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.
Overview
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?
- 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
- Learn lighting from existing photos
- Two approaches to conceiving lighting
- Decode lighting
- Control the power of a studio strobe
- Light meter basics
- Bouncing bare flash
- Simulate sunlight
- Simulate sunlight with shadows
- Bare strobes to eliminate background
- Diffusion defined
- Umbrellas
- Softboxes
- 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
- Questions to answer
- What's the difference?
- Anatomy of a handheld flash
- Compatibility and triggers
- Flash power
- Flash features
- What is a studio strobe?
- Strobes power
- Specifics
- Triggers
- Features and price
- Modifiers and speed rings
- Low-power strobes
- Next steps
Taught by
Ben Long
