INTRODUCTION

Welcome to One Flash!, my newest bag of tricks with all the latest flash photography techniques. This book follows up on the amazing success of my first book on flash, Creative Flash Photography, which appeared at just the right time and filled a previously neglected gap in the market. In that book, I used as many as seven flashes for some of the setups I described, which might have verged on overkill but definitely showed what’s possible with these often underrated marvels of technology.

But not all photographers own seven flashes, and others simply don’t want to carry that much gear on a shoot. So why not use just one flash? After all, the sun is our sole, primary light source on earth, yet it still offers a huge range of lighting ...

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