This is a short, easy-to-read book with good, applied admonition on application on-camera flash. The alone added *good* book I've apprehend on beam so far is Joe McNally's "Hot Shoe Diaries", which is excellent. I begin myself comparing these books afterwards accepting apprehend them both.
The abstruse advice presented at the alpha of the book was appealing good, and on par with added books I accept read. I begin it absorbing how McNally's address is absolutely altered than van Niekerk's. Granted, "Hot Shoe Diaries" absolutely focuses about alone on off-camera flash(es!), and this book is about on-camera flash, but still, the best of camera modes and techniques to admeasurement acknowledgment are actual different. For example, Van Niekerk recommends the Zone System and chiral exposure, and McNally recommends application breach antecedence and application the camera's cast metering. To anniversary his own, I guess.
I begin the affiliate on beam accompany to be decent, but not as bright as it could accept been. The affiliate on ablaze modifiers was appealing thin. Some of the archetype pictures abreast the alpha of the book I begin difficult to chronicle to (since it seemed they weren't consistently apples-to-apples comparisons). There was a console of images that was declared to appearance capricious the amount of ambient light, which I accepted to appearance differences in bang speed, but it showed comparisons of altered apertures (which acutely affects DOF).
The blow of the book is absolutely about how you should be bouncing the beam to get best results. There are some acceptable examples accustomed throughout the book assuming ambient light, the setting, and the attempt with and after flash, to absolutely accord you a acceptable activity of what's traveling on from the point of appearance of the columnist (and not just the final picture). Not every archetype is like this (it'd be nicer to accept more). On the added hand, some examples did accord the altered appearance points, but it didn't consistently add to the account (sometimes, it was abstruse absolutely what the picutre of the ambiance was declared to show).
I admired how this book shows some acceptable examples of how a individual on-camera beam accumulated with bargain gels and ablaze shapers, can aftermath actual acceptable after-effects if acclimated properly. This is clashing McNally's book, which shows abundant images (often stunning!), but McNally is generally application abundant added big-ticket accessories (even with just one flash, a lot of picutres from the "Hot Shoe Diaries" use diffusers, panels, umbrellas, and added accessory to get aggregate "just right"). I apprehend that again, it's difficult to compare, back that book is a lot of about off-camera flash.
All in all, this was a abundant read. Recommended.
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