Hey everybody it's Greg ready to hear it in this video we're doing a photo challenge with Josh and it's natural light versus off camera flash. Plus we'll also be comparing the Canon 5D Mark IV versus the Nikon D850. For the series of shots I was using the Godox 80600 Pro with the Westcott 36 inch rapid box excel with two layers of diffusion. My camera was the Nikon D850 and I was using the 105 F1.4 lens. Now I took a test shot and then I was repositioning my modifier and I just verified it was in the place I wanted it. It was about 3 to 4 feet from the model and I was also using a tripod for this first set of shots and I was using the Hudman Loop to get a better look at my LCD screen because the sun was right behind our model. So I took a couple shots and this one I quite liked and what I did was I made the water a little more blue in Photoshop. So I did a little bit of Photoshop enhancing there and then we tried to vary up the shots a little bit so I asked her to remove her jacket and then I decided to move away from the tripod. I found the tripod a little restrictive so I started to move around a little bit more freely you'll see in a second. And then it was just a matter of going through some different poses and really trying to work the scene and really trying to get the exposure balanced in the background with the front exposure of the flash. That was the most challenging but I was shooting in high speed sync mode so I was able to shoot at shutter speeds up to 8000. So that made it a little bit easier to balance things and Josh had a bit of a harder time with his natural light shots because he wasn't able to do that. Here's another shot and I enhanced the water a little bit more in Photoshop. So Josh is up next with the Canon 5D Mark IV and natural light. Yeah so as you can see here I'm only using a reflector no light no nothing it is a Westcott photo basics 5 and 1. It's the most durable one I've used over the years of me shooting. As Craig mentioned earlier I am dealing with all of that sun over the tree line bouncing off the lake and even in the in-camera footage you're seeing. And a blowout of the light and I was dealing a lot with that. I didn't really do anything with the water temperature or anything like that I just kept it as is. I first experimented with a bit of white as the bounce light so that I didn't want to make a 2. Yellow and I also want to try with the goals shot right here. The attempt is to cover the foreground with too much yellow and so when I balance your skin tone back to regular the water will look a little bit more blue. So these are two different ways of doing it. I think I was kind of hacking it from the front and you were hacking from the back. Now these are the shots from the next section over. We moved down the shoreline a bit and again I was using the flash. Josh was going to be up next with the natural light. And the sun was going down it was about maybe an hour before sunset and then it was just a matter of getting that modifier in position and then going through a range of poses. So she started to go through a range of poses and it was just a matter of me really capturing that right expression and that background. So I was trying to go for an undistracting background and it's just the water you'll see in a shot coming up right here. I asked her to hold that pose once I saw her get one that I liked and I said just hold it and I took a couple shots and I really got the background the way I wanted it so you can see it's just the water in the background. And then I had a little lens flare and made the background a little more blue and there's another shot here in the same location. And I'm just sort of inching up and down that hill so I can get those trees out of the shot. You'll see here's another one here and that's just the water in the background and a little bit of reflection of the trees in the water in the background. And then I decided to do a couple of headshots so I just moved in a little closer. I was using the Nikon D850 with the 105 at F-14. It was a matter of just going through a couple of range of you know slightly turn your head this way turn it that way and it was just a matter of capturing that right expression and that right head tilt and I think I got a pretty good image here and the background was just dark and trees. So here I'm actually shooting with the sun below the tree line now so I'm not longer dealing with all that bright glare. I'm only dealing with the glare from the sky which is a lot less intense than the sun itself. And I wanted to go for more of that lazy hazy summer evening look. So a lot of my photos will be a lot more warm tone whereas I think Craig goes for a very water themed color tone. I guess you could say you know and you know both both are different directions you can take with the same scene so that just goes to show. You didn't bring your flash your flash ran out of batteries it's not a complete you know it's not a complete wash you know. And I think most of these I didn't even use a reflector because the light levels behind her and the light levels in front of her was so similar that. The shots look really good right out of camera anyways but because. The way I was shooting it kind of worked out because the 5d can pull more. Information from the highlights. Where is the nightline could pull more from the shadows right. All right in this segment we're going to go through a couple of images and we're going to talk about maybe our thought process. I'll start with one