Canon Speedlite System Digital Field Guide

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 215 pages
• Published by: Wiley April 9, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470045280
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470045282
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Description
Photography is all about light. Canon Speedlites give you the next best thing to cumbersome studio lighting - wireless flash units that you can actually pack in your camera bag and take along. Tuck this full-color book in there, too. It will help you maximize the effectiveness of your Speedlites and help you create professional lighting effects in more than a dozen unique settings. With this Digital Field Guide you'll:

• Learn all your Speedlite's settings and how to use E-TTL metering.
• Experiment with bounce flash, fill flash, and using multiple flash units.
• Set up a portable wireless studio with backgrounds, umbrellas, and soft boxes.
• Use Speedlites to light professional-quality shots ranging from studio portraits to concerts to product photography.
• Explore exposure, lens choices, and lighting for outdoor portraits, still lifes, and much more.

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Back Cover Copy
Shine the perfect light on every subject

Photography is all about light. Canon Speedlites give you the next best thing to cumbersome studio lighting — wireless flash units that you can actually pack in your camera bag and take along. Tuck this full-color book in there, too. It will help you maximize the effectiveness of your Speedlites and put information at your fingertips to help you create professional lighting effects in more than a dozen unique settings.

• Learn all your Speedlite's settings and how to use E-TTL metering
• 
  
  Experiment with bounce flash, fill flash, and using multiple flash units
• 
  
  Set up a portable wireless studio with backgrounds, umbrellas, and soft boxes
• 
  
  Use Speedlites to light professional-quality shots ranging from studio portraits to concerts to product photography
• 
  
  Explore exposure, lens choices, and lighting for outdoor portraits, still lifes, and much more

Reader Reviews
I'm about 2/3rds through this book, and I'm so disappointed with it that I feel like throwing it in the trash. It's just little better than reading the boring manuals that come with either of Canon's two leading flashes--the 430EX and the 580EX. The author basically gives you a manual, often repetitive, break down of each flash's feature (which you can easily find in the friggin manuals) and a lot of brief "you may," "you might," and "you should try," suggestions about using the flashes in different situations. For example, he refers to using a flash diffuser throughout almost the entire book, but he nor his editor had sense enough to show an actual diffuser on a camera and how it may be used! I mean dang, how hard can that be! Not once does he show a lighting setup to illustrate the use of flashes. Instead he just falls back on the same old way of describing technical information--dictionary, manual style. His section on wedding photoraphy is a joke. Speaking from experience, I promise you will learn a lot more about using the 530EX by simpling Googling "530EX and wedding photography," that you will in the 4 or 5 paragraphs he devotes to the subject. If this author is an accomplished photographer, why not do what writer/photographer Scott Kelby does and provide a series mini tutorials explaing how to set up and take a shot. Most beginners wanting to learn how to shoot with the flash(es) off the camera simply won't get a good understanding of the technique from reading this book. It just never dawned on the author to shoot some photographs that illustrate how to sync and use two flashes. Instead, like many photography writers, this author just assumes that providing his own well done shots is all the explanation you need. I really think the author and publisher of this book know that beginning and intermediate photographers are seeking good information about flash photography, so they basically threw the book together without any critical thought about what learners will need in order to use flash photography effectively. Again, I strongly advise you not to waste your money on the book. Search around for something better. I rarely give a poor rating for a book, but I just find this one seriously disappointing. If you think you must get it, I'll sell you my used copy for two bucks.