Overview
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Master the controls and creative options of your Canon speedlight—one of the most liberating photography tools you can buy. Learn on-camera and off-camera flash techniques.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- What you'll learn in this course
- Which Speedlites are covered and their differences
- Why use a Speedlite over a built-in flash?
- Comparing Speedlites to strobes
- Connecting a Speedlite to your camera
- Powering on your Speedlite and choosing the right batteries
- Choosing the right camera mode for your Speedlite
- Changing the Speedlite mode and brightness
- Speedlite menus and controls
- Understanding the ready light
- What are these other things in the box?
- How to control your Speedlite on your camera's LCD
- Choosing the right flash modes
- What is sync speed and how do I adjust it?
- When to use Manual mode and how to control it
- Creating soft light
- Creating hard light
- Using flash modifiers on the camera
- Controlling the color of light
- Changing between first-curtain, second-curtain, and high-speed sync modes
- Demonstration: Speedlite on the camera
- Demonstration: Using modifiers on the camera
- Demonstration: Using first-curtain, second-curtain, and high-speed sync
- How to find Commander mode and making a shortcut
- Changing the mode, channel, group, and power settings
- Using the ST-E2 transmitter
- Using the ST-E3-RT transmitter
- Activating wireless slave mode on Speedlites
- Line-of-sight discussion
- Positioning the flash off camera
- Balancing the color of your Speedlites
- How to choose off-camera flash modifiers
- Off-camera flash demo
- Slowing down
- Controlling power and extending battery life
- Cheating the line of sight on your flash
- Controlling ambient light
- Using Speedlites with third-party radio triggers
- Goodbye
