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title: "The Flash Book: How to fall hopelessly in love with your flash, and finally start taking the type of images you bought it for in the first place (The Photography Book, 6)"
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# The Flash Book: How to fall hopelessly in love with your flash, and finally start taking the type of images you bought it for in the first place (The Photography Book, 6)

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- **What is this?** The Flash Book: How to fall hopelessly in love with your flash, and finally start taking the type of images you bought it for in the first place (The Photography Book, 6) by scott kelby
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great information for studio and field with a few quirks.
  

*by B***P on Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2018*

This book does a good job of covering the proper use of flash equipment both in the studio and in the field. If you choose to buy this book, be aware that a lot of the book is about studio lighting, so if you don't do or plan to do any studio work these parts of the book will be less valuable to you. There's enough about in-the-field lighting to be useful to you if you don't do studio work.If you study (and not just read) this book and endeavor to apply the ideas the author presents (and you're willing to do a lot of trial-and-error effort) you'll get a good grounding in how to use a flash, or multiple flashes, to create beautifully lit photographs.There are many recommendations on equipment to use and equipment not to use and these discussions are quite helpful. The good news here is that a good flash setup can be put together without breaking the bank. The reader will have to decide which equipment is a good fit for his or her photographic needs.That said, there are a few oddities in the book...On page 48 there's an odd and confusing discussion about adjusting the brightness of the flash by changing the flash power (no doubt about this) and by changing the f stop, which, of course changes the brightness of the flash and of the entire image.Also, there is a discussion about how to balance flash illumination and background illumination beginning on page 88, and another discussion of the same subject that begins on page 172. These discussions are for all intents and purposes the same. Good ideas, though.I recommend this book to the user who is willing to spend some time understanding and trying the techniques described.

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    Read 1/3, skimmed the rest.  Not at all worth the cost.
  

*by D***O on Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2019*

Liked: Simple approach to using flash.Disliked: Writing style.  The author made it clear at the beginning that the introduction to each chapter was going to be an attempt to be funny, and that one could skip each of these introductions without losing anything of importance.  That was certainly true.  But throughout the book the author kept trying to be funny.  He may be a "best selling author of photography technique books" but as a comedian he fails miserably.It seems to me that the same information could have been conveyed in a short blog post.  Here's a short summary ... perhaps it will save you from having to spend the money:1) Use manual mode, not TTL.  Use a RF (radio) wireless trigger.2) Get the flash unit off the hot shoe ... unless you are bouncing light off the ceiling (or a wall behind you).3) Set the ISO to the lowest "natural" setting for your camera, try a shutter speed of 1/125 or so, and an aperture of about 5.6.  Take a test shot to get the background as you want it ... perhaps a bit under-exposed.4) Turn the flash on and adjust the power (output) as needed.  Take test shots.5) Change the shutter speed to adjust the background.6) Change the aperture (and the flash power setting) to adjust the effect of the flash.7) Change the ISO to adjust both bg and fg.8) Position the flash to come in at about 45 degrees and from the same side as the natural lighting.9) If you want to lug around a pile of stuff to make you look like an important photographer, bring in stands, soft boxes, and extra flashes.  (He said nothing about using bounce cards -- e.g., Demb -- but they are often all you need.)10) Use gel filters on the flash to adjust the color.  The cold-white of the flash doesn't work well for outdoor fill.One last thing.  Ignore what the author says about the meaning of "ISO".  Look it up on the web and forget what he said.

### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    The author thinks he is a hilarious comedian
  

*by N***D on Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2019*

Don't get me wrong, there is some useful advice in this book. However, it is mixed in with a great deal of useless blathering and many pages of set up for insipid "jokes." Most of the photographs are completely unnecessary, and there is a lot of information missing (like how to actually set up your light stands, attach items, etc. The author recommends a large number of items to buy, and yet includes on vague reasons as to why you should purchase these items, and what to use them for if one does.If you took out the pointless stuff, this book would be a pamphlet. If you can find a used copy for about $5, go ahead and pick it up. It is not worth anything close to the cover price.

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