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Making Light 1, 2
Everything You Need to Know about Off-Camera Flash
MAKING LIGHT is all about producing beautiful photographs with your off-camera flash. These practical techniques are specific to one remote flash so you can forget about all the fuss of using tons of equipment. Learn how to fill in harsh shadows, balance ambient light, rescue fading evening light, or substitute for a complete lack of light. With the perfect blend of theory and easy-to-understand exercises you’ll gain the insight you need to rock your triggers and modifiers for both Canon and Nikon flashes. Through 9 case studies you’ll see just how simple and powerful your off-camera flash can be.
MAKING LIGHT II takes an in-depth look at how to get the most from your off-camera flashes. Piet takes you beyond sync speed and softboxes and gets into the details on working with multiple flashes, modifiers, and triggering systems for both Canon and Nikon. This massive eBook also includes 10 case-studies and 4 interviews that provides you with the context necessary to put these insights into action; as well as, tips on what to put in your gear bag. These advanced techniques are the perfect follow-up to the first Making Light eBook and it is an inspired how-to eBook that masterfully explains the theory and concepts helping you focus on making beautiful photographs.
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@ Maureen: it’s simple statistics: between them, Nikon and Canon have about 80% of the DSLR business. That means that new and exciting accessories in the world of off camera flash first get made for these two brands, like we saw with the new Pocketwizard triggers, for example. However, if you have a Sony, all is not lost. First of all, some Sony DSLRs allow you to remotely trigger compatible Sony flashes very much the same way as I explain in Making Light 1 wrt Canon and Nikon. You can look up the information in your user manual to see if your camera and flash support this. If they do, then you can do almost all of the things I describe in the two eBooks.
If you want to use radio triggers (such as the old Pocketwizards Plus II or ‘simple’ Cactus triggers), you’ll need an adapter, though, as Sony, for reasons unknown to me, decided to put a smaller sized hotshoe on their camera than the standard that pretty much every camera manufacturer is using. Maybe they did so in order to sell you expensive adapters, such as this one: do a google search for FA-HS1AM Hotshoe adapter. I’ve heard that cheaper versions exist, but I cannot comment on their reliability.
If you want to use radio triggers like the Cactus ones, you’ll be limited to manual control on your flash, which means you could use any cheap manual flash.
If you want the TTL radio triggers like the new PocketWizard Control TL system or the Phottix Odin Trigger, then you’re out of luck because these are currently not available for Sony…
Hope this information helps you to get the most out of the eBooks!
Making Light 1 , 2
I use a Sony camera. Why are your tutorials targeted to Canon and Nikon users?