Especially in difficult lighting conditions, your camera can reach your limits and, despite the acceptable shutter speed and maximum open aperture, cannot deliver a satisfactory result. This can also occur in portrait photography, for example with the radiant midday sun. Large shadow areas and hard contrasts can be found here without suitable equipment.
A Flash can remedy the situation in such situations. This flash unit offers numerous creative options to control the light precisely. With accessories such as a softbox or a reflector, the clip flash can be further optimized in order to make the light soft or harder - as required. But let's start from the front: What is a clip flex flash and how can he help you?
Advantages of a plug -in flash
In contrast to an integrated flash, which is installed in the camera, an uplick like the HS Freeze Q1 or HS Freeze 1s score with higher performance, longer battery life and additional accessories. Another advantage: The clipboard can also be used externally and remotely, which enables flexible and precise light control.
Our pitch flashes also offer different modes that ensure particularly great flexibility. The speedlite mode triggers the flash over the camera's flash shoe. In the master mode, the clip-on flash acts as a radio remote trigger for other compatible flashes, whereby the integrated flash of the flash head can be activated or deactivated. In slave mode, lightning is controlled via radio triggers such as the professional radio release Mark II.
Steer light
In addition to the general flexibility, you can make the light softer through accessories such as the Parabol soft box for plug-in flashes. This softbox is compatible with most of the flashes of paddling and ensures even illumination - ideal for gently and professionally staging portraits or macro recordings. The simple assembly and the compact design also make you the perfect companion for on the go.
Reflectors are also an excellent way to control the light in a targeted manner. With a special silver coating, our reflector For particularly bright and dynamic illumination, ideal for powerful and creative shots.
Areas of application of a system flash
If you don't have a system flash yet, you should think about buying you to improve image quality. A clipper can be useful in many different areas, especially in portrait, wedding and event photography. Since there are often different lighting conditions in these areas, a system flash helps to optimally focus on the motif. The use of a system flash requires some practice, but with patience and joy of experimentation, good results can be achieved quickly.
Particularly popular: portrait photography
Portrait photography is one of the most common areas of application for system flashes. A combination of direct flash and diffuser, like one Softball diffuser, ensures soft and evenly distributed light. The diffuser creates a more harmonious lighting mood, especially for outdoor shootings, in which hard shadows and high contrasts occur. The lightning lifts the model from the surrounding area and offers a greater range than most integrated camera flashes. This is particularly helpful for moving motifs or in larger rooms. Since many cameras are delivered today without integrated flash, the use of a system flash is all the more important.
For action in high-speed photography
High-speed photography is an exciting field in which the clip flash can ensure sharp shots through precise, additional lighting. With this form of photography, moving objects are captured in the shortest possible time. With lightning settings such as the fast flash synchronization or the unleashed flash, special effects can also be created that open up new possibilities for the creativity of the photographer.
Architecture and real estate photography: Details and depth effects
A system flash also provides valuable services in architecture and real estate photography. Interior, which are often dark and shady, a flash can brighten the image significantly and ensure a better depth effect. Due to the precise orientation via Flashy Shadows can be minimized on a tripod and the exposure increases, which ensures clearer colors and less image noise. With a system flash, buildings or interiors, including the furnishings, can be staged professionally, which impresses potential buyers or tenants.
The little one perfectly staged
Also Macro photographer like to rely on a plug -in flash, like our HS Freeze 1S, and there are some reasons. Macro recordings often require high magnification, which means that less light falls on the motif. A system flash helps to avoid this underexposure and also ensures sharper images by reducing motion blur and shortening the shutter speed. As with portrait photography, an external light source can significantly improve the result.
Freeze breathtaking events for eternity
In addition to the targeted control of the light, an upright flash in event photography offers many creative options. In this way, dramatic effects can be achieved by steering the light through objects or varies with color foils. Short shutter speeds make it possible to capture special moments in a matter of seconds. In the case of outdoor wedding recordings, the flash can also generate filling light to minimize shadows. By using Color foils in blue, yellow or white the atmosphere of an event can be designed particularly colorful.
Creative freedom with further accessories
For photographers who like to experiment with lighting effects, there is a Accessories set with color foils for the HS Freeze Q1/1S to. This set makes it possible to play with different color effects and adapt the light depending on the mood. Combined with barndoors and a honeycomb attachment, creative and dramatic lighting situations can be designed.
Due to these diverse possibilities, the use of an open flash, combined with the appropriate accessories, opens up new dimensions in photography - from macro photography, in which soft, even light is required, to the dynamic event photography, in which frozen moments are held for eternity .