Freezing Water, Flash vs Continuous Light: Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey

[@mrjonathanhsieh]

I appreciate that he's showing his process. Sometimes videos just show the final result and I have no idea how they got to those settings.

[@khronokraze]

Another great video to educate (or remind us) how flash works in your examples.

[@EricLefebvrePhotography]

A towel, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

[@varunkamal91]

Eric Lefebvre what's wrong with uou?

[@kazuyar]

its a useful tip for galactic hitchhikers

[@mervyncausier6197]

Yes the towel is your best friend ! ......... some may say you went overboard on the sarcasm , some just didn't get the humour......😀

[@tricknee253]

Adorama is killing it with Gavin, Mark, Vanessa, and Seth. Keep up the great work.

[@IslandFilmMaker]

Hey Gavin, you're always so much fun to watch. You are a Master Photographer and a great teacher because you make it fun! I've been in the biz for 30 years, and you still are teaching cool new stuff. Adorama should be proud that you so these lessons for all of us! Cheers

[@latotayporota]

Just found out about Gavin's short vids....great tutorials, entertaining and without cheap jokes. Way to go Adorama and Gavin!

[@CamaroTime]

Very nice, informative video Gavin. I pretty much new the flashes would be better but was surprised about the constant light

[@gpgpainting]

Without a doubt, I find you to be one of the most innovative photographers I have found on KZbin. Your ideas ad vision is .. well .. unparallelled. I thank you for yet another outstanding video and tips.

[@hadrian5120]

Great inspirational video, many thanks. My attempt was very successful!

[@kevhildebrandt6585]

G'day Gavin, I'm only starting out in using my Canon 7D. I've only just come across your Vid's and want to say thanks so much for giving good, clean and precise information in subjects that are so useful. Hope to see you back again here and in the future being able to upload some pics and get good praise or criticism of what I'm doing right or wrong with taking my pics. Cheers, Kev

[@jomfastre109]

Splendid entertaining video. Love it!

[@RaymondHamby]

The only downside to your videos Gavin is that they don't come out fast enough, I'd love to see more videos from you sir. Awesome work!

[@kelseymatarese]

really fantastic video

[@teullet1]

Gavin is awesome and super fun to watch

[@paulinefollett3099]

An interesting experiment. Enjoyed watching the video.

[@mitchdask]

That's what i was looking for.As a rookie, this video helps me a lot to try something similar to this. Awesome! :D

[@JoeJacksonJr]

Always enjoyable to watch. Cheers!

[@followthetrawler]

Great experiment Gavin, Thanks!

[@lewisbarker1718]

I remember shooting with you using this exact setup at Digital Splash last year!

[@Geetikantha]

woow it ws amazing. It actually did cleared out lot of my Confusions. Thank you so much Gavin sir. Thanx Adorama tv

[@moment_visual]

missed you man, haven't watched your videos in a while

[@Chickboom34]

I always learn something. Thanks Gavin.

[@Tilbard]

i would love to see a tutorial vid about how you came to the final edit of the image. it's bloody awesome :)

[@86Ponzy]

Really nice video!!! Can I ask you how did you fix the light bulb? Thanks!

[@mariolavrador350]

Great video, as usual. Thanks a bunch!!

[@hrishijain11]

THIS IS MY FIRST COMMENT FOR ANY KZbinR, YOU ARE JUST "HATS OFF"

[@Blackriver69]

Gotta love a good Douglas Adams reference.

[@aljawad]

An excellent tutorial - as usual! Perhaps a funnel directly on top of the lamp should've been used to direct the water flow, to guarantee a uniform impact point exactly at the top of the lamp?

[@GavinHoey]

+aljawad Not a bad idea, although I also like the randomness factor... maybe I'll try both next time :)

[@mandurahchess]

I think, Gary, that if you put the diffusion panel half, even quarter of the distance from the subject that you would have done better with the continuous lighting. Maybe you could have had the light closer to the diffusion panel too.

[@itshuggo]

shouldn't you have turned off your extra lights when you were testing the flash too? or left the lights on while you used the continuous lights to make the test fair?

[@chimeralighting6844]

Amazing tips, thanks for the awesome video!

[@jeremy001]

WOW loved this. Must try!

