Beginner Indoor Flash Photography for Portraits Tutorial | Direct and Bounce Flash

Join Vanessa Joy in this beginner indoor flash photography tutorial to see a few easy ways to use flash in your portrait photography. We'll go over direct and bounce flash, and why you might like one over the other, plus some creative ways to bounce flash when you don't have "bounceable" walls.

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THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING!

[ghosttne]

I like the way you used a beginner camera with the kit lens, this helps a lot, will want to see more videos like this with a beginner kit.
Thanks... keep it up👍👍👍

[wannabeturbo]

Nice video. Btw my favorite part was not the feet, but the flash the can adjust on its own. Mind-blown!

[brucesmith]

Nice that you demonstrated this concept on a camera most folks tend to have. With a basic kit lens and good knowledge, one can get a great picture. Do you recommend any flash modifiers for softening flash if neither a wall nor reflector are available.

[Black_Jesus]

This is great! Direct flash reminds me of some of the photos my mom had in her albums lol.

[abdulazizawadh]

Wow!!! What makes a black line when you use the flash

[DavidHargis]

Great video. Provided me a great starting point for understanding flash usage.

[ajasproduction]

Fantastic tutorial, thank you so much Vanessa!

[antpruitt]

T7 is quite nice for the pricing. Did a flash tutorial on my show recently, as well.

[kevinridley]

yep it's the warm look off the wall for me too :)

[DavidVelezPhotography]

Thanks Vanessa! When you bounced off of the wall, was there any color casting? Adding the white reflector made a difference, along with increasing the size of your light source.

[maggimarmion]

Lovely images . Did you have your flash settings on ttl? You didn’t cover the flash setting

[pablodoncor]

Hi Vanessa, thanks for this tutorial, it means a lot. One doubt though, would be ok if I kill the ambient light by raising the aperture (till I got a black photo without flash) and then add the flash in order to use only that source light. I've seen so many photographers teaching this, so I was wondering if there's any difference. Thanks in advance for your help and cheers from Argentina.

[AngeloTullio]

Hi Vanessa, nice video!!! Did you use flash in TTL mode?

[Eye-V.]

Super practical video. Thanks Vanessa!

[brianeibisch]

This young model is the most beautiful girl on the internet; she is just so photogenic!!

[innesstroud]

Another great content featuring my favorite camera could you do another featuring the 80D ???

[gregoirelenoel]

If I understand well, the T7 is 2000D in europe. Then it is only compatible with ttl mode of the flash anyway, wich impairs the capacity to create when growing skill. Howether, for beginners or it not willing to care about manually setting the flash, that still makes a good starting DSLR, not much expensive. Also, the T7 is limited to ex and/or e-ttl2 compatible seedlights, all of wich are expensive (from my point of view at least). I actually bought a EOS 100D to replace my 2000d/t7 and place on it the tiers brand speedlight I had bought, for it does not work with the t7 and it works with the 100d (sl1 in us?), and the price of it, second hand, while selling the T7, makes it neutral for my budget. Howether, I have to admit the speedlight model used in this video must be about the less expensive genuine from canon, wich makes it affordable in comparison to the material in use by many professionals. This does not go against the fact that a professional obtains good results even from a low-end camera: Vanessa, the photos you have from this T7 are great! No need of a 5Dmk4 to have great pictures, it only gives more options to get them but the main idea is to know the equipment and how it works to adapt and obtain the shot. Also, the Idea to make the tutorial for beginners with equipment for beginners is great, since it shows beginners how to obtain the best of what actually is available to them.

[ashwinukey]

Wow, that flash made a whole lot off difference. 🤓

[mywildlifestories]

Just love it. We need more such videos to use minimal gears.please have one on Nikon as well

[peterevans]

Enjoyed the video very much, but was a little surprised you started straight in with the ISO at 1600...When you looked at the finished images on the PC, could you see any loss of quality?