Lighting for Beginners: Getting Started with Off-Camera Flash – Photo Premium
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Lighting for Beginners: Getting Started with Off-Camera Flash – Photo Premium

on Nov 24th 2010 with 12 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Requirements: A Camera, Strobes, and Other Accessories
  • Completion Time: An hour to learn, a lifetime to master
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Using off-camera artificial light in your photos opens up a whole new world of possibility for creative photography. Once you start experimenting with off-camera lights, or “strobes”, your photos will become more creative, and you can take complete control of how light affects your subject.

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What Do You Need?

In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through everything you need to get started with off-camera flash. From the basics, right through to more advanced kit, we’ll cover:

  • Camera Requirements
  • Strobes
  • Syncing and Triggers
  • Stands and Swivels
  • Umbrellas and Softboxes
  • And much more!

Lighting Examples

After you’ve picked up the basic gear, you’ll want to know how to set it up and get shooting. We’ll walk you through how everything connects together, and different options for triggering your strobes.

The tutorial finishes with a selection of different photo examples and their associated lighting setups, to help illustrate how easily different effects can be achieved!

lighting tips for beginners
lighting tips for beginners

Get to Grips with Off-Camera Flash

If you’d like to expand your photography knowledge into a new area, this Premium tutorial will give you a great starting point.

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  • http://www.perminator.com Perminator

    Does that dude with the perm have a gun in his hand?

  • 7

    …..or you could visit strobist.blogspot.com and get all this info, 100 times over, for free.

    Yeah.

    • Julian

      Thanks

  • Craig C

    You want $9 per month for something that is available for free? Just took you off my reading list. Thanks for nothing.

    • http://davidappleyard.net David Appleyard
      Staff

      Hey Craig,

      Thanks for your comment. We’re still working out the types of content that will be most valuable for Premium, so bear with us!

      I’d love to hear what you would like to see on the site. What could we be publishing that you’d love to pay $9 per month for?

      Also, it’s worth noting that all our Premium posts are in addition to our regular content – we’re still publishing the same number of completely free tutorials and articles!

  • Dustin

    Wow… What a waste of bandwidth… After roughly reading through this “article”, it makes me think two things.

    1. Damn these guys have absolutely no motivation to create an article worth reading. It’s like you guys are struggling to keep content up on the site.

    and

    2. Thank God, I am no longer paying for a monthly membership to this site…

    You guys should really look into more tutorial type of articles. Something to show how to do certain creative elements within your photos. I understand that Thanksgiving is right around the corner, but stop being so damn lazy.

    <3

    • Skellie

      Have you by chance mistaken the article preview for the full article?

  • http://twitter.com/xxxbngxxx Bryan Grajales

    There are so many tutorials like this for free that I can’t seem to understand why this article is only for premium users. None of my business but to my opinion PhotoTuts shouldn’t go Premium since there are more websites with the same type of articles for free. You guys are gonna end up losing readers if you keep doing this…
    The article seems good but It’s not worth the money.

  • Imran Ali Dina

    David Hobby should see this tutorial :D

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertnellums/ Robert Nellums

    You people complaining about $9. It’s $9! You spend that on nonsense stuff 4 or 5 times each month.

    You can learn things here not on other sites. Their delivery is better. Don’t discredit them by saying you can get it here or there, that’s not professional or respectful.

    None of you will ever learn with that attitude.

    Thanks Tuts+ for all of the effort you put into your content.

  • Daimler

    Excelente el sitio una persona que no valora el trabajo de otro no puede esperar ser reconocido , ni pagado pues sera pesado igual que lo hace ellos cobran pues sienten que es lo que vale su trabajo
    y de igual forma valoro el mio quien soy para decir que lo mio vale miles y lo de otra persona nada.

    Que es gratis… si usted va a una granja puede encontrar puede encontrar platanos gratis pero si el dueño te cobra no puedes hacer algo mas que pagar por su trabajo.

  • art

    Some sites have information that is free and some not. Pick the site you want to veiw but to shoot them down when they do have free stuff also on the site just blows me away.

    Keep up the good work because I know for one I have picked a lot of great information for free on this site.

    Thanks
    Art