[@manishagrawal417]

Hi, Great Video as always. Gavin you are just amazing!. I want to try that. Please tell how did you fix the bulb straight. Also, I want to learn more about flash duration. Do we have videos on that as well? I want to know these things: 1) Why is the flash duration very short on minimum power like 1/128? 2) How can I know/measure the flash duration of a studio strobe or a Speedlight with some digital instrument? 3) How do we find the power equivalent of a strobe to a Speedlight? for ex: on what power a Speedlight should be set to be equal to 1/2 power of a 400 ws strobe? Many thanks, Manish

[@oswaldogonzalez8038]

Love your videos, you have a lot of fun I can tell!!!thanks for inspiring us!!

[@TheMalni]

Fantastic experiment! Thanks for doing it :)

[@kachang90]

Love your tutorials Gavin!

[@fielding68]

Great tutorial. Thank you.

[@prestonlhouse]

Great stuff Gavin!

[@nguyenluongtruc2458]

The Flashpoint R1 Flashpoint can controls many receivers, but have to buy how many receivers? One more light receiver? Thank!

[@rizqisyam1769]

Thanks Gavin, you're very entertaining

[@gonemadfar3]

Awesome as always! TY TY

[@samaribrahim8331]

a great job thank you , i have canon 1100d and soft box 1 flosent

[@OoBlAd3oO]

Does the water have any other substance? I've tried with pure water and it splashes a lot, so freeze water doesn't look that nice :S thank you!

[@qqueuenstein5616]

Perfect, and exactly what I needed.

[@paulhancock3791]

I'm not sure I understood this correctly because you said the idea was to only use one source of light, however, this wasn't the case for the flash segment of the experiment. If the studio lights were on for the continuous light section also - would this not have been a way to increase shutter speed, negating under exposure? I'm not sure if I've missed something, as I am an almost complete newbie at this! Loving the videos though..I can see flashes and I are gonna be good friends!

[@jaimeduncan6167]

Not likely. F16 and 1/200 sync ISO 100 is probably black, depending on the intensity of the lights. By the way, if ambient is creeping out, it will not help the flash froze the water, but hurt them. That way flash is even better. If you need I can elavorate why. Best regards,

[@rodrigofotografo_5481]

Goooooood. Thanks

[@MarioGranger]

gavin,i would like to know if streaklight flash could work for boudoir and nude photography,thank you

[@realfriendaab]

Thank you very much .. I need your help: how to freeze a "very clear real rain droplets" fall in outdoor

[@leecason9468]

What flash could I do this with (cheapest that works) that works with the Panasonic g7?

[@geko9425]

Love this guy

[@GreyBlackD]

Is FLASHPOINT STREAKLIGHT 360 compatible with SAMSUNG NX1? Can someone please let me know before I buy one?

[@chazM6116]

What is the guide number for the two flashes ?

[@ErictheHalf_bee]

Thank you for the Ford Prefect reference. Mine's upstairs.

[@heidiannemorris]

Lol 😁 great clip Gavin, you seemed really pleased with your subscribe light 💡 💡 💙 excellent stuff!

[@franciscobarrios9656]

What type of background is that? What type of paper?

[@manish4777]

hi can u please tell me what the temp of ur continuous lighting? 2700 k or 3000k

[@simongentry]

thanks again Gavin!

[@NathanielWalters]

So for continues lighting you turn your house lights off? but why not on the flash too? Also surly if the lumin value is the same hitting the bulb surly you would get the same exposure between flash and continues.

[@jaimeduncan6167]

Not turning the studio lights out will not help the flash. It will hurt it. If fact if the ambient lights were bright enough you will get motion blur. The shutter of the camera (probably are something around 1/200) is not freezing the action but the short flash duration. If the camera continues to capture light after the flash stop giving it you will get traces. At f16, iso 100 and 1/200 it;s likely that the camera will produce a black image, even with the video lights.

[@watussix1973]

ty so much Gavin u rockn

[@DarkEvilPoet]

What sort of video lights do you own?

[@PCVARGAS]

Great Job !

[@johne2311]

Great video, hopefully we can look forward to more 15 minute photo challenges?

[@pettypoh]

great video tutorial, very helpful =)

[@edieputu]

Gavin is the best !

[@zhucloud6340]

amazing idea

[@deadheadsg]

Pretty cool!

