>>4531352
>flash
>not shooting in manual and re-metering/doing test shots for every change
wtf man

>>4531352
>tatoos
ruined

>>4531352
Get a light meter

>>4531352
There is no such thing as "direct flash portrait photography".
Your flash should be off to the side, slightly higher than the subject, tilted down towards the face.
If you're using TTL, you should do spot metering on the face.
But if you have the time and space, you can just dial in the background (without a flash) and then use the flash to light up the subject manually.
Also, get your subject further away from the wall (closer to you) and find a way to make to composition at least somewhat interesting.
Your background is way too bright here, mainly because you have placed the model directly against the wall.

>>4531365
>There is no such thing as "direct flash portrait photography".
Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Bruce Gilden and a few more.

>>4531352
>Hi, I heard this was a good place to get feedback and advice on my photography.
As you can see you've been mislead.

>>4531359
I’m not sure I understand you.

>>4531364
I’ll look into it, thanks!

>>4531365
I appreciate the tips on my composition. This is not the best photo I’ve ever taken.

Like the person below you said, I’m trying to imitate that style of photography, I’ve heard it called “direct flash” but whatever term you prefer.

I have a shoot coming up tomorrow so I will try to apply some of these tips to it.

>>4531370
Haha

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>>4531352
>>4531361

Fix it for ya.

Much improved.

>>4531365
gay opinion
>>4531352
serendipity is SOVL. Get some SOVL before getting any technical consistency on shit like flash -- inconsistencies will often give you the best lighting of your life

>>4531352
>photos you can smell

>>4531381
Based

>>4531369
All memesters who are famous for snapshitting

>>4531373
The "style" you are trying to emulate is shooting a disposable film camera.
A disposable film camera has an f11 plastic 30mm pancake lens and uses a manual flash which is intended to light up a completely darkened subject at a distance between 1 and 3 meters from the camera.
This you can easily set up with any dingy old camera with manual mode and a popup flash.
Go ham like the retard that you are.

>>4531401
T proof is 35/3.5

>>4531352
>get a consistent “look” with direct flash portrait photography?
Use the same settings and shoot at the same distance, easy.
>shutter priority
If you want consistency across images, regardless of flash or not, you should be in M. Why would you want your aperture or flash power changing?
>as lighting changes
Big point of using flash is that you control the lighting. Your flash should be overpowering ambient light changes.
>change my focal length
You should stick to the same one if you want to be consistent, but changing focal length itself does not change how flash relates to the subject and ambient lighting, focal length is basically just cropping your field of view. Your flash exposure would only change through distance, flash power, or aperture/iso.
>I have to adjust my flash, take a test shot, then adjust again, etc.
Yes, this is called learning. If you practice, you will eventually learn what settings to simply used based on your experience.
>What can I do to improve my process?
One practical thing to consider, when shooting manually with flash, is that shutter speed can be used to control for ambient exposure. If you drop from 1/200th to 1/100th, while keeping your flash power and aperture the same, the only thing that changes is the ambient light. To the flashed subject, 1/200th or 1/100th makes no practical difference. HSS compatible flash will give you more flexibility.
Another good thing to know is the inverse square law. If you move twice as far away, your flash will be giving a quarter of the light.

For reference, most point & shoot disposables are roughly around f9.5 to f11, 1/100 to 1/140, with a 22 to 32mm lens, with a single flash power. Most of the premium compacts are around 28mm to 35mm with much faster lenses.

>>4531381
10/10 thanks

>>4531352
I think it would help if you could post a bit more of your work and maybe examples of what you're trying to achieve, so we can understand better what consistant look you're trying to achieve

>>4531457
>post a bit more of your work
I fully agree. If I could better understand the nature of his work I could definitely provide better advice. Ideally more of the same model.

>>4531459
you know if you wanna see artsy pics of naked women you can just head to lomography and search "nude". I was being serious, a photo thread is a photo thread naked women or not.

>>4531352
>uncombed hair
>greasy face
>tattoos
>nose ring
>incredibly ugly and mismatched outfit
>weird pose

>>4531381
much better

>>4531381
would berry my face in her ass

>>4531463
She's just like my 2d waifu!

