Outdoor Portraits Essentials: Natural Light Photography, Fill Flash & Diffusers

By admin | December 10, 2021 |

Outdoor Portraits Essentials: Natural Light Photography, Fill Flash & Diffusers

Learn how to take gorgeous outdoor portraits with any camera, whether you’re working with a model or your family. We’ll show you how to use natural light, how to add light from a flash or speedlight, and how to use an inexpensive diffuser to make soft, flattering light in any conditions. Tony shows you all the camera settings you need and Chelsea teaches you everything about posing. Want to try the flash bender from the video? Get in on Amazon http://help.tc/flashbender

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50 Comments

  1. MegaFLYBOY2 on December 10, 2021 at 9:20 pm

    At the, quick, initial view of the reversed ballcap, the term "douchey" quickly entered my mind! Until, of course, it was quickly pointed out to be germane to the shoot.
    A little warning would have been nice. Phew!
    Great vid, thanks!



  2. Glenda on December 10, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    Great rapid fire tips! 😊



  3. Rihan Abdul Razik on December 10, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    Love your channel!!



  4. Barzin Lotfabadi on December 10, 2021 at 9:23 pm

    Watching this in 2021 and still taking pointers, thank you guys for making this!



  5. Maternity Maternity on December 10, 2021 at 9:23 pm

    Chelsea is so beautiful



  6. Kristen Justine on December 10, 2021 at 9:25 pm

    thank you for this!



  7. Crystal Temple on December 10, 2021 at 9:30 pm

    This has do many great tips! Thank you both. πŸ™‚ Chelsea you are a beautiful model.



  8. srinu pani on December 10, 2021 at 9:30 pm

    Nice tips and tricks so cute u r also



  9. Jake Fotograffix on December 10, 2021 at 9:31 pm

    Hi which one I should choose? TTL or manual speedlight? What’s the difference?



  10. Brian on a mission on December 10, 2021 at 9:33 pm

    I did my first paid shoot outside recently and I totalled bombed πŸ™



  11. r2112 on December 10, 2021 at 9:36 pm

    Chelsea is thiccccccc yummy



  12. Aldo Garcia on December 10, 2021 at 9:36 pm

    What you explain about how to crop people in minute 4:15 should be in your book !! It took me like a week to find where I had seen it (which video or book).



  13. Por Moua on December 10, 2021 at 9:37 pm

    "Nobody looks good when they’re squinting"
    *David Puddy has entered the chat*



  14. Tony & Chelsea Northrup on December 10, 2021 at 9:39 pm

    ⚑Get the flash bender on Amazon http://help.tc/flashbender
    πŸ“ΈCanon 70-200 f/2.8 on Amazon http://help.tc/CanonPortrait



  15. CJolie TV on December 10, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    This is very helpful! Thank you!



  16. Helena Sullivan on December 10, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    This dude is giving off serious Billy Bob Thornton vibes. Great content though, thanks!



  17. BruiserFL on December 10, 2021 at 9:43 pm

    Great tips



  18. sathish kumar on December 10, 2021 at 9:44 pm

    I like photography anybody here how to wide light photography journey beginning learing



  19. Miss Lee on December 10, 2021 at 9:44 pm

    Thank u very helpful Chelsea is great



  20. Black Music Record Prod on December 10, 2021 at 9:45 pm

    @Tony&ChelseaNorthrup i love this video , cool , can you make other video how to settings a camera for outdoor portraits for us ?



  21. Richard Davis on December 10, 2021 at 9:46 pm

    Good video. Very helpful. Thanks.



  22. Sauce on December 10, 2021 at 9:50 pm

    I work for a small media company as a videographer/editor/web developer. On of our business neighbors comes waltzing into our office the other day asking if we do head shots. They want all their employees photographed for their website. My boss, the true salesman that he is, says, "Head shots? Yeah of course we do head shots." We have literally never offered this service to anyone.

    He comes to me an hour later, "You can do, like, portrait head shots, right? They are an environmental engineering firm so they want to take the pictures outside." It might sound silly but I really only focus on videography and don’t know a whole lot about taking pictures. They are similar yet very different. So here I am, watching a YouTube video to teach myself how to do this. It’s amazing that society even functions.



  23. Kilgor Trout on December 10, 2021 at 9:50 pm

    it was better without diffusor



  24. Vladimir Grabovica on December 10, 2021 at 9:52 pm

    Excellent



  25. Shahriar Robin on December 10, 2021 at 9:52 pm

    Great Tony



  26. Vara Creative on December 10, 2021 at 9:53 pm

    Very good video. Excellent work all round.



