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Speedlight Photography Basics

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Overview

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Join Mike Fulton for a comprehensive course on speedlight photography — including how to use this versatile flash system to increase efficiency and expand your creative ability.

In this course, you’ll master all of the many buttons and features of speedlights. You’ll learn about each of your flash’s settings: manual, TTL, direct, bounce, off-camera, and more. You’ll explore the relationship between your camera and your flash, so you can move away from shooting in auto mode and toward capturing more nuanced, dynamic images. You’ll troubleshoot common flash issues and gain confidence manipulating the light from your speedlights to get exactly the look you want in your photographs. Mike will also cover the lighting choices that take an image from being just nice to look at to being highly marketable.

This speedlight photography course is the definitive experience for anyone ready to become an expert user of this powerful, adaptable lighting system.

Syllabus

  • Know your Speedlight: Nikon
  • Know your Speedlight: Canon
  • Buttons and Functions
  • Using the Flash in Auto Modes
  • Shoot: Slow Speed Sync
  • On Camera TTL and High Speed Sync
  • Manual Metering and Bounce Flash
  • Lighting Patterns
  • Going Wireless: Communication and Manual Ratios
  • Going Wireless: Zoom and Triggers
  • Speedlight Diffusers and Modifiers
  • Speedlight Diffusers and Modifiers Continued
  • Shoot: Snoots and Gels
  • Various Lighting Pattern Demos
  • Shoot: Full Light and Three Light
  • Shoot: Short and Broad Light
  • Shoot: Outdoor 2 Light Setups
  • Shoot: Outdoor - What Not to Do
  • Shoot: Outdoor- Manual and TTL
  • Shoot: First Dance 2 Flashs
  • Shoot: First Dance 2 Flashs Continued

Taught by

Mike Fulton

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