10. Advanced Wireless Lighting

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NIKON D4 ISO 100 1/250 SEC. F/4.5

Advanced Wireless Lighting (AWL) is the most exciting and useful feature of the Creative Lighting System (CLS). It is also the most complicated, especially when you’re just starting out, so it deserves its own chapter. AWL enables you to control the mode and power of an unlimited number of off-camera flashes right from your camera. In addition, with AWL you can assign the remote flashes to a maximum of three groups and control the mode and power for each group independently of the other groups. You can also decide whether you want the flash on the camera to add any light to the ...

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