How to use High Speed Sync for your Portrait Photography

Have you ever tried using high-speed syn for your portrait photography? Well, in this step-by-step tutorial I show you how to do it quickly and easily to create unique portraits.

These techniques would apply to any type of photography from weddings, engagements, boudoir, families, etc. We will cover how to use high-speed sync using the Westcott FJ400 and the FJ-X3M

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0:00 - Intro
0:40 - HSS Breakdown
3:33 - First Shot
6:20 - Second Location

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[drshawnie]

Sal your energy and talent is infectious!

[emmanuelvincent]

Impressive pictures of an amazing model, wooow ! Congrats all 👏 Very inspiring

[nektarios]

Great, perfect video!! You are the best!!

[albertw]

Another awesome video Sal! Thank you for the video! Love working with high-speed sync.

[NOTHING-]

Hey man i am not a photographer expert or something like that and i didnt even understand about your physics i just love ur shots the way you take the pictures and yhe detailing in it bro u are the legend u are owsome man ❤❤

[GordonCaines-np]

Great Work!! Not sure, but did I hear you say that you started the shoot, with the flash set at half power?

[Frank]

Great work Sal. Thank you for the video. I look forward to your videos. Informative and helpful. I was surprised to see that you shot in aperture priority mode and not manual mode.

[amadorivasphotography]

I'm always leery about using my strobe without a softbox of some sort. Then I see your video using just the reflector and I wonder why I don't do it more often. Great video! Loved the images with the fence behind her!

[binaryinfections]

What do you think about Sonys new camera with it syncing at any speed now, and no more hss

[DIGITALMIND]

Great work. Just to confirm, are you feathering the light by slightly angling the strobe upwards?

[zorraw]

Thanks for the video. One more question: what is name of Marylyn's dress? ;-)

[JohnDoe-gbzh]

Am I correct that you would be able to take the same photographs with westcott fj200? You would just have to run it at a little bit higher power

[fountainvalley]

Great images. It’s interesting that Sony made high speed sync obsolete with their new global shutter.

[franciscoherrera]

Sal, what lightstand did you use in this video?

[glendavis]

!/2000th sync for strobe? I'll have to do some homework on which cameras can do that. My Nikon tops out @ 1/350th. I like your vids. Thanks for sharing!

[franklinmoragane]

Yes I'm looking at your work but my camera doesn't have f/1.2 so what do I use for the job 😢

[franklinmoragane]

My camera is a Canon EOS 80d how do I get all my settings correctly to have the same shots

[krystlesmithphotography]

How are you getting your shutter speed to 1/2000? I have this exact hotshoe/lights with the Canon R6mii and mine won’t go above 1/200 or 1/250.

[AnalyseSciences]

How can you work on Aperture mode with fix ISO?

[conn_man_]

I can’t get shutter in any of the 1000s it’s only at 250 how do I get that with my camera which is a canon r6 mk 2 in the 1000s for the strobe