Photography for Parents

Shooting with flash

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“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
– George Eastman" - 

Photography for Parents - Shooting with Flash

Next course starts on Monday 17 Feb 2025

Scared of Flash? Never got good results from it? Not sure how it works with your camera? Thinking it’s bound to be complicated and just for studio work? This is the course for you! We show you how to work your flash and your camera – on and off camera! - to get great, natural looking results. In this course you'll discover how to use flash not just to supplement light in dim spaces, but to use it creatively, to help you create images you wouldn't be able to capture with just natural light. 

KEY COURSE INFO:
  • Course type: Instructor-led
  • Course duration: 4 weeks
  • Course format: Online course with interactive live webinar classes, feedback on your learning and support group
what you learn:

You will learn how to make your flash work with your camera and how to control it so that it gives you beautiful, natural looking light

You will learn to work with the flash off camera - giving you the freedom to position your light wherever it will most suit your subject rather than relying on what you have with natural or indoor light

You will learn to play with flash to capture a variety of creative outcomes and apply it to lots of shooting situations - from learning to fake pretty window light to freezing motion with Flash

  •  understanding flash equipment
  •  learning to shoot with on-camera flash
  •  earning to shoot with off-camera flash
  • learning to bounce the light for natural looking results
  • using flash as a sole or supplementary light source
  • freezing movement with flash where the shutter speed wont allow it
 YES, I WANT TO JOIN! 

This is the course for you if :


  • You find yourself struggling with light especially in the darker autumn / winter months, and there never seems to be enough ISO or aperture to get you what you want
  • You can already use your camera in manual and want to add mastery of detachable flash to your skillset - so you can never worry about insufficient or poor light wherever you are, or whatever unknown space you go into
  • You want to be able to make flash images look natural rather than sporting that famous 'deer in the headlights look. A good flash image never 'looks' like a flash image
  • You want to learn how to capture creative images using a flash - such as freezing motion, creating dramatic shadows, or adding a splash of light to specific areas of the frame.
  • You want to add this versatile skill to your toolbox so you can adapt it to different shooting scenarios. ESPECIALLY if you're considering taking up photography professionally or semi professionally, this is an immensely useful skill to have. 

Next Shooting with Flash course starts on 17 Feb 2025 

  • 4 core course modules 
  • Support group
  • Weekly live webinar
  • Weekly practice assignment 
  • Feedback on your images
 YES, I WANT TO JOIN! 


Why shoot with flash in the first place? 

“Don’t use Flash – it will wash out your child”
“Flash will make your photos look horrible”
‘You can’t control flash – no control over what your photos will look like”

You may have heard those statements, maybe even uttered them yourself. And to a degree – they can be true – but only because, if you don’t know how to control and work any tool, it’s likely to give you terrible outcomes – remember how much poorer your photos were when you first started with your camera on full auto?

Here is how I see Flash, and what this course is about:

  • Flash lets me bring light where there would normally be not enough light available to take a well exposed photo – and let me tell you – in glorious British weather, that’s more often that I would like!
  • Flash lets me shape the light to suit my needs – I can make it moody or bright, I can even make it look like natural light ( yes really)
  • Flash lets me neutralise ugly light and make it look good ( anybody else cursed with ugly spotlight lights in their home? no? just me? )
  • Flash lets me be in control, especially in unknown venues and locations, spaces where I won’t get a chance at that second shot.
  • Flash helps me fill in shadows when shooting in very bright light – the goal is not to stop using natural light, but to help create a balanced image where natual light alone can't cut it

COURSE PREREQUISITES

YOUR SKILLS:

We recommend that you are comfortable in shooting in full manual mode. It's possible to use flash in priority modes of course, but you don't have full control of its strength and level.


YOUR EQUIPMENT:

You will need to have a detachable flash for your camera make. This could be the same brand as your camera or a compatible third party flash manufacturer. 

You will also need a way of triggering your flash OFF camera - in some cases, you may be able to do this directly from camera or via an additional remote trigger / controller. Click here to see our Flash buying guide below

Shooting with FLASH

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