How to Use a Flash Frame in Professional Photography

Video Transcript

"Now when you get into the more professional cameras they often don't have a built in flash so this is the Cannon 5D and it's the first of their pro-level cameras that have that feature so you have to buy an external flash to go with that. I chose to purchase the Speed Light, it is about a four-hundred dollar flash and this can be mounted either directly on the camera or if you will be shooting a lot of weddings or portraits I highly recommend purchasing this particular one is called a Strobe-A-Frame but it is basically a bracket that will get your flash up and off of your camera. That is going to do a couple of things for you, it will reduce red-eye, it gives you a wider range and just a little bit more control because this frame has the ability to open and flip so you have to, you have to have a little allen wrench but you can flip the frame over so that you can actually change the entire position of where this is. And depending on how you have it mounted on there, you can really do some neat things but for weddings traditionally you just have to have the flash up and above the camera and that gives you great pictures with no red-eye. Finally an off camera way to mount it is just using a simple light stand with the right dealer hardware. You can buy this piece, I think it is about twenty, twenty-five dollars and it mounts directly onto your light stand and uh, and then it can hold a flash and an umbrella so you just put that on there and you can add your flash in, and here I will just get you the umbrella so now you have a pretty good professional looking setup where you can direct the flash into the umbrella and um, and it is pretty awesome."