[@tekkennerdable]

Very intresting videos keep it up....and i have to mention that inside of the light bulb at 10.47 looks like a ...well..haha not going to write it😉

[@MrFaust1985]

Good episode. More like that! :)

[@joice1999]

I did this but the water is not in sharp focus can someone hel0

[@drewsentillas8204]

Why are you using a colored water?

[@xn_edits2779]

4:40 How does making flash power from 1/16 to 1/32 make the water splash less blurry? I might have understood flash wrongly for a long time. I thought these number is only for Flash brightness (power).

[@dinsy512]

It's because most flash units reduce their power by flashing for a shorter duration, which will freeze fast motion better than higher power settings.

[@kubectlgetpo]

What dinsy512 said plus the fact that high speed sync is off.

[@gse2062]

Is a flash really that powerful, that his continious videolight could not compare with it ? Does somby know the different lumen of the light sources in the video?

[@geko9425]

gse2062. Continuous light manufacturers are struggling for years to have an comparable light output to flashes. Nobody cares in photography for Lumen, its all about the stops. Comparing the flashpoint and the video light, both shot at f16: The flash has overall one stop more light (that means double light output) at the lowest power than the Video light at 1800W power (for tungsten lights or 420W for fluorescent lights). That means that the flash has a power of around 3600W at the lowest setting and around 460 000W at highest setting (if I count correctly).

[@daviddaniel9982]

Hello Gavin, would a studio flash that puts out 1/2000 second flash duration at full power work just as well to freeze the water and droplets?

[@GavinHoey]

It should do OK at 1/2000th sec as long as the water splash isn't too fast moving

[@daviddaniel9982]

Love your work

[@daviddaniel9982]

Gavin Hoey Thanks Gavin.

[@AndreLindo]

I noticed the water is purple... Why?

[@boyunwang7761]

很喜欢

[@Diy-fever]

yeeey, Gavin Hoey episode :)

[@Kylejamesmcgraw]

That's amazing 😊

[@healthysleep8508]

easy to use! thank you for showing this! :))

[@maximilianaisenbrey6267]

he is the bestest!

[@Owaisphotos]

hi Sir, thanks alot for sharing amazing tips with us. i need to know what is that blue thing holding blub on tile ? Regards

[@dermeuren]

think it`s plasticine.

[@NamHaVblog]

i love it

[@juliosanchez6677]

No I haven't Gavin (Great videos)

[@anims2000]

What type of certain do you use in front of the speedlite?

[@GavinHoey]

It's a roll of tracing paper

[@WelshPhotographer]

Gavin, can I ask how did you secure the lightbulb to the tile? Thanks :)

[@stevesoosay2249]

Plasticine. At least that was what i used to try this out. But i failed miserably... I don't have a flash and my torchlight isn't bright enough :/

[@Maanroma]

Why does the water have a blue tone? is it the light, the water or the blue material holding the bulb that gives the stream a blue color?

[@InsightfulImagery]

Marcelo Rojas maybe color cast from Blue bottom in pool

[@Maanroma]

Thank you, it's a very subtle effect, but looks awesome.

[@Halartalpur]

there is a mirror as well. But, most probably clay holding the bulb.

[@CharliesTheName]

You see the water in the bottle, right? It almost has the colour of Meths. It's more a purple colour. But looks blue when thinned.

[@Rania-vh7wg]

I need a shiny black table like yours pft

[@MrTendentious]

42

[@vabriga1]

Thanks Gavin,... nothing else to say

[@micha0001]

Towel day is may, the 25th

[@faizinaeem]

xcellent !!!

U r the best 😁

[@markjalessian]

Know where your towel is... Hats off to Douglas Adams.

[@batworker]

Eric, you got there before me 😀

[@drGzus]

interesante

[@Cobalt-Jester]

It's pretty obvious the flash would win in your test because your flash lights are far brighter than the static lights. For a true comparison you need the output of both kinds of lights to be the same.

[@naveenkumargv8986]

Gavin you are awesome about photography i have a small advice that is Your very quick and speed so plzz say slowly by saying slowly we can understand some what better

[@ipadize]

didnt knew the weaker the flash the shorter the duration is. I always thought it would be more powerful

[@giuseppenuzzaci7335]

Gav your are not on FF, diffraction comes to f/9 on mft

[@alaeh7506]

Ur kidding me! Lowest light to freeze photograph???

[@CastleIslandPhoto]

Gavin Hoey: Hoopy frood.