Using Small Flashes
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Professional photographer Joe McNally shares his insight on using hot shoe flashes offers tips on small, quick adjustments that can be made while on set.</span> This class is perfect for an intermediate who wants to learn quick tricks to use flash and adjust light.
Release Date: 2008-04-21
Lessons
Introduction
<p>What are hot shoe flashes and why to avoid the straight flash</p>
Duration: 2 mins 6 seconds
PreFlash
<p>Reading your flash's LCD and making your small flash large</p>
Duration: 2 mins 42 seconds
Logic of the Light
<p>Bouncing the flash off a white wall will create a more pleasing effect</p>
Duration: 1 mins 42 seconds
Don't Forget to Look Up
<p>Use the ceiling to bounce light onto the subject</p>
Duration: 1 mins 49 seconds
Master Flash
<p>Your on-camera flash can be used to control other off-camera flashes.</p>
Duration: 2 mins 10 seconds
Flash Menu
<p>Programming the on-camera master flash to direct remote flashes.</p>
Duration: 2 mins 7 seconds
Multiple Lights
<p>Beginning to use more than one flash to light the subject.</p>
Duration: 2 mins 15 seconds
Experiment With One Flash
<p>Program the master to use only the off-camera flash</p>
Duration: 2 mins 49 seconds
Embrace Your Mistakes
<p>Recover your image by making adjustments to the flash settings.</p>
Duration: 1 mins 57 seconds
Diffuse the Light
<p>Diffuse the light with a tri-grip reflector</p>
Duration: 2 mins 30 seconds
Sophisticated Light
<p>Create more elegant light with an overhead flash and a hand-held tri-grip</p>
Duration: 1 mins 36 seconds
Increase the Volume of Light
<p>Using a c-stand with a skylight panel to create a softbox effect</p>
Duration: 3 mins 17 seconds
Keep Adjusting
<p>Bouncing multiple lights off the wall</p>
Duration: 2 mins 51 seconds
Attachments
<p>Introducing a small softbox into the photo shoot</p>
Duration: 3 mins 9 seconds
Working Through Problems
<p>Diffusing the softbox even further with a hand-held reflector</p>
Duration: 1 mins 33 seconds
One Overhead Source
<p>This setup features two strobes firing through a panel from above the subject</p>
Duration: 1 mins 23 seconds
Floor Skip
<p>Bouncing a strobe off the floor as a fill light</p>
Duration: 2 mins 50 seconds
Using a Third Group
<p>Bringing in a third strobe to use as a backlight</p>
Duration: 4 mins 16 seconds
Enhancing the Light Even Further
<p>Bring in a little more glow with a reflector for the fill light</p>
Duration: 0 mins 56 seconds