In Part One, we talked about why flash is sometimes needed and the basics of how to use it. Now we will discuss bouncing & camera settings.
Why Bounce?
Pointing the flash directly at your subject is like shining a flashlight in their face - very unflattering and very uncomfortable. A nasty side effect is that you [...]
My nine-year-old daughter recently had a staring role in a school presentation. Of course I wanted to take family snapshots to remember the moment. So packed up my camera and went to her play … along with 700 other parents. I wasn’t expecting portrait quality shots. After all my five year-old was [...]
[Note: I use a Canon Speedlite 580EX for this lesson, but you can adapt these instructions for any flash.]
Learning to use a flash can be pretty overwhelming. When I picked up my first Speedlite, the manual looked like gibberish to me. A friend recommended I “just put it on ETTL.” I quickly learned that wasn’t [...]
