Comments on: [Contest Entry] How To Shoot Fashion By Nick Fancher

By: Nick Fancher

Nick Fancher — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:34:00 +0000

You are correct. What I meant to say was that I dialed down all the light with the aperture. I was not in high speed sync mode and was maxed out at 1/200th of a second.

By: Nick Fancher

Nick Fancher — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:33:00 +0000

Yes they were

By: matthew young

matthew young — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:48:00 +0000

At 03:57 “I dial down the ambient light using my aperture”. Hmm, shouldn’t he using shutter speed for this? Because for a set amount of flash power, if you vary the aperture, it will affect both flash and ambient. But if you vary the shutter speed, the flash exposure will remain the same but the ambient is different, correct? Just wondering if I have this straight.

By: matthew young

matthew young — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:48:00 +0000

By: Sean Yeo

Sean Yeo — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:33:00 +0000

Awesome video and information. In the Levi’s shoot, the speed used was 1/800, are the flashes set to use High Speed Sync?

By: Dave Clendenan

Dave Clendenan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:30:00 +0000

I get more out of Nick’s videos than any ten other contributors. Love the streamlined approach. 5:05: “we just decided to shoot available light and were back in the car in 3 minutes” == awesome.

By: Jose Reyes

Jose Reyes — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:36:00 +0000

Awesome thanks for the update. Great stuff man and thanks again for taking time out of your busy schedule to post….those little things is what make you stand out from the rest!!!

By: Björn Terlegård

Björn Terlegård — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:49:00 +0000

Talk about creativity on demand!

By: Nick Fancher

Nick Fancher — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:36:00 +0000

Instead of a wide open aperture like I used for Andrew Marc (f/1.8), I opted for an aperture of f/8 or so. This nuked the ambient light. I just had to have the flash output fairly high. Also, you can reference the lighting diagram in the video with the EXIF data.

By: John Godwin

John Godwin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:29:00 +0000

You mention the 1.2/1.8 – I might be the only one, but I’ve found that beyond f2.8, the 1.8 is actually sharper and produces nicer images than the 1.2!