flash-improve-your-lighting-techniques.html

title: FLASH: Improve your lighting techniques
date: 2009/11/17 11:01:00 -0800
tags: [{"name":"brighton","id":3772054},{"name":"event","id":3772053},{"name":"Learning","id":58669575},{"name":"photography","id":3773643}]
author: Jane Dallaway
alias: /flash-improve-your-lighting-techniques

Sunday will see me heading down to <a href="http://garage-studios.co.uk/">Garage Studios</a>, a local Brighton based photographic studio, to take a course entitled <a href="http://garage-studios.co.uk/courses/flash">FLASH: Improve your lighting techniques</a>.  I own a <a href="http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product-Archive/Flashes/4801/SB-800-AF-Speedlight-.html">Nikon SB-800 AF flash unit</a> but only know how to do the very basics with it and would like to know how to do more.<p />I thought it would be useful to record what I hope to gain from attending the course, so that I can see how well it does and I do, so:<ul><li>how to actually use my flash in anything other than the automatic mode</li><li>understand how to balance flash light against natural or alternative light sources to get the right exposure rather than having to correct in Lightroom</li><li>how to make use of reflectors</li><li>what difference is made by taking the flash off the camera</li></ul><br />I'm really looking forward to my day, I am a bit anxious that I'm a total newbie on all things flash, but I was reassured that at least part of the day will be spent going back to basics (well, not back for me obviously) so I hope to learn lots...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img class="posterous_download_image" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1557360679092549308-2160872532492900485?l=jane.dallaway.com%2Fphotography%2Fphotoblog%2Fphotoblog.html" height="1" alt="" width="1" /></div>