RKW Photography

Portraits Using Flash Photography

I took delivery of the Nikon SB-900 Speedlight Flashgun last week, in time for the National Hamfest event I was covering at the weekend. But of course, with delivery being so close to the actual event I couldn’t spend as much time with the instruction book as I would have wished for.

Needless to say, I knew I could have produced better results on the day, but the shots using flash were only a small proportion of those taken. End result: Enough commercial quality images to keep the client happy.

But that’s not the way I like to operate, so to get up to speed tomorrow I’m attending Going Digital’s Portraits Using Flash Photography workshop run by fellow tutor, Rod Corston.

It’s an ideal way to set aside time to become familiar with the flashgun, as I just know claiming enough time during a working day is just not going to happen – with the best will in the world. Small business people will understand…

But for regular folk (who wear the occasional python boot, tips hat to Frank Zappa) the workshop will give them all the basics for producing well-lit shots using either the camera’s onboard flash or one that attaches via a dedicated hotshoe.

Roll on tomorrow.