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Advanced Photography: Flash

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Overview

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Go beyond the basics of flash. Learn about the behavior of light, how to simulate sunlight, how to leverage modifiers like umbrellas and softboxes, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Take your flash photography to the next level
  • Natural light vs. flash
  • What you need for this course
  • Why strobes instead of continuous light?
1. How to Think About Light
  • How to learn lighting
  • Light spread with a handheld flash
  • Light spread with a studio strobe
  • Falloff, part 1
  • Falloff, part 2
  • See like a light
  • Understand light bounce
2. The Aesthetics of Lighting
  • Learn lighting from existing photos
  • Two approaches to conceiving lighting
  • Decode lighting
3. How to Use a Flash Meter
  • Control the power of a studio strobe
  • Light meter basics
4. Bare Lights, Reflectors, and Flats
  • Bouncing bare flash
  • Simulate sunlight
  • Simulate sunlight with shadows
  • Bare strobes to eliminate background
5. Softboxes and Umbrellas
  • Diffusion defined
  • Umbrellas
  • Softboxes
6. Real-World Lighting
  • Simple beauty lighting, part 1
  • Simple beauty lighting, part 2
  • Calculate and use lighting ratios
  • Light for a scene: Paparazzi
  • Light for a scene: Writer's block
  • Light for a scene: A good day, part 1
  • Light for a scene: A good day, part 2
  • Flash duration
  • Freeze motion
7. Buy a Flash or Strobe
  • Questions to answer
  • What's the difference?
8. Shop for a Flash
  • Anatomy of a handheld flash
  • Compatibility and triggers
  • Flash power
  • Flash features
9. Shop for Studio Strobes
  • What is a studio strobe?
  • Strobes power
  • Specifics
  • Triggers
  • Features and price
  • Modifiers and speed rings
  • Low-power strobes
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Ben Long

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