Small Flash Photography. Techniques for Professional Digital Photographers (Amherst Media 2011).pdf

Bill Hurter’s

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FlaSh

PhotograPhy

Techniques for Professional

Digital Photographers

Amherst Media ®

publisher of photogrAphy books

About the Author

Bill Hurter started out in photography in 1972 in Washington, DC, where he was a news photographer. He even

covered the political scene—including the Watergate hearings. After graduating with a BA in literature from Ameri-

can University in 1972, he completed training at the Brooks Institute of Photography in 1975. Going on to work at

Petersen’s PhotoGraphic magazine, he held practically every job except art director. He has been the owner of his own

creative agency, shot stock, and worked assignments (including a year or so with the L.A. Dodgers). He has been di-

rectly involved in photography for the last thirty plus years and has seen the revolution in technology. In 1988, Bill was

awarded an honorary Master of Science degree from the Brooks Institute. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary Masters

of Fine Arts degree from Brooks. He has written close to forty instructional books for professional photographers and

is currently the editor of Rangeinder and AfterCapture magazines.

Front cover photograph by Sal Cincotta.

Back cover photograph by Bruce Dorn.

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table of Contents

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1. Small Flash Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

What to Look For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Angle of Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Bounce Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Guide Numbers (GN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Flash Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Minimum Recycle Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Minimum Number of Flashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Light Distribution Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Flash Exposure-Compensation Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Wireless Flash Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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2. Small Flash modiiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Size of the Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Softening the Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Small Flash Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Diffusers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Softboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Umbrellas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Beauty Dishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Ring Flash Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Directing the Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Cinefoil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Snoots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Spotlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Color Gels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Strobies Portrait Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Bounce-Flash Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Existing-Light Modiiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Flats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Gobos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Relectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Scrims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

3. taking the Flash of the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Flash Brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Wired Flash Triggering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Wireless Flash Triggering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Nikon’s Creative Lighting System (CLS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Supporting the Off-Camera Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

The Making of a Remarkable Wedding Photograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

4. lighting Fundamentals for Small Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

The Color of Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Custom White Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Flash Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

X-Sync Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Rear-Curtain Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

High-Speed Flash Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Relected Light Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Specular Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Diffused Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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