As a wedding and portraiture photographer I have over the years had to hone my skills when using camera flash(s), I feel this is an area that intimidates and confuses a lot of photographers. A camera flash is a very useful piece of equipment and most camera users will know that as soon as you try to take a picture indoors in low light that’s when your camera needs the additional light created by the flash. The real art of indoor flash photography comes from the photographer understanding of light and being able to control how much light is added to the scene and where the light is added from. Everyone has taken or been in a picture where the subject has been ‘nuked’ with the camera flash light and the resulting image makes the subject look like red eyed demonic albino trapped in the head lights of an on coming truck.  Fear not all indoors flash pictures do not need to look like this, the real  fun and creativity begins when you start to use external flash light(s) which can be disconnected from the camera and then triggered remotely. Having the light(s) disconnected from the camera allows the photographer to control the direction plus also being able to manually control the amount of light hitting the subject creates far more interesting and creative images.

If you would like to learn more about flash and studio lighting then please come along to my next course I am running at the Summerlee Photo Media studios, use the following link for additional information: – FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY TRAINING COURSE

I have created a gallery below showing some images taken using the techniques discussed above: –