Simple Flash Portrait Photography Tips by Dom Bower
by admin on Monday, February 15th, 2010 | 25 Comments
Video showing / demonstrating how to take a nice portrait photo using flash indoors (studio). Photos taken with the nikon D300, nikon 50mm f1.4 and with the nikon cls sb900 flash and also the sb800. Video goes through normal non flash photo to umbrella flash and then simple high key looking images. www.dombower.com
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why would you bounce it off a wall?
thanks. i find it the same soo many boring old fat balding men talking in a boring way about photography.
You have a good way of getting this info across. Having looked at quite a few videos with boring grey men in you are a breath of fresh air. Love your style of explaining. Cheers.
expensive and not needed…. unless you are a canon user
You can also use a pocketwizzard..
Hi Dom, love your videos,can you tell me how to turn the in built flash on d300 off.I’m using two sb800′s and even though i’m putting the “2 dashes in the commander mode the in-built flash still goes off!!
I Have a Nikon D3000, and the SB600, my camera does not work with the flash in wireless mode, so If I leave the flash mounted on the camera, Is there any way I can make the black background photos and the flash just iluminating a part of your body?
why use su4 mode when you have Nikon CLS?
that’s true, but using su4 mode will mean you most likely cannot use ttl and have to go in manual mode
Actually, what i just said there is not true, i just tested it quickly with a sb900 and it does go off when the on-camera-flash is in ttl. I thought a bunch of preflashes would mess up the slave.. well, learnt another thing today! cheers on the vids though dom, everybody – including me – loves them !!
ah yes the bummer of the cheaper models. booo
there’s no reason for that of course, but the d40 range and the new Dx000 range doesnt have CLS, what is a awful shame, nikon could’ve just added that function softwarematic..
think cls is not easy and needs some serious software/hardware to work and helps justify the price for the more expensive stuff
yeah.. luckily im a happy D90 owner
don’t get why they do not put in the cheaper models though, puts them down to level of canon!!
Sorry, my question was of your other video, were you dont have a shirt on, when you take the photos that have a black background and the flash just iluminates a part of your body. Can I make that kind of photos with the flash mounted and bouncing it to the walls ?
how to get black photos???? dont take off the lens cap!
Hy Dom, I have a Nikon D3000 and the SB600 I would like to know if you can take the black photos with the flash mounted on the camera, can I bounce it to the wall to get the effect?
there is lots more where that came from, now have 240 videos up. ! and a book coming soon as well
Wow. This is really informative. I actually learned something! Thanks!
@GoncaloMagalhaes nikon cls! check out my other videos regarding flash to understand
Thank you for the tips. Learned a lot.
Just one question. At last shot you used the flash for background, flash on the umbrella and the pop-up flash right? How did u make the others flash to ‘flash’ when you take the picture without a wireless transmiter?
Loved it very much, it was plain and simple. What type flash was that?
Really pleasant, direct approach. Thanks
@Tortuga699 totally agree, you can still use the flashes in su4 mode old school style
@asjesus1 my pleasure, just hope people like the book as much!