How To Take Night Portraits With Flash

In this photo I used a cheap 80 flash a 10 shoot-through umbrella and a 20 flash trigger.

How to take night portraits with flash. Ive included a few photos from my portrait sessions at night as well as a coupl. Check out how I like to photograph night portraits during this easy flash photography tutorial with my pr. With these tips youll be able to dazzle anyone who comes across your work.

Aim your flash at the subject and set it to low power such as 132 or 116. Here are 10 tips for taking portraits at night using off camera flash OCF. And if the subject is too dark turn the flash up.

In case youre new to shooting city portraits at night David Bergman has some easy tips for you in the video tutorial above for Adorama. Try the new Excire Foto application or use Excire Search 20 as a plugin with Lightroom Classic. This works great when youre shooting with a low ISO of 100 or 200 and at wide open apertures like.

I used my in-camera meter and LCD to get the look I wanted. Also when you need to fill in light say during sunset or compete with afternoon lighting using a flash can help you get better exposure from frame-to-frame during your sessions. The light was placed 5 feet to the left of the couple and I had the couple look into the light for a dramatic effect.

Excire Experience the best photo organizer for your photo library and discover your photos by color subject even people. Now if you look really closely you might be able to spot my wife in the photograph but there was very little ambient light falling on her in the chosen location so I knew that all of the light exposing the subjects would come from the off-camera flash. If you are looking to wow your photographic audience night portraits are the way to do it.

Take a unique and visually stunning perspective in the darkest hours. Flash photography at night can be fun and creative. This was shot on a Canon 5D Mark III at ISO 1250 125th of a second at f45.