January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
15h 25m
English

Six Masks. Historic Japanese Noh masks, courtesy Noh master Jiichi Asami of Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. 580EX II flash unit on an off-camera shoe cord, shooting into a Westcott collapsible silver umbrella. Each mask was shot individually, then combined to form a single picture. EOS 5D, 1/60 sec at f/4, ISO 100, 70 mm.
This is an example of portable automatic E-TTL flash, using an off-camera flash unit with shoe cord.
KEY POINT
A dedicated flash unit is one that contains computerized electronics and that is designed uniquely for one particular camera maker’s products.
In the early years of electronic flash photography, synchronization ...
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