>>4531352
>thread asking for actual practical shooting advice
>only 3 out of 22 comments giving actual, practical advice

>>4531776
tattoos on women are just so bad that they easily can derail any thread on 4chan

>>4531352
drug addict.jpg
>>4531381
cute wife material.jpg

>>4531776
op needs practical advice on how to polish a turn lol

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>>4531428
This was extremely helpful advice. I did a shoot last night and I started in Manual, adjusted in for the background lighting I wanted, then took some test shots to dial my flash in and I’m very happy with the results. Will post when I finish editing.
>>4531457
>I think it would help if you could post a bit more of your work and maybe examples of what you're trying to achieve, so we can understand better what consistant look you're trying to achieve
The picture I just attached is one of the better photos I have ever taken I think. In terms of lighting, I like that the subject does not have deep shadows and you can see a bit of the shine from the flash on her (camera left side).

>>4531826
>I like that the subject does not have deep shadows and you can see a bit of the shine from the flash on her
Direct flash photography is a fine beast to balance. Go too hard and it's very obvious you blew your big bright load on the subject, which is great if that's what you want, but less is more when you're just trying to expose properly and fight against imperfect lighting.
I say this because it looks like you're actually doing the thing 95% of posters talk about doing instead, and maybe its worth experimenting with a more sutble fill flash.

>>4531381
>880x1168

Since is a flash related thread i l post here. I want to buy a good flash and use mainly for macro but not only.
Some anon in the macro thread recommended l me the dual macro flashes. But they are quite expensive and don t know if they are really usable or easy to use outside of macro.
Was thinking about the godox v860iii but now the v1 is almost same price. V480 was jus on sale for 120euro, and i ve seen on the used market (but new) the v1pro for almost same price as v860iii.
Was also considering a viltrox spark as is dirt cheap and small but don t know how good will be for macro or if it will cast shadows of my lenses as is quite low on the camera. I like to do a lot of focus bracketing so the flash need to have some juice.
The v1 and v1pro and the 860 all have the same power 76w only difference is round head vs rectangle and guide number.

>>4532136
76ws? I just purchased a 9600ws flash lol

>>4532136
Depends on what camera you're using.
If it's a Nikon with a popup that can be used as commander, the best option is probably an SB-700 or SB-910, but SB-600 and SB-800 are fine too (just a bit more finicky interface).

>>4532140
76w
>>4532143
Sony a6700

>>4532144
Then you can safely ignore my advice

>>4532144
Godox v1 has 76watt-seconds of flash energy.

>>4532146
Ok. 9600w ? I m not trying to blind people

>>4532149
Why not?

Why are people still making coomer slop?

>>4532245
Because heterosexuals enjoy women and women bodies
A nigger faggot like you can't understand

>>4532288
>coomer lashes out
All you know is to indulge in your perversions, you're just a faggot with straight sexuality

>>4532245
> Fully clothed woman is "coomer slop".
Go away, tranny, and let normal people enjoy their fully clothed women in peace.

>>4532319
>Fully clothed
Only the panty stands in the way of the clussy

>>4531352
you should be able do this style with a lightmeter and a flash bracket. sometimes with 3rd party flashes you get hiccups in the camera communication so you have to go manual and use the meter. i got sick of this and just bought a nikon flash for this application.

if this shot is yours you have the flash position solid, you don't want to see much shadow on the backdrop

>>4532288
>>4532319
>fully clothed
coomerism is a horrible addiction isn't it. Why does anyone care about your worthless coomer bait when there are petabytes of similar free material already made?

>>4532343
Coomerism.
Nigger you need to stop being a gay incel and understand that non homos enjoy seeing naked women. I don t care if there are 1 gorillion pics of naked women on the internet i m not going to stop being a heterosexual and become gay to not enjoy the naked body of a woman.
i fucked my wife a lot of times, i should stop fucking her, i should stop looking at her becouse she is coomer bait, there are 5 billion women on this planet with ass pussy and tits just like hers, maybe i should turn gay or trans because that a more niche area and there not so many pics of them naked on the internet. Fucking women is too mainstream for you?

