angles that flash acts as
4:00 like a fill and almost like a kicker
4:04 light and so you can get a lot of unique
4:06 perspectives and different angles while
4:09 still basically having light hitting
4:11 them from both sides pretty evenly real
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4:17 so once I had the lights set up and I
4:19 had this plan I knew that I was going to
4:19 be able to shoot from different
4:21 directions it was time to dial in the
4:23 settings before the ceremony started I
4:25 of course exposed for the ambient as I
4:30 always would and I settled on ISO 200 f
4:33 2.8 and shutter speed of 1 1200th
4:35 because that is my Max sync Speed
4:38 without going into highspeed sync now
4:40 because it was stormy uh the outside
4:42 wasn't as bright as it could have been
4:45 so I was able to keep my flash power at
4:49 116th that way I didn't have any slow
4:51 recycle time so that worked out really
4:53 well now take those settings with a
4:57 grain of salt because your scenario or
5:00 even my next scenario probably won't
5:02 work with those exact settings because
5:03 that's just how it works but as long as
5:06 you set your ambient and then just raise
5:09 or lower your flash power accordingly
5:12 you will be fine and really cool I
5:13 wasn't actually expecting it to work out
5:16 that well but because I was exposing for
5:19 the natural light that was outside as I
5:22 moved around and I went inside and
5:25 outside during the ceremony I did not
5:28 have to change my settings whatsoever
5:30 and now let's take a look again at these
5:33 two shots that were taking without Flash
5:38 look at how noisy and just awful these
5:40 are and how much detail you really can't
5:42 see on the subjects and then look at
5:45 when we shoot from the back of the aisle
5:47 with the flash look at how much I was
5:50 able to raise the exposure up and give
5:52 it a really nice look and now here are
5:56 some shots from other angles so you can
5:58 see the different effects of those flash
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6:15 so that is one basic way of using flash
6:18 during a ceremony I hope this video
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