Learn the concepts, tools, and techniques for lighting with flash—from improving built-in flash results to shooting with external and off-camera flash.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Learn the basics of flash photography
- What is good flash lighting? Part 1
- What is good flash lighting? Part 2
- Roles: The key to understanding lighting
- Key light
- Fill light
- Back light
- Types of flashes
- Anatomy of a flash
- Flash range
- Flash exposure
- Flash sync speed
- Automatic flash metering
- Manual flash metering
- Flash and shooting modes
- Built-in flash as fill light
- Fix backlight problems with fill flash
- Communicating with a handheld flash
- Set flash exposure manually
- Position a key light
- Set flash exposure with TTL
- Change light source size with diffusion
- Handheld flash as fill light
- Handheld flash as backlight
- Shoot with three flashes
- Why photos look different with a flash
- Control background brightness
- Control background color with gels
- Ratios
- Slow sync flash
- Bounce flash to create a key light
- Freeze motion
- Silhouette effect
- Deep depth of field
- High-speed sync
- What's next?
Taught by
Ben Long