of my favorite ones and then we'll go to one of Josh's. We'll talk about some of the challenges shooting with natural light versus off camera flash and we'll talk about the different camera brands. Whether we notice the big difference or not in the two so I'm going to call this one up here. And this one I quite like I think it was a magical capture of just that right expression with her eyes with her mouth with her hands. And then it was just a matter of sort of toning that water like Josh said he was more going for a warmer look. I like to shoot cooler. I like images to be around 5200 Kelvin. And then I like to cool the background down even more than the subject. So I adjusted for the skin tone in capture one and then in Photoshop I brought in a little bit more blue into the background to get this type of image. And I had it easier than Josh. I was able to control my exposure in the background. Whereas Josh. Well it was more challenging for him to have to do that. So it was kind of unfair really this challenge. But let's look at one of Josh's images. We'll call that up now. So do you like the first set that you did more or the second set? You know what they honestly I like the second set more. It was easier to edit but the first ones definitely they had images there that I like too. Let's look at the second set then. This is my head. So here's a lazy, hazy summer look that I was going for. You know a lot of the warm tones and just the the highlights in her hair just catching off the golden glow of the sun. The sunset so to say. I must have to say I kind of regret not shooting with a wide angle lens because the clouds at that particular moment was really nice. But by the time I was done my seven minutes set and by the time Craig got there he had like all of a minute of nice sun then. I'm not nice sun but nice clouds. And they just they were gone. So I mean it didn't matter that much but you'll also notice there's a slight difference in the way we shoot too where while I do blur out my background I don't obscure as much of it out. That's a stylistic choice but for me I'm in the event photographer mode where I shoot weddings and I occasionally have these couples who spend a fortune on a really beautiful location only for the photographer to blur out the background. And let's be honest we this is a beautiful lake. This is absolutely amazing lake and I felt like we should capture some of that in the background too. You know. Yeah there's two approaches to that. I've had people say well it's a beautiful location why don't you show the background. And for me a portrait is about the person and that's my approach so I try to make the background very minimal but I also can understand Josh's opinion where if you're at a beautiful location show that. And so partly the reason why I pick nice locations is for the video because we're shooting wide angle for the video we're painting around. So I want the video to be pleasing for the viewers at home but as far as when it comes to the photos I really want it to be about the person. So it's a combination of why I picked those locations but don't show them in my images which is kind of weird but I kind of like to approach them. It depends on your clients really. I mean if your client is the model then you know focus on the obviously you're the person the human element whereas weddings is sometimes a location thing too right you know a beautiful chapel with a beautiful dress and a beautiful tux they should all just be in a beautiful photo together. And as far as the Nikon versus the Canon I didn't notice a huge difference. I think there's probably a noticeable maybe dynamic range with an Nikon but as far as when I look at these images even up close they're both great cameras so I don't think you know one of the other really that much. No I mean it's like the difference between Lamborghini and Ferrari. They're both really fast cars. These are both really good cameras. I would have thought there would have been a more noticeable difference between the two but I'm a little bit surprised and I like the bokeh in Josh's shot. If you found these tips helpful give us a thumbs up for this video and also let's hear your comments. What did you think of the natural light shots versus the flash shots? Did you see a difference between the Nikon and the Canon? Just let us know in the comments down below and if you're not already a subscriber just hit that subscribe button and also hit that bell notification. So if we go live Josh and I are planning a live stream pretty soon where we're going to talk about some of these shoots and we're going to answer your questions. So if you want to be part of that just make sure you click on that bell notification. And also for those of you who don't know Josh Josh is the videographer behind all the videos for the last four years and if you'd like to see Josh in more of these videos just let us know in the comments section below to say show more Josh less of you. I mean like I show up on camera more often not less close. No no yeah of course Josh more on camera because more of this type of stuff. But anyway thanks for watching this video and we'll see you in the next one. Hey everybody it's Greg right to here in this video we're doing a photo challenge with Josh and it's natural light versus off camera flash. It's your cue. Oh Canon versus. Oh we were starting from there. I'm sorry just come on you. Just jump cuts right. Jump cuts is your friend. Okay let's try it anyways. Let's try it over to it.