Testing out the Neewer Z150 flash as a Professional Photographer

Welcome everyone and we’re going to look at this little flashlight here that we’ve got here. So, this is a uh newer Z150 mini flash. Now, I don’t really like flash that is direct that on the camera. I’ve always said that. But sometimes you have to eat humble pie and there are certain times when things like that are really useful. So let’s have a quick look at this little flash. Comes with a little USB cable to charge. It and that’s the beauty of this. Now, I’ve looked at these little direct flashes before, and there’ll be one up here somewhere for doing macro photography, and I still like it for that in all fairness. But this is even more compact, and it’s got the added advantage, the batteries built in as well. And we’ve got a USB port on the side there, if you can see that. So, that we can just charge into that. We’ve got a single pin for triggering. So, it’s not TTL or anything else like that. We can remote trigger as well in terms of the infrared system that the flashes use into that. So, that’s quite nice. We’ve got full power all the way down to 164th power, which is nice as well for dropping that down. And does it say what wattage this is? 20 watt. So, you know, be interesting to see what this is like. We have got a little port on the side there as well for just triggering into that. But the thing that I really like about this is just the sheer form factor of it and what it that’s just Yeah. Love it. I love it for that. Now, it’s becoming very trendy to have that direct flash shot. I don’t particularly like it because the reason I don’t like it is because it removes the depth. I like to create my images and I like to have that extra bit of depth into everything. Whereas, if we’re just flattening everything with pure bright white, then you’re going to lose the depth and the contour onto that. But there are use cases for it. And the use cases that I can think of besides the obvious. So we’ve got like event photography is one where direct ham flash is fine. Paparazzi is one if you’re into that. I’m not. But there are use cases. So if you have got a camera without a flash and you want to use one and you just want to take a really good picture, that’s going to help you. Now, admittedly, if that is you, you probably would want one with TTL. So that you can just let the camera and the flash take control of that. So, I’m going to take this out and I’m going to test this and we’re just going to take it outdoors and do a little bit of a shoot. So, let’s go and have a little look and see what results we get and how good this actually is. Model today is Megan. She’s agreed to just do a couple of photos for us so that we can just test this flash, which is great. So, I’m going to expose for the ambient light around here without the flash on just to see what we’re getting. it’s quite a nice little scene here. Perfect. Let’s just take that shot. And as you can see, Megan here is quite dark in terms of there’s no light onto her or anything else. And it’s yeah, I suppose at a pinch you’d class that as okay, but let’s turn the flash on and see what we get out of this. Now, that adds an extra dimension to the image. It really makes it pop. It’s really, really nice and it’s quite a funky style of image and it’s one that is capturing everyone at the moment. It’s in its phase. So, you know, if this is you, go and do it. It’s great, you know, go and have a little play. So, I would keep this in my little camera bag. And the reason I’m going to keep it in there is you never want a dull photo like some of the ones we saw earlier. And this is going to stop that. It’s just going to make it just take it to that level up there. So, from a little flash point of view that you something you can just take around with you, this is ideal. It really is. And the fact it’s just got one center pin just means that as long as your camera’s got the center pin onto there and oops that has there you can see onto there it’s just got one center pin. It’s got a couple others but doesn’t matter. That’s for information. So as long as you’ve got a center pin onto there it’s going to trigger this when it fires. And yes you do have to choose what you’re doing but it’s only 20 watt. So, at the end of the day, it’s not going to light a massive scene for you. It’s going to be used as a fill light just to take the edge off and make your people pop like we’ve just seen. So, yeah, I think this is something that’s for the price as well, which is phenomenally cheap. go and check it out. Links down below for it. Hope you like that.