>>4532476
>being straight means you MUST be a porn addict and you MUST make porn and lewds
pathetic

>>4532483
How am i a porn adict? Just because i like to see naked women?

>>4532493
>how am I a pot addict? Because I like to get baked every day and can only think of pot inbetween smoking sessions and lash out at people who point out my crippling illness?
This is you

>>4532503
A lot of assumptions from your side.

>>4531776
>thread asking for actual practical shooting advice
he's asking for flash photo 101 which could be solved in 1 (one) google search or one (1) ai chatbot request. Truth is he's using a pop-up flash so full frontal only and the only way to do full frontal popup is to let go, bracket flash comp and get SOVL

also his pic is ill framed, holds no story, no subtext, I could have worked crazy on these 80's party hall carpeting and curtains and the problem here isn't his flash which is perfectly fine no red eyes no shadows behind the girl etc

>>4531381
It's actually absurd the difference it makes

>>4532483
> NOO YOU CANNOT ENJOY MEDIA THAT PORTRAYS WOMEN IN APPEALING BUT ALSO RESPECTFUL WAY
> YOU ARE A COOMER
> COOMER
> YOU MUST WATCH DEGRADING PORN MADE BY JEWS
> WATCH PORN REEEEE
Daily reminder that trannies and faggots are the biggest mysooginists (and in general misanthropes) and the biggest degenerates out there and are actively harassing people in all sorts of media if they don't cater to their degenracy. Well, except furries. Furries are cool.

>>4532583
You have completely lost the plot. Why would I encourage you to watch porn when I am against being a coomer? Portraying a mentally ill woman in her underwear is not respectful btw. You wouldn't want your mom modelling like that.

>>4532506
They're all right. Nobody thinks you're a high artist celebrating the human form. You want to take pictures like that because you're driven by your libedo. Nothing else

>>4532515
>he's asking for flash photo 101 which could be solved in 1 (one) google search or one (1) ai chatbot request.
If it's so simple, you could've just answered instead of silly meta comments like this.
Did you forget to attach your example better photo?

>>4532527
based

>>4531381
Order Three: Masking the Absence of Reality
The third order is where the framework does its sharpest work. The sign now pretends to point at something that no longer exists. It is a representation of nothing, dressed as a representation of something. The everyday case is the weather app in a windowless office: bright yellow sun on screen, pouring rain outside, sunglasses packed on the basis of a sign that is masking the absence of the state it claims to describe.

Baudrillard’s Disneyland reading sits here too. The park is not the fantasy enclosure inside an otherwise authentic America; it is the fantasy enclosure that exists to certify the rest of America as not-a-fantasy. By overtly declaring itself imaginary, it performs the existence of a real outside by contrast. The same move generalises to digital twins: any system that publishes a contained “fantasy zone” (the training sim, the synthetic-data corpus) while presenting its surroundings as authentic is doing the same work. The labelled artifice is the alibi for the unlabelled artifice everywhere else.

after shooting with my film point and shoot i have developed this approach
set my camera at f16 to f11 depending on the distance to the subject 1-2m

set my flash power to around 1/4 (GN14 rated flash)

then mess with the shutter speed until the background looks good

honestly for that direct flash a film point and shoot just werks with no messing with it
and to recreate that in digital is just as above

>>4534592
(iso at 500)

>>4534592
im not even tryna insult you but this is the most retarded post I've ever seen

>>4534759
chuckled
but, it's just simple light calculations to mimic the way an old film point and shoot would work

>>4534592
>"point and shoot film camera"
>¿manually settings?
>"distance to the subject 1-2m" "mess with the shutter speed until the background looks good"
what the fuck?

