Speedlite Photography Course

The advanced photography course covers more advanced areas in photography. These specialised areas are now available to purchase individually as short courses. These are more specialist subjects that are normally not covered by other courses.

The Speedlite photography course -gives you the skills to use your speedlite in a more creative way. It covers all of the flash and camera settings. As well as this you will gain an understanding the flash theory needed to balance exposures for all lighting conditions. Off the hot-shoe flash and the various methods of connection is also covered. The key factor to this course is to be able to use flash and your camera in manual modes.  

The speedlite course will cover:

• Anatomy of a flashgun or speedlite
• Flash and a lens hood
• Slow and rear curtain sync
• Fill-in flash
• Flash exposure compensation
• Controlling background and subject brightness
• Bounce flash
• Flash hotspots
• Flash pre-test
• Lighting ratios
• Fall off and inverse square law
• Flash theory
• Flash sync speed
• Flash recycle time
• How to use off-camera flash
• Ways of firing your speedlite
• Shutter speed and exposure
• Controlling speedlite exposure in manual mode
• Adjusting flash exposure
• Subject and background brightness
• Looking for unwanted shadows
• Mixing daylight and flash
• Flash coverage
• Guide number
• Painting with light
• How to freeze movement using high-speed flash -Using colour gels