The Flash Book
How to fall hopelessly in love with your flash, and finally start taking the type of images you bought it for in the first place
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Flash Book
How to fall hopelessly in love with your flash, and finally start taking the type of images you bought it for in the first place
About this book
Scott Kelby, the world's #1 best-selling photography technique books author, is here with a new concept in photography and flash books—one that's designed from the ground up to get you straight to whatever it is you need to do with a flash right now, get your answer fast, and get you back to shooting with your flash. Thanks to inexpensive flashes that are compatible with all major camera manufacturers (such as Yongnuo), owning and using a flash is now easily within reach for nearly all shooters, whether you're a hobbyist or aspriring professional. Once you own a flash, though, you'll have a lot of questions about how to get it to create the light you need—questions about camera and flash settings, questions about direction, quality, and quantity of light. And in addition to knowing how to use your flash, you need to know which modifiers and triggers you might need, and you need to learn use them quickly. That's why this book was created: to quickly get you to the technique, the setting, or exactly the right thing you need to do right now to improve your work. Here's how it works: When you need to know how to do a particular thing, you turn to the chapter where it would be found, find the thing you need to do (it's easy, each page covers just one single topic), and Scott tells you exactly how to do it just like he was sitting there beside you, using the same casual style as if he were telling a friend. That way, you get back to shooting fast. This isn't a book of theory, full of confusing jargon and complicated concepts. This is a book on which settings to use, and exactly how and when to use them. The whole book is written in Scott's plain-English, down-to-earth style, which makes the experience more like the two of you are out together on a shoot.
It's time to fall truly head-over-heels in love with your flash, so you can start creating the type of images with your flash that you've always dreamed of, and this is the book that can take you there.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Flash Controls and Settings: Ya gotta start somewhere, right?
- Chapter 2 Next Level Flash Stuff: It’s that stuff. At the next level
- Chapter 3 Camera Settings for Working with Flash: This part is way easier than you’d think
- Chapter 4 Using Flash for Portraits: How to make people look awesomer
- Chapter 5 Using Flash On Location: This is truly terrifying stuff, so maybe you should skip this
- Chapter 6 How to Light Backgrounds: Baby got back!
- Chapter 7 Using Flash at Weddings: Here comes the bright . . .
- Chapter 8 How to Mount Your Flash: That sounds bad, but you know what I mean
- Chapter 9 Flash Tricks: Getting your flash to beg, roll over, and fetch light
- Chapter 10 Flash Workflow: If you’ve got an indoor, outdoor, or wedding shoot, then here’s what to do!