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Understanding Flash Photography: How to Shoot Great Photographs Using Electronic Flash, by Bryan Peterson
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About the Author
Bryan Peterson, a professional photographer, is the author of "Understanding Exposure, Beyond Portraiture, Learning to See Creatively," and "Understanding Digital Photography." A well-known instructor, he is the founder of the online school The Perfect Picture School of Photography (www.ppsop.com). He lives in Chicago.
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Product details
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Amphoto Books; Original edition (August 30, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780817439569
ISBN-13: 978-0817439569
ASIN: 0817439560
Product Dimensions:
8.6 x 0.4 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
145 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#223,802 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
When I first started getting into photography, I bought Bryan Peterson's most famous book, Understanding Exposure, and found that while I learned that some of the information in it wasn't the best, overall it really helped me when I was starting out.So, when I started to really get into flash photography, I tried this book also written by Bryan Peterson. Big mistake. Unlike Understanding Exposure, this one does not give good information at all. In fact, balancing flash with ambient, which I feel is the single most important aspect when learning flash, is not touched on at all!! Likewise, he says not to use gels. I'm sorry, but my flash is not the same color temperature as tungsten or florescent bulbs, so color correcting gels are needed, at minimum. This is without getting into the other uses of gels.I am also not a fan of Peterson completely shunning ETTL and other forms of automatic flash. Yes, in a studio setting it is best to shoot manual for best results, we get that. However, when you're on the go and are constantly moving around while taking shots using flash, ETTL comes in handy IF you know how to use it properly. Sadly, the book totally misses the mark here in what could have been a wealth of information.As you probably have heard, a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, in this book, the photos are often poor and it appears that most if not all of them are shot with flashes with no modifiers of any kind on them. This is yet another area of flash photography this book seems to totally miss the mark on.In conclusion, I was extremely disappointed with this book. Thankfully, there are other books and resources online that can help a beginning strobist.
Background (read: bias): Shoot landscapes & macro, and mostly outdoors, but in the early stages of learning flash photography.More than anything, it put a burning desire to go out & shoot, so I can see what works. Though the author didn't mention his Exposure Solutions book, this book gave me the urge to buy it ... and it was more interesting than this one. Definitely a useful book for outdoor flash user.Finally understand 'Rear Curtain Sync', and not only am I not intimidated by flash usage, but avoid that crutch called TTL flash. The author repeatedly drives home using manual over TTL flash.Tempted to take a star off for the author's instance of chimping. Chimping bad, using a light meter good.
While apparently geared towards digital technology, it really feels like a book about film photography with digital as an afterthought.Fortunately, that is a small flaw in an otherwise educating book on flash. First, the concepts here don't pertain a whole lot to the camera anyway and the concepts of exposure and flash settings are the same no matter what camera you use. The bigger problem comes with regard to manual flash and the behaviors observed on today's cameras. Today's flashes don't necessarily have all the manual behaviors this book talks about. In today's automated world, the manual modes on a flash still assume the user is dumb and don't give you nearly the flexibility that the author assumes you'll have here.This really isn't a flaw with the book as it is a flaw with the companies building our flashes and cameras. Unfortunately, I feel that the author should account for that to some extent.I do love that the book at least goes over the concepts very clearly. The focus is on using your flash in manual mode, and that is useful even if it is difficult to implement with your own flash. It took me three days of reading my flash's manual and internet forums to get to a point where I could make the book work for me (again a flaw of my flash and its manual). Once I got to that point, I find that everything in this book is spot on. The concepts are useful. I especially like the discussion on essentially removing the ambient light from your photos.I do question a little bit of the books organization. The discussion on power and guide numbers would have simplified the challenges I faced at the beginning if they would have been placed at the beginning of the book. The author calls the concepts advanced, but I think that Guide Numbers are essential to understand flash from the start.Last, going back to digital vs. film. In the limited discussion on automatic flash settings, the author discusses TTL, which really doesn't exist anymore as the author describes. I don't think it is a big deal as the current iteration on TTL tends to work well enough as described in digital, but it does have its limits. The author does acknowledge that todays dSLRs have better capability in low light and gives examples of when flash shouldn't be used. As a user who tended to be scared of flash, I was aware of these abilities, but it can be just as easy for many users to use a flash for everything. I can't believe how often I see flashes at baseball games. The author does a good job of also showing how a flash can be used in situations where it may not be technically necessary but can hugely improve a photo.The other item I question is the emphasis on items such as gels to color flash. My intuition is that there is value in the discussions, but the use isn't as necessary as it was during the film era. For one, digital editing allows us to shift the color of our images. Unchanged flash in combination with photo editing seems like it offers the most flexibility.Ultimately, I give this book 4 stars because it feels like it could use just a bit more updating for its time (a book in 2011 needs a bit more digital emphasis). Never-the-less as a reference on Flash photography, it is a great starting point. As in any book on photography and in any learning of techniques, I suggest supplementing it with internet forums, blogs, etc. I also suggest reading up on your own camera's flash as well as possible.Last, I wouldn't hesitate in buying an old flash (with care to ensure compatibility with your camera and its electric circuits). I picked up an old Pentax flash for my Pentax camera and found the concepts and use a lot easier to follow. It doesn't have to be the most powerful flash, but it will help to understand the concepts so that the use of your primary flash is much easier.Have fun... This book has made flash photography a joy for me. Before I always felt it was a chore. That is worth the price alone.
Very informative book with many details. I personally don't like the professional approach of Brian. As many photographers he prefers to set the ISO to 200 and flash to a manual mode. I actually buy those expensive cameras or flashes to use them as advertised. Use High ISO and TTL flash per example. I know I can switch to manually controlled settings, use sunny rule for camera and 1/4 power for flash. But those settings I used 20 years ago already. During the last 20 years was tremendous development of computers in cameras and flashes. Some people don't accept this and still use the sunny rule for the exposure. Maybe we need another book like Understanding Computers.
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