Amphoto Book: Mastering Flash Photography by Susan McCartney
Mastering Flash Photography - Vitally important to all photographers, lighting is thoroughly explored in this first fully color-illustrated guide to flash techniques, from point-and-shoot to studio work. From beginners to working pros, all photographers who need to learn or improve their electronic flash techniques will benefit from this solid instructional guide.
It opens with in-camera flash basics, then moves to intermediate topics such as automatic and manual exposure flash readings, detachable units, flash guide numbers, bounce flash, and fill flash, then covers advanced methods for using off-camera flash, flash brackets, power packs, remote triggering, and other techniques.
About the Author: Susan McCartney, whose photography has been published in top magazines, including Life and Glamour, is also the author of Travel Photography and Nature and Wildlife Photography. She is based in New York.
| Subject | Lighting |
| Author | Susan McCartney |
| Edition | Not specified |
| Hard/Soft Cover | Soft cover |
| Pages | 144 |
| Dimensions | 8.25 x 11" (216 x 279mm) |
| Illustrations | 10 black and white illustrations, 180 color illustrations |
| ISBN Number | 0817445455 |
| Publisher | Amphoto Books |
| Date Published | January 1999 |
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Comments about Amphoto Book: Mastering Flash Photography:
a grate book easy to read and understand
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- Deserves Multiple Readings
- Easy To Understand
- Informative
- Relevant
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- Older Readers
- Reference
- Travel Reading
Comments about Amphoto Book: Mastering Flash Photography:
I am a beginner of flash photograpy so I am still learning from the book and the book helps me.
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- New Ideas
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- Difficult To Follow
- Disappointing
- Not the Authors Best
- Not What I Expected
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Comments about Amphoto Book: Mastering Flash Photography:
To my knowledge, few people truly master Flash photography. I thought I could make a gift of this book, avoid me hours of "teaching", unfortunately, I am not happy with this purchase at all. After glancing at a few chapters, and looking closer, I find the information presented to be as follows:
Poor Examples
Bad Samples
Little or no visualization
Outdated equivalents
Overall, I will need to "keep shopping" for better written litterature on Flash Photography
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Comments about Amphoto Book: Mastering Flash Photography:
I should have read the reviews about this book. It only talks about 35mm film cameras. It was published in 1999... I returned it.
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- Easy To Follow
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It is a great over all learning tool to improve flash photography.
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- Easy To Follow
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- Lacks Content
- Poor Photo Quality
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I expected to learn flash techniques. I was disappointed, and felt mislead by the word "mastering" in the title. I think this book aims to give the reader a decent introduction to what is possible by flash photography.
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Comments about Amphoto Book: Mastering Flash Photography:
Has good background information about the subject, however copyrighted 1997, thus not up to speed with advances in digital photography.
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