On-Camera Flash: Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait

On-Camera Flash: Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography

Photographers are always looking for perfect light. Unfortunately, the quality of available light, and the situations in which photos are created, are rarely perfect. This is especially true when photographing weddings or portraits on location. So while finding beautiful existing light is every photographerâ€™s ideal, it isnâ€™t always possible.

This is the point at which photographers tend to reach for a portable, on-camera flash. Indeed, these intense light sources can prove invaluable, but only if you know how to use them effectively. In the hands of an inexperienced photographer, on-camera flash will produce images that look flat and lifelessÂ—images with harsh shadows, washed-out skin tones, cavernous black backgrounds, and other unappealing visual characteristics.

In this book, acclaimed wedding and portrait photographer Neil van Niekerk shows you how to avoid the pitfalls photographers new to speedlights often encounter so that you can produce professional images using on-camera flash. Youâ€™l learn to use simple accessories to manipulate the quality of light from your flash and how to improve a lighting scenario by enhancing rather than overwhelming the existing light. When the available light is too low and too uneven to be combined with flash, he shows you how to override it completely with flash and, with some thought and careful application of specialized techniques, still get results that look great.

On-camera flash is one of the most challenging light sources to master, but with the techniques in this book youâ€™ll learn to use it with confidence. For wedding and environmental portrait photographers who must work in ever-changing lighting scenarios, this can mean better images and better sales.
Country USA
Manufacturer Amherst Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-11-09
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Amherst Media
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-11-09
Format	Kindle eBook

On-Camera Flash: Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography

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