Off-Camera Flash Tutorial: Indoor & Outdoor Portraits

Tony & Chelsea Northrup share tips for off-camera flash photography using portable studio monolights and softboxes. They setup a photoshoot in their home, garden, and portrait studio to demonstrate how versatile a monolight can be.

0:00 Introduction
0:42 Monolight/strobe overview
3:37 Adorama Promo
4:07 Outdoor Lighting
5:28 Using High Speed Sync (HSS)
6:15 Our favorite light stands
6:32 Studio lighting overview
7:21 2-light studio photography with gels
8:25 Adorama Promo

[ADivaForLife]

2 -5 inches to the right you would see me being so excited to see Tony and Chelsea again 😄😄.. great job Kela

[numara]

Please! More tutorials and how to videos... 👍

[renestaempfli]

This setup produces lots of unpleasant flash hotspots.

[dream.machine]

Here super early. Excellent tips!
She looks so pretty 😍

[Teslien]

Won't make your pictures look better but you'll look more professional 🙂. Even tho I would get the shot first try, I still mess w my camera settings to appear to be professional

[Neopulse]

4:45 - There's a heavy duty light stand that's inexpensive by Neewer on Amazon that goes up to 2.4 feet, but down to 7.8". Your back will thank you.

[gradysanders]

I have a question that would make an absolute great video. Which camera has the absolute best high iso performance in full frame and smaller. 99% of us are probably in the full frame and below budget. I hope you consider this?

[ehjvemo]

4:51 - 4:56 looks a bit overexposed to me. 5:09 - good.
overall nice tutorial thanks

[zoomzoom]

For some reason, the rendering of highlighted areas on the model's face is poor, almost to the extent that the added light in many of the photos seems inferior to simply opening the shades etc. in post-processing.

[YaYousef]

RIP to your eyes if you tap on this video in a dark room.

[Cotictimmy]

Can that strobe be operated on mains power as well as battery?

[LoFiAxolotl]

I disagree with Tony and Chelsea on a lot of things... especially what aperture a lens should be set at... but this video is incredibly important... i know lighting is not a "sexy" topic... but photography is capturing light... exposure triangle, mega pixel, poses etc etc etc all really don't matter... i know many many many professional photographers who don't even own a camera because clients rent their P1 or Hassy for the shoots... but what they're good at and why they're at the top of their field is because they know how to use light... light is really 99.9% of photography

instead of investing money into silly f/1.2 or f/1.4 lenses or a canon f/2 zoom for some reason... buy yourself 2-3 inexpensive strobes like this one or a godox ad100/200/300 etc etc and learn how to use light... especially everything involving portraits the light makes all the difference... even if you really really really like natural light... i promise you... with a strobe your pictures will look better

[joopruck]

For portraits indoors, that flash is overkill. A speedlight would be sufficient.

[djxcel]

Why spend so much on a 1 light, When you can get a 2 ad100’s for the same price

[Photoandcargeek]

As you are techy people, I must tell you that a red light is technically a cold light (lower K value means colder) and a blue light is a hot light .... I know, it is confusing but true.

PS: your sound effects for the shutter are outdated by over a decade :P