Portrait Photography tip (magazine shot emulation)

In this video professional photographer Dom Bower shares his tips and techniques for recreating an interesting portrait shot that he found in a magazine.

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Sahil says:

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Folko says:

Thanks for the vid dom! It’s good to see videos that I can try out myself. Keep up the good work.

Cheers

ManicEightBall says:

Great job. Imitating a photo you find sounds like a great way to learn.

LivingForLOL says:

She doesn’t happy… At all!!

Itchhhh says:

Thanks Kim and Dom 🙂

ZombieCarr says:

Pretty Kim and Great Job Dom

Satchel says:

Your post captures the issue peyftcelr!

Rome Wilkerson-Photography says:

Nice work Dom on the video and cute model

Hamza Khawaja says:

Kim’s actually looking better than that model

edgarbarradaskate says:

they probably added a little bit of “glow” to her face..
Cheers Dom!

guunther1 says:

love it dom… Kim great camera work .. i think its your signature look[all tht autoffocus stuff u do gr8 looks :)] Yea its that enthousiastic look that just radiates kim .. Its crackin me up lol.
I miss your little editting sarcasm [is sarcasm the correct term hmm dunno needs get my english up to parr again] dom… thts real comedy work you done b4.. gr8 stuff
funny and educational

Jak Cao says:

Great video, i was wondering how can you select 1/1500 second when using cls? Mine is maximum at 1/200. thanks

devonly2 says:

1/8000 with CLS is possible. the commander flash ie. the one in the camera or on the hotshoe flashes multiple times and the slave sees that. Plus it fires once to meature accurate flash. quiet impressive 🙂 Thats the way nikon does it anyways

Jak Cao says:

can you please teach me how to do that? I’m using shutter priority mode and it doesn’t allow to to select any higher that 1/200s.

What happened to your D700 Dom?

devonly2 says:

dom will teach you.
Your camera has to be a D90/D200/D300 or above. or have a SB-800/900 ontop to use Commander mode.

devonly2 says:

search Dom’s videos for Nikon CLS there he has a 3 part video about it.
Ohh and choose Auto FP in your camera menu under Flash Sync speed.

dombower says:

auto FP mode on the flashes and in the camera menue settings

Sokra81 says:

Very nice video, though looking at the original picture, it looks at least to me that the camera left flash is lower than at an 45 angle and possibly a bit closer to center. Also, the hairlight might be more to the side (likely gridded or snooted rather than through an umbrella), though it possibly only looks that way because the original model has blonde hair blonde.

Very nice reproduction though and a beautiful picture!

360mix says:

Excellent!! I love whn you show us comparisons like this.. cheers!

lopezae33 says:

kim looks bored as hell. good to see you making these kinds of videos again, thanks

webjamphotography says:

 ha ha

Thanks for another great vid Dom.

Lai829 says:

“delighted” 🙂 KIm is so adorable. great tip DOM thanks for sharing..

rahkshi007 says:

great video , can i ask what is the different if you set your sb800/sb900 from 18mm to 200mm ?

i liked the photos,but i thought you had way more light on kim’s face than the magazine shot.
thanks for the review,
can i shoot at 1/1500th with my sb600?
thanks

jimiclow says:

Great tutorial Dom! Can you please post a link for your softbox. Your BHphoto link is not working. Thanks.

dombower says:

thats me added a second link to the desription so clickon that and that will take you to the softbox i used

greenjelly01 says:

You mention using a fast shutter speed to keep the background dark – Is there an alternative way to achieve this in cheaper cameras with a slow flash sync speed and no fp sync option?

dombower says:

turn offf more lights, cover windows, use a smaller apperture, lower y our iso, use a Neutral density filter,  or just ditch the cheaper stuff and buy quality.

I suggest nikon

greenjelly01 says:

Thanks for the tips, I will try a combination of your suggestions. I do own a Nikon. It is sad that Nikon cripples its lower end D40/3000/5000 line by taking away some features in an otherwise excellent camera.

lepeanut says:

would turning off the TV help? lol

thanks for doing this – I learned a lot.

CardboardStories says:

Love your videos so much! Thanks for the help, its really great.
Not boring too!

Can you achieve the higher sync speed with a canon 550d, I think you were using a nikon but though I saw a canon strap on there! Anyway sweet photos!

jlouieg says:

just wondering, what aperture did you shoot at? 1.4?

obi5312 says:

I’m new to photography and have a D7000. So are you able to use a shutter speed of 1/1500 with flash? My camera can only go up to 1/250 or 1/350 max w/FP.

dombower says:

it can go up to 1/8000th if you have nikon speedlights

arubaforever says:

Dom, with flash you can never go to 1/8000. It’s 1/250 for D700 or FP mode 1/320 max. The D3 does 1/500.

dombower says:

the nikon speedlights can go to a hyper sync function where you can use any shutterspeed above the normal sync speed.

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