Articles

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  Beyond Shutter Speed: Using Flash Duration to Freeze Motion

  Learn how to use a flash to freeze fleeting moments such as water splashes, even without high-speed sync.

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  Which Canon Speedlite Flash to Choose?

  Looking for a Canon external flash unit? Here, we compare a few models. Read on and see which one best suits your shooting style.

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  Start Flash Photography in 9 Steps!

  Bought your first Speedlite, but feel confused about how to get it up and running? Follow these 9 steps to getting your flash ready to shoot, and learn some basic concepts about external flash photography along the way.

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  [Part 1] Let’s Start Bounce Flash Photography

  Bounce flash photography is a photography technique that makes use of light reflected from objects

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  Speedlite 470EX-AI: Exploring the World’s First AI Bounce Function

  This article explores the two modes of the ground-breaking Auto Intelligent (AI) bounce function on Canon’s Speedlite 470EX-AI, and shares some techniques for making the best of them.

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  [Part 2] Bounce Flash Photography – Change Color Using White Balance Settings

  Here in [Part 2], let's see how you can change the atmosphere of the image

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  [Part 1] Capturing a subject standing against the sun with daytime sync

  Daytime sync is a technique of firing the flash under the sun with the sunlight

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  [Part 2] Capturing bright and impressive shot of flowers and subjects with daytime sync

  In [Part 2], I will explain the methods of photographing flowers and portrait using daytime

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  How to Produce Bright and Vivid Shots

  If your shots don’t turn out bright or vivid as intended even if you use an external flash, you might need to tweak your camera settings a little to do the trick. Here are a few common scenarios.

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  Capturing Portraits with Slow Sync Flash

  Despite the extremely short flash duration, which is about several thousandths of a second, Canon's

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  “Freezing” Movement with High-speed Sync

  When a normal flash is used, the fastest shutter speed is restricted to the range

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  Stroboscopic Flash

  As the image sensor performs imaging by reacting to light, the camera is unable to

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  Wireless Firing

  Wireless firing is a feature that enables remote firing of a flash that is placed

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  Multi-flash Photography

  Almost all of Canon's external Speedlite models in the market support wireless firing, which enables

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  Photography with Macro Lite Flash

  Macro Lite is a flash unit that is attached to the front end of the