The FroKnowsPhoto Beginner Flash Guide Information

The FroKnowsPhoto Beginner Flash Guide by Jared Polin is designed to help photographers, especially beginners, master the art of flash photography.

You Are Smarter Than Your Flash

You are smarter than your flash, so why let it make all the decisions for you? Your flash’s Auto feature may give you okay flash results, but who is happy with just okay?

This guide will show you how easy it is to quickly understand the fundamentals of flash photography and create dynamic lighting in any situation.

• Learn from two professional photographers
• You don’t need to spend a fortune to get professional results.
• No longer be afraid of your flash
• Finally understand flash photography
• Get Studio looking photos without the studio
• See how much more “Dynamic” your portraits look with a flash
• Learn the tricks of turning any location into a studio.
• Learn from “Real World” photo shoots

Your Lighting Kit Explained

Your lighting kit doesn’t need to be complicated or expensive. Here we talk about the putting together a simple portrait lighting kit. We then go on to talk about how to set up your flash on your stand with a convertible umbrella and flash trigger.

Four Ways to Trigger Your Flash

Here we show you four easy ways to trigger your flash. We break down how easy it is to trigger your flash and explain which options you can use in different situations. The best part is there is an option that will work with any flash you may have.

Flash to Subject Distance

Here we demonstrate what happens when you change the distance of your flash to your subject, while keeping all of your camera and flash settings the same. We’ll also demonstrate how that works with Adam shooting portraits of Jared while he moves the flash different distances from Jared.

Flash to Background Distance

In this section, we demonstrate how easy you can change the color of your background by moving closer or away from a wall with your subject and your flash.

How Shutter Speed Effects Ambient Light

Shutter speed directly affects Ambient Light in Flash Photography. Remember that. It’s probably one of the most important things to know when shooting with Flash

Aperture Demonstration – Shooting into the Sun

With an open Aperture (lower number) you’re letting in a lot of light. Closed Aperture (smaller number) you’re restricting the amount of light.

Understanding the Flash Zoom Head

Most of your flashes have a zoom head meaning that you can manually move the flash tube either closer or farther away from the the lens in your flash.

Quality of Light

This part of the guide focuses on the Quality of the light meaning how you can change the look of the light generated by your flash by using a modifier like an umbrella. An umbrella will serve to give you a smoother, softer light with nice shape as compared to a bare flash head which will give you a harder, more contrasty light.

What You’ll Learn In The FroKnowsPhoto Beginner Flash Guide?

Steam Owner Portrait Shoot

In this section, we show you how to shoot environmental portraits using one off-camera flash with an umbrella in a restaurant. Environmental Portraits are when you are specifically shooting your subject in a particular location to tie them and the location in to each other.

Studio Portrait without a Studio

In this shoot, we show what happens when you’re on a shoot and have to overcome a serious challenge. We are tasked to shoot studio-quality headshots but we don’t have studio, seamless backdrop or even a white wall.

Manager Environmental Portrait

Now that we’ve done headshots with Maria, we shoot Environmental Portraits of her tending bar. While we want the bar to look good for context, we really want Maria to look great, so we show you how we get an ambient exposure of the bar and then light Maria with one off-camera flash.

The FULL Elvis Room Shoot

In this shoot we show you how to build your exposure balancing Ambient light. This is a really great progression where we go thru so many options for lighting a subject with one flash and improvising with our surroundings.

In the Kitchen: Fridge Shot

This shoot is all about getting creative with flash. To prepare for this shoot, we developed a story behind our shoot and creatively used our environment to light our subject. We talk about pre-visualizing our shoots, and in this shoot we take things one step further by creating a story line.

Ping Pong Shoot

We get creative in this shoot with a super-inexpensive lighting modifier that totally gets the job done! This is another example of how you need to always think on your feet and adapt to your surroundings and available resources to get your shot.

About Author

Jared Polin is an accomplished photographer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin Magazine and countless other international publications. He has recently pointed his talents to the business world and established himself as an entrepreneur with incredible vision and impressive results.

In 2010, Jared launched FroKnowsPhoto.com, a fun and informative website for photographers that provides guidance in the art, process, equipment and experience of capturing moments in photos. Jared’s unique style and media savvy helped him grow the site’s audience The popularity of his “I Shoot Raw” brand of merchandise has catapulted Jared and FroKnowsPhoto to worldwide recognition, creating a legion of fans and photographers of all skill levels who flock to the site for education and assistance.

In addition to being a renowned photographer and online superstar, Jared is a trusted advisor and consultant to brands and companies looking to expand their online visibility. A recognizable personality at social media business and photo conferences around the United States, Jared is a sought-after speaker and a leading expert on photography and the use of content development and marketing.

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