#704 Shoe Mount Flash Techniques starting Saturday February 1, 2025 10:00 am – 12:00 noon at ProCam (First Saturday Lecture Series)

Whether we know it as a speed light or a strobe, the small battery powered flash that sits upon the top of your camera is one of the most useful, and at the same time most frustrating tools in the photographers toolbox  This two-hour workshop will help you tame the speed light, enabling its’ use on and off the camera.  You will learn to bounce it creatively, modify its output with domes, diffusers and mini soft-boxes. Learn about dragging the shutter and rear curtain/second curtain flash techniques.  Combine the speed light with ambient light for realistic looking lighting.  Filter your flash to match ambient light so you never have orange or fluorescent green backgrounds again. We will briefly discuss how to fire several flashes at the same time just like with studio lighting.  Whether you shoot Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Pentax Fuji or Sony, by the end of the morning, you will have joined the ranks of the strobist. This program will mostly lecture and demonstration. In two hours we will not have time for everyone to have a hands-on experience.