Great Lighting with Small Flashes: 40 Flash Workshops
Year: 2014
Author: Tilo Gockel
Publisher: Rocky Nook
ISBN: 978-1-4571-8877-0, 978-1-937538-46-0
English language
Format: ePub
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of Pages: 223
Make a big impression with small flashes! In this book, Tilo Gockel shows you how to make magic by mastering the use of light. You will learn how to use speedlights to create amazing photographs in any lighting situation. Tilo uses 40 lighting workshops to teach his methods for producing impressive flash shots in portrait, fashion, macro, food, still life, and high-speed photography.
The richly illustrated, easy-to-understand workshops are filled with recommendations and instructions for flash setups, detailed lighting diagrams, and tips and tricks for how to achieve the look of high-end studio shots using simple, accessible equipment, even in your own home. Also included is information on the settings that will help you master complex multi-flash situations, as well as tips on how to create cost-effective, self-built accessories.
Foreword by Strobist.com's David Hobby.
Author’s Foreword
Foreword by David Hobby
What Every Strobist Needs to Know
Flash Basics
Choosing Your Equipment: What’s in the Bag?
The Fun Starts Here! 40 Lighting Workshops
Workshops 1–13:Portrait and Fashion
1 Portraits for Business Professionals
2 That Sunny Feeling
3 Gobo Projections Using Flash
4 Wide-Aperture Look in Daylight
5 Duke, Nuke Them 1
6 Duke, Nuke Them 2
7 Colored Gels Rock!
8 Creating a Fire Effect with an Orange Filter
9 Key Shifting
10 Fashion Shoot in Hard Light
11 Nighttime Bokeh
12 Dancer in a Flurry of Flash
13 Underwater Shoot
Workshops 14–17:Macro with Flash
14 Using a Macro Rig
15 Extreme Macro Photography
16 Dewdrop Flowers
17 Coins in a Dark Field
Workshops 18–24:Still Life and Product Shots
18 Still Life with Bounce Flash
19 Shooting for eBay
20 Photos for Catalogs
21 Photographing Reflective Objects
22 Perfume Bottle in Translucent Backlight
23 Acoustic Guitar
24 Studio-Like Modeling Light
Workshops 25–35:Food Photos: The Most Important Ingredient is Light!
25 Basic Flash Setup for Food Photos
26 A Simple Off-Camera Flash Setup
27 A Complex Flash Setup for Food
28 Lighting Like Cannelle & Vanille
29 Simulating the Sun
30 Backlit Fruit
31 Glowing Pasta
32 Campari in a Bathtub
33 Using Smoke to Depict Aroma
34 Flavored Gins à la David Hobby
35 Chocolate
Workshops 36–40:High Speed Flash: How to Make the Invisible Visible
36 Milk and Chocolate Splash
37 Shooting Splashes in an Aquarium
38 Curaçao Wave
39 Kiwifruit Splash with a Cross-Beam Sensor
40 Dark Field Martini Splash
In Depth Tutorials
Spectra and Tricks with Color Filters
Don’t Shake It Up
Depth of Field and Bokeh
All About the Sync Speed
Optimum versus Critical Aperture
How to Use Mirror Lockup and Live View
Optimum Focus
The Pros and Cons of Using TTL Flash
RAW vs. JPEG
Appendix A:How to Calculate Photographic Exposures
Appendix B:Tools for Creating Lighting Diagrams
Appendix C:Additional Sources
Appendix D:Glossary
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