Off-camera flash tutorial – Flash with no ambient light

This tutorial about off-camera flash, is one of the segments in a series on how to use off-camera flash in a simple scenario – where there is no ambient light. This is a good introduction to the topic. In the next tutorial video, we will consider how we go about adding off-camera flash when we work with ambient light.

With this introduction, we cover the essentials such as:
·  Basic gear you would need for off-camera flash.
·  How we decide on our settings – in this case, it is really easy. We decide what aperture and ISO we want to use, because we don’t have to take ambient light into account.
·  Flash exposure is controlled by 4 factors:  PAID = Power, Aperture, ISO, Distance.

This video tutorial is one in a series that originally appeared on the Clickin’ Moms website in 2012, but licensing has now reverted back to me, and here we are – a tutorial that might be dated in terms of some of the gear used, but the principles remain the same. In conjunction with all the other articles about off-camera flash photography, these videos should make a good primer on the topic of off-camera flash.

• Off-camera flash tutorial – Flash with no ambient light
• Off-camera flash tutorial – Balancing flash with ambient light
• Off-camera flash tutorial – Off-camera flash on location
• Video tutorial: TTL fill-flash
• Video tutorial: Manual flash settings
• How to set up wireless flash with the pop-up flash

For a more up-to-date list of gear for off-camera flash, start with this: Gear list – Starting out with off-camera flash