>>4534853
correct, modern digital cameras don't have the algorithm of old point and shoots inside

an old point and shoot would select one shutter speed and open up the aperture dependig on the distance to the subject.
and you're stuck on one iso
so there is no manual anything

so you recreate it digitally with how im doing it
keeping iso, and flash power fixed
and simply gauging distance to set aperture
shutter speed to taste which is the luxury of manual flashes

my brain too big

>>4532483
>>4532503
>>4532597
>>4532600
Nobody faps watching these photos, retard, we're just hardcoded to appreciate the vision of a beautiful woman because of our reproduction instinct. You being a christcuck puritan trying to shame anybody appreciating feminine bodies doesn't make you right, just cringe and pathetic. Also kys. Also you're the weird guy here.
Also NTA.
>>4532583
Based TR\/THN\/KE

>>4536024
>coomer in denial

>>4532583
Rare tripless cANON post. How did we not see the signs?

>>4536113
Actually my tripless post is >>4536025
You really told on yourself when you accused me of being a furry and came up with a deluge of furry content. It's clear only a coomer could have that ready. Furries are an especially degraded form of the coomer.

>>4536120
>t. admitted to being a furry from /k/
Stop coping

>>4536121
Stop making shit up.
Where's my alleged admission of being a furfag from /k/?

>>4531352
Are you gonna post more photos of her or not?

>>4531826
why would you even use a flash in this situation

just turn her to face the light

>>4536968
based coomer

>>4536968
Also
Will op actually post tits or not? What he has produced so far has been an absolutely shameful display of “modesty” and an “appreciation” of the “feminine form”.
It’s total bullshit.
If you’re going to shoot porn at least have the balls to actually shoot porn.
It’s not “neat” just because they have the bits covered with some shitty ass clothes. Cover them with some of the foreground. Cover them with a semi natural pose.
Be fucking creative with your set and setting. The curtain is gay. If you’re gonna shoot port at least actually shoot the porn. Nobody is watching porn for the sake of the couch just like I’m not looking at your dumb pictures for the sake of the fucking cactus.
Jesus Christ it’s like you haven’t actually studied the medium at all and are just going out with a camera and some cheap prostitutes that gave you the best discount because they got to keep on their Marshall’s bikini or good will crop top. It’s fucking bullshit bro.
Do you want it to be art? Ok. That’s fine. Then study your fucking compositions and FUCKING APPLY THEM.
are you just shooting porn? THEN SHOOT THE FUCKING PORN!!

At this point with the pictures you have posted I genuinely cannot answer these two questions and that indicates a serious problem with your professional direction and artistic intention that you need to study before you even consider taking another photo.

>>4531352
> Specifically, I usually shoot in shutter priority and a static ISO depending on lighting.

In case of shooting something similar as in your pic, I personally would just set the camera on manual mode.

Assuming that
- There is only a single flash with some manual control on power
- no light meter
I would probably do something like this:

1) decide that I want as little as possible ambient light; set shutter speed to max flash sync speed (e.g 1/125)
2) decide that I'm not going for esp. shallow depth of field; set aperture to f5.6 - f8
3) Take test photos without any flashes and adjust ISO speed to see which ISO value(s) still keep ambient light out well enough.
4) If even the lowest ISO lets in too much ambient light, increase aperture f-value and accept that plan from step 2 must be compromised
5) Take test photo with flash on and make following adjustments until satisfied
6) Adjust flash power if image is over- or underexposed
7) Adjust ISO if adjustments in step 6 were not enough
8) Adjust aperture if adjustments in steps 6 and 7 were not enough, accept that plan from step 2 must be compromised

> I have been keeping my flash manual because I noticed TTL was very inconsistent with flash power and not every shot came out how I wanted.

In studio settings I always set flash power manually. This way I can be sure that regardless what metering mode my camera happens to be on and whether I point it to a shadow or a highlight the flash fires at a constant power.

> The issue I have is that as lighting changes and as I move around or change my focal length I have to adjust my flash, take a test shot, then adjust again, etc. until I have it dialed in to the “look” I am going for.

- Changing the distance between the subject and the light requires adjustments
- Moving around is not an issue unless it greatly changes the view
- If using a zoom lens, use such aperture value that stays constant over the focal range you use