  27. Steve Cousins on December 10, 2021 at 9:53 pm

    Awesome tips and I must say Tony you are truly a very blessed man as Chelsea is gorgeous and also a very beautiful model. First saw her on one of your wildlife video shoots and thought she was just another photographer yet didn’t know till I subscribed she was your wife and you also have a beautiful child. Truly your a blessed man and love your videos as have always wanted to do wildlife and other photography and now that I took a early retirement I’m hoping to explore and get more into my dream.

    Thanks for the tips and looking forward to getting your book soon though I have Lightroom 5 and was going to move to 6 till Adobe went cloud as I have a IT background and not at all a cloud fan. So moved to a alternative Luminar 4 which I’m learning as well yet wonder if maybe some Lightroom book may prove helpful in learning as well. But will start with your main book first and may gear one as looking at the 90d as want to move up from T5 as final camera as lens are my next move and in the wildlife video I first saw Chelsea in I like her lens (can’t remember right now have to go back and view) but I’ve always wanted the 70-200 as my first lens though the f2.8 was a little out of budget for now and would have to go with f4 for now. Now with this video I see how portraits may even prove this to me one of my main photo lens all around. Thanks for the tips and looked forward to viewing more of Chelsea and you videos and website.



  28. Alexandria Perel on December 10, 2021 at 9:54 pm

    So for an outdoor shoot you really only need an on camera flash? And maybe a diffuser?



  29. Graham Smith on December 10, 2021 at 9:56 pm

    zoom with your feet



  30. Mauricio Chaar on December 10, 2021 at 9:57 pm

    My flash no rotate. Is fixed for front only. I make a zigzag bouncer in home with paperboard.



  31. Jeff Albritton on December 10, 2021 at 9:59 pm

    Why are you using 2/3 exposure comp to the right?



  32. PaweΕ‚ Przybylski on December 10, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    That was awsome!



  33. KIRK on December 10, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    There’s no way thise after shots are straight out of camera



  34. Moise Ambazimana on December 10, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    I love you guys



  35. Romie Miller on December 10, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    I agree with you about using zoom lenses. They also can vary the background compression, which is something most photographers don’t think about.



  36. Rihan Abdul Razik on December 10, 2021 at 10:02 pm

    Great video!!
    What is the camera strap you’re using here?
    Thnx for the help.



  37. Hurley Green on December 10, 2021 at 10:02 pm

    Good tips! Were you shooting in Manual Mode or APerture Priority?



  38. Geo on December 10, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    I love this….

    What am I watching?



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  40. mleczko on December 10, 2021 at 10:06 pm

    this is great. subscribed



  41. Mr K-verity on December 10, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    loll!! When you were still a grand learner..nice though.



  42. Steven Wilson on December 10, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    Thank you so much for this video. Great information. I’ve taken many photos of objects, landscapes, flowers, etc. but there’s a gap in my skillset with portraits and people. I really appreciate this information.



  43. Sawta on December 10, 2021 at 10:08 pm

    Anyone know of a reliable diffuser stand or mount for outdoor shoots? I don’t have anyone to hold one for me, and if I’m holding it with my right hand, I wouldn’t be able to do shutter release. I could do delayed shoot, and pull it up really quick, but that would obviously look and be very awkward. It would also slow things down quite a bit. I realize just about any mount is going to fall over in high winds, like in the video, but all of the options I’ve seen online so far look really cheap and geared towards studio shoots. Not even sure where to start, or what it would look like.



  44. Antonino Macaluso on December 10, 2021 at 10:08 pm

    Registrered todey….good



  45. dabomb7887 on December 10, 2021 at 10:08 pm

    Thank you guys, as a complete noob, I really appreciate this.



  46. Aruna Chugh on December 10, 2021 at 10:10 pm

    Thank you so much. very informative.πŸ™ Have a question here about shutter speed, why you are changing shutter speed with every photo? Thanks again.



  47. Sergio Vidal on December 10, 2021 at 10:10 pm

    Very very useful advice! I will use this for my outdoor shoots in Bali. Thanks guys



  48. Labatomi on December 10, 2021 at 10:11 pm

    Thanks for the video, it was informative as hell. It’s funny though, how the video looks like it was shot in 1990 lol.



  49. dabomb7887 on December 10, 2021 at 10:16 pm

    Such a great video! Beautiful family!



  50. Ezekiel Nduli on December 10, 2021 at 10:17 pm

    02:39

    I can’t believe Tony actually said that he likes Zooms 4 years ago.
    The man speaks for Primes today.