- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (10 April 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0470045280
- ISBN-13: 978-0470045282
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 141,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Photography is all about light. Canon Speedlites give you the next best thing to cumbersome studio lighting – wireless flash units that you can actually pack in your camera bag and take along. Tuck this full–color book in there, too. It will help you maximize the effectiveness of your Speedlites and help you create professional lighting effects in more than a dozen unique settings. With this Digital Field Guide you′ll:
- Learn all your Speedlite′s settings and how to use E–TTL metering.
- Experiment with bounce flash, fill flash, and using multiple flash units.
- Set up a portable wireless studio with backgrounds, umbrellas, and soft boxes.
- Use Speedlites to light professional–quality shots ranging from studio portraits to concerts to product photography.
- Explore exposure, lens choices, and lighting for outdoor portraits, still lifes, and much more.
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Shine the perfect light on every subject
Photography is all about light. Canon Speedlites give you the next best thing to cumbersome studio lighting — wireless flash units that you can actually pack in your camera bag and take along. Tuck this full–color book in there, too. It will help you maximize the effectiveness of your Speedlites and put information at your fingertips to help you create professional lighting effects in more than a dozen unique settings.
- Learn all your Speedlite′s settings and how to use E–TTL metering
Experiment with bounce flash, fill flash, and using multiple flash units
Set up a portable wireless studio with backgrounds, umbrellas, and soft boxes
Use Speedlites to light professional–quality shots ranging from studio portraits to concerts to product photography
Explore exposure, lens choices, and lighting for outdoor portraits, still lifes, and much more
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Flash photography was a frustrating mystery to me when I bought this book. Although it provides some basic, much needed information for the complete beginner, it contains a lot of off-subject items (posing your subjects and rules of composition for natural light photographs), but does not cover vital issues such as modelling flash light and gel filters.
This book predates the EX 580 mark II, although the differences between the old and new models aren't so huge.
Basic info is adequate and well-written: GN, wireless flash, basic techniques.
There are some convenient 'crib sheets' for standard flash situations: portraits, macro, event photography, although the amount of detail is necessarily meagre. The images used in the book are, frankly, average.
If you have a basic grounding in flash photography, you'd do better to visit dedicated websites.
This book predates the EX 580 mark II, although the differences between the old and new models aren't so huge.
Basic info is adequate and well-written: GN, wireless flash, basic techniques.
There are some convenient 'crib sheets' for standard flash situations: portraits, macro, event photography, although the amount of detail is necessarily meagre. The images used in the book are, frankly, average.
If you have a basic grounding in flash photography, you'd do better to visit dedicated websites.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm an experienced natural light photographer but not so happy in using flash beyond sticking it on auto and letting the camera/flash automatic settings do their work. I bought this book to learn more and found it distinctly lacking. This is great if you need something more than the instruction manual to tell you what each button is for and how to stick in on auto, but is very limited in teaching the practical application and more advanced uses of the canon speedlight system. I want to use my flash in manual more, I want to use it off camera, use multiple speedlights and learn more about bouncing and diffusion. Though this touches on those things its not in the depth I expected from a book dedicated to flash photography. Also as per the previous review, too many pages on posing etc. If I wanted that I'd buy a general photography book.
39 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've recently bought my first camera and the Canon Speedlite 580 EX to go with it. After hours on the internet I still had no idea how to use the flash. The instruction booklet is accurate, but very brief. Hence I was confused about how to set the flash up and when to use the various functions.
This book is very detailed and has lots of clear photos and instructions on how to use the flash. Furthermore it has real world advice on which features to use for various sorts of pictures.
As far as I know it is the only book of it's kind and essential for anyone using Canon's Speedlites for the first time. Professionals probably wouldn't get much from the book, but then it is aimed at amateurs and enthusiasts.
This book is very detailed and has lots of clear photos and instructions on how to use the flash. Furthermore it has real world advice on which features to use for various sorts of pictures.
As far as I know it is the only book of it's kind and essential for anyone using Canon's Speedlites for the first time. Professionals probably wouldn't get much from the book, but then it is aimed at amateurs and enthusiasts.
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I found this book rather vague and painful
This book in my opinion helped me very little with anything. Not because I am a master of flashes, but because it told me very little. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Matthew Palmer
Avoid
I bought this book in the hope that it would take me one step beyond the instruction manual that came with my EXII. I was wrong. Read more
Published 12 months ago by MissSAWright
It's ok only if you have never used a flashgun before!
Title sums it up really.
I bought this for a friend and it was not what I/we expected. However, if you've never used a flashgun before, then it will offer something to... Read more
I bought this for a friend and it was not what I/we expected. However, if you've never used a flashgun before, then it will offer something to... Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2010 by M. Rogers
Don't spend the money
buying two new Canon Speedlites i wanted to know how to use them effectively, how to link them, what the different settings are for, when they should be used, how to manage my... Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2010 by D. Maxwell
Rambling, erratic and hard to use as a reference
I was very disappointed by this book , expecting a well laid out guide to flash photography using the Canon flash units. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2010 by Mr. D. J. Matthews
Very Basic, unrelated topics.
I was very disappointed with this book. A lot of unrelated stuff to fill the pages. The guide that comes with the flash units is by far superior. A waste of money.
Published on 15 Sep 2009 by P. Kelly
Worth the money
Not a perfect book - it doesn't cover every model of the flash. But if you are like me and find the little included manuals hard to read and not offering enough pictures, then... Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2009 by M. Sear
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Published on 15 Jun 2009 by N. Wolfe
Speedlite Syatem
This book solved many of the mysteries of the speedlite 430EX, which I id not understand before. If I had read the book before I purchesed the flashgun I would have bought a 580EX
Published on 2 May 2009 by H. R. West
Excellent for relatively new photographer
This book is clear, concise and well written and gives a good overview of how to use Speedlites both individually and as a group. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2009 by R. Mcleod
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