Speedlight vs Monolight on Location: Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey

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Battery powered flashes are great for shooting portraits on location. There's plenty to choose from and they vary between small speedlights and bigger, more powerful monolights. In theory more power means more light and that's usually a good thing for location portraits but can a speedlight be used to light location portraits like a monolight? That's the question Gavin Hoey puts to the test in this video.

Gavin sets each flash the challenge of being used as a simple fill flash, creating dramatic skies by "over powering" the ambient light and finally getting some beautiful shallow depth of field portraits using HSS (high speed sync) flash. The results might surprise you!

Products Used:


Flashpoint Xplor600 Flash
http://www.adorama.com/fplfx600bc.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Zoom Li-ion Speedlight
http://www.adorama.com/fplfsmzl2.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Glow ParaPop 38" Softbox
http://www.adorama.com/glsbsm38pp.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Flashpoint R2 Pro II Transmitter
https://www.adorama.com/fprrr2prooii.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Olympus E-M5 Mark3
https://www.adorama.com/iomem5m3b.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro
http://www.adorama.com/iom1240b.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Olympus M.Zuiko 7-14mm f/2.8 Pro
http://www.adorama.com/iom714mb.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Olympus M.Zuiko 25mm f/1.2
http://www.adorama.com/iom2512b.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Sekonic L-308X-U
https://www.adorama.com/sksk401305.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Production Equipment Used:

Olympus E-M1 Mark ii
http://www.adorama.com/iomem1m2.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Olympus M. Zuiko Digital 17mm f/1.8 Lens
https://www.adorama.com/iom1718mbk.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Olympus LS-P4 Audio Recorder
https://www.adorama.com/iomlsp4.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Sennheiser Wireless Lavalier Microphone System
https://www.adorama.com/sew112p4a1.html?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Speedlight%20vs%20Monolight%20on%20Location%3A%20Take%20and%20Make%20Great%20Photography%20with%20Gavin%20Hoey&utm_content=video

Model Charlotte Croucher
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/charlotte_ameliaax

Photos by Gavin Hoey
https://www.instagram.com/thegavinhoey

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