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What Every Strobist Needs to Know

Flash Basics

Choosing Your Equipment

You have a lot to learn before you can use flash in your sleep, and getting started can be tricky. This chapter provides a crash course in flash basics and introduces the gear you need to effectively use flash. You will learn how to fine-tune your skills using the sample setups in the individual workshop chapters that follow. If you find this chapter difficult, whet your appetite by looking at some of the workshops, then refer back to this chapter to find the answers to questions you may have. Of course, you can spend a lot of money on flash gear, but you don’t have to ...

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