Recreating Golden Hour - Using Flash & Lightroom To Mimic The Sun

OK THANK

 

Here are the exercise files and presets for Recreating Golden Hour.

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When running your flash in HSS the flash loses efficiency. With ND filter you are likely to get better exposures however, you must ensure that you don't bump up the ISO for the sake of it, rather use the ND filter to reduce your shutter speed to put it synch with the max sycnh speed, this means that it will be a bad idea to actually use it in actual golden hour due to lower available light. Using lower ND stop filters is desirable to avoid excesive bump in ISO when needed. I would also like to mention that the whole idea behind the ND filter is to be able to shoot wide open when using flash during day light wihtout losing flash efficiency. When using lower f stop values, you don't really need a ND filter.

Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LltjDbMjdX0
He claims that using ND filters instead of HSS yields better flash efficiency.

 

You are sooo friggin smart! I just learned something from you! hahaha! Thank you!!

 

You are welcome. When trying to recreate golden hour with flash. As a general rule of thumb the bigger and more powerful the flash the more wider shot you can achieve as the flash can be placed back further away from the shot to light up the environment for a convincing sunset. We are talking here 500W +. If you are running speed lights a tighter crop will be needed for a convincing effect.

 

thanks @doer20 for the link that didn't seem to work for me and thanks @anonzzz for the mirror

 

ND filter should only be used to bring camera shutter sync speed with the maximum or desired flash sync speed, anything more than that will be wasting image quality (iso) or flash power as those two will need to be used to compensate for excessive light loss in both flash and ambient light unless you want to play around with your aperture of course.

I agree with most of what you said except for point 2. You don't always want to set up your shutter to max sync speed since on location light is forever changing, sometimes ambient light may increase or decrease depending on the weather, clouds moving in and out etc. You usually want it to be slight below the maximum sync speed so that you have some headroom for adjusting ambient exposure without messing around with too many settings. The only time I may have set it at maximum will be probably at near sunset since the ambient light will most of the times go down as the shoot progresses and I am only shooting for one look (dramatic, not dramatic and high key). I guess one other thing is you may set it at maximum sync speed if you are trying to freeze motion too whilst keeping a high key look (flash freezing capability greatly reduced as ambient light exposure is increased as opposed to low ambient exposure).

 

Thanks @doer20 and @anonzzz

 

Mirror anyone?

 

@doer20 pls re upload thanks

 

I'm missing the exercise files and presets for this course. Mirror anyone?

 

The link in post #4 is updated.

https://p-v.club/threads/recreating...h-lightroom-to-mimic-the-sun.3975/#post-38113

 

@dofmaximus is there any video in this course?