‫Up until now you've probably only been using your camera's built in flash that pops up at the top to
‫light up your subjects and to be honest it only really works well when you get very close on top of
‫that.
‫It only ever gives you frontline.
‫In other words the front of your subject is always even the lead which can make it look a little bit
‫flat.
‫If you want to be a little bit more creative when you light up your subjects you're going to need something
‫called a hot shoe flash like this one that's called a hot shoe flash because it fits into the camera's
‫hot shoe which is this little racket at the top and it's got a lot of advantages.
‫First of all it allows you to light up your subject over a much greater distance than you would have
‫with the camera's built in flash.
‫Take this beautiful family that I photographed outdoors has an example my camera's built in flash would
‫have been too weak to light them up over the 50 odd feet.
‫I was standing away from them but my heart you flesh easily led them up over that distance.
‫And the main reason that I wanted to stand a little bit further away was so that I could blur the background
‫so nicely.
‫Remember the more you zoom in when using a low value the more the background will be changing the brightness
‫of the hot flashes beam is very simple.
‫You usually just press a button at the back and then turn a little dial to change the flash exposure
‫compensation to the plus side to make the beam brighter.
‫Head to the minus side for a slightly softer beam this way I can control exactly how much I to my subject.
‫Secondly you can further soften the light by pulling out this little diffuser and popping it in front
‫of the flash.
‫This way it will just emit a much softer beam of light.
‫You can also tilt the hot flashes head up 45 degrees like this.
‫Get out the diffuser plus a little white piece of plastic and when combined it gives you an even softer
‫beam of light much much less harsh than it would be if you point the flash directly at your subject.
‫In this example I used a hot shoe flash pointed straight at the people without a diffuser and the result
‫is rather harsh lighting.
‫In this example however I use the diffuser and white reflector at a 45 degree angle.
‫And as you can see the result is much more pleasing as far as I know most hot flashes do come with this
‫little diffuser but not all of them will have a little piece of white.
‫Pull up plastic.
‫The advantage of a hot shoe Flash is the fact that you can twist and tilt the head around it like I
‫said a moment ago.
‫You can create soft light by moving it up 45 degrees like this and then using the diffuser and the white
‫plastic to create nice soft light.
‫But you can also pointed directly at the ceiling to bounce the light off the top.
‫Now this works very well for low white ceilings like you often find and wedding Vinnies and that's why
‫you find wedding photographers often walking around with the flash pointing upwards just allows for
‫the light to bounce off the ceiling and light up the bride and groom even from the top like this.
‫You can also twist to the flesh head to the side like this to bounce it off a wall and create sideline
‫like in these two examples.
‫The give away that the like was bounced off the left hand side or small shutters on the other half of
‫the subject.
‫What I also do from time to time when I'm taking marketing photographs of rooms is I twist the head
‫backwards like this.
‫And then I bounce the light off a bright wall behind me to light up the rooms evenly like this.
‫The last advantage that I would like to mention is that you can use a Hutchie flash remotely.
‫In other words you can place it away from the camera to create unique angles of light on your subject.
‫And I'll discuss that in more detail in the next lecture.
‫So if you enjoy photographing people or you do a lot of indoor photography I can highly recommend archery
‫flash.
‫Always remember to buy the best you can afford and to buy a Canon hot flash for Canon body hand a Nichkhun
‫Hutchie flash for any Convery in the next lecture.
‫I'm going to talk more about remote flash photography.