May 2008
Beginner
297 pages
9h 14m
English
Content preview from Canon® EOS Digital Photography Photo Workshop
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Chapter 8. FLASH BASICS AND MORE
HOW ETTL II TECHNOLOGY WORKS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE
BUILT-IN FLASH TECHNIQUES
CANON'S SPEEDLITE LINEUP
OTHER FLASH EQUIPMENT
EXPLORING CANON SPEEDLITE FLASH CAPABILITIES
USING MULTIPLEWIRELESS SPEEDLITES
SHOOTING MACRO IMAGES WITH A FLASH
©Amy A. Timacheff
Flashes can be your best or worst friend, depending on the situation, ambient lighting, and what you know about how your flash operates. Many photographers opt to not use a flash if it's at all possible because natural light is softer and usually provides the best tonality and depth to an image. Yet a flash is necessary in many instances, and it's important to know how and when to use one; furthermore, there are many technological features as well as methods for using flashes to obtain the very best possible and most creative results (see 8-1), and to overcome some of their inherent drawbacks.
Historically, there have been many limitations of flash photography for which photographers have invented a wide variety of innovative gimmicks and rigs. However, today's flashes now integrate incredibly sophisticated features that render these homemade devices largely unnecessary. Canon offers a wide variety of flash innovations and options, ranging from the simple pop-up on-camera flash common, to many (but not all) dSLRs, to externally mounted Speedlite models. The more you know about how to use the Canon flash capabilities, the better your photos will be and the more confident you'll be in using them the ...
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