Chapter 9. Unleash Yourself
Enter the world of wireless flash photography—a world that offers an incredible amount of creative lighting control and flash-photography opportunities. It's a world in which traditionally tricky flash exposures are simplified. Simply put, wireless flash photography makes it more fun to take flash pictures, because it unleashes you from cables that tie your flash to your camera.
Wireless Tools Expand Your Capabilities
Wireless control of flashes and cameras open up new opportunities to create images that have previously been difficult or even impossible to capture.
With PocketWizard Radios, you can fire flashes off-camera without using cables, which allows you to place lights wherever you need them—instead of where you can get them.
Use single or multiple lights to illuminate a large room for architectural or wedding photography. Or, position a flash hundreds of feet away from your subject ... perhaps to light an animal emerging from its burrow as you take a picture with your long lens from a safe distance.
Trigger Your Camera Remotely, Too!
There are also many times when it would be convenient to control your camera without having to be behind the lens. Cable releases ...
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