You will enjoy the cool new ways of dealing with Lights in photography, fearlessly!
Learn about the Famous 5 Rule perfected by Andrew and the Big 5 Lighting Rule and how they related to each other.
Topics covered in this E-Learning Advanced Flash Photography Course:
- Course Introduction Of Advanced Flash Photography
An introduction to advanced flash and what will be covered in this course.
- Big 5 No 1, Shadows and the Properties of Shadows:
1. Directions & Angles of Lights
2. Shadow Darkness = Light Intensity
3. Shadow Fall-Off = Distance of light and Modifiers used
4. Shadow Colors
- Big 5 No 1, Shadows Part 2
Teaches us about the power properties of Shadows colors and an important point to master; called the Stop Differences and also Shadow Darkness. Pay close attention to Andrew's highly effective methods on the usage of his Shadow Chart, used to estimate aperture value suitable for your shoot.
- Big 5 No 2, the Coverage Part 1
Learn the key elements of this lesson; which is Area of Illumination and Light Intensity.
- Big 5 No 2, the Coverage Part 2
In this lesson, we shall focus on the important topics of Intensity and how to measure the intensity of your flashes and induced lights.
- Big 5 No 2 - Modifiers & Coverage
This lesson teaches how lighting modifiers can truly affect Coverage in terms of Area of Coverage and also reduce Intensity of lights. You will also be exposed to the concept of patterns of illumination.
- How To Use Big 5 Shadow & Coverage In A Shoot
This lesson shows step-by-step how do you use these two rules of Big 5 Shadow & Big 5 Coverage in conceptualizing a shoot & how these 2 rules can reveal the secrets of knowing the exact camera settings and flash power values.
- Practical Shoot - Big Coverage With Solid Background
Andrew teaches you how to get a solid (white) background in your shoot. This lesson also includes subscribers' assignments allowing subscribers to submit photos shot with such solid background (for discussions and C&C in the gallery). Also learn how to create Background & Subject's stop differences and also learn how a light meter is used in an actual shoot.
- Flash Intensity & Distance Using Lighter's Cheat Sheet
In this lesson, let's learn how to get accurate Flash Power & Distance for your photoshoot using Andrew's Lighter's Cheat Sheet, a tested and industry harden formula.
- Coverage - Background & Subject Stop-Differences Part 1
In this lesson, you will learn how to create exposure separation between your subject's exposure and the background exposure, implementing 'stop differences' between the two layers.
- Coverage - Background & Subject Stop-Differences Part 2
A direct continuation of Part 1, will teach you how you can do all the background & subject stop-differences without using a light meter. You will now learn how to combine 'Lighter's Cheat Sheet' with locational background exposure differences.
- Big 5 No. 3 - Highlight
Learn why highlight is important and how to get good highlights in a photoshoot.
- Big 5 No. 4 - The Edge
Learn the properties of 3 and how to control the speed of all the edges in a shoot.
- Big 5 No. 5 - Reflection
Learn how all shoots should be done with all the Big 5 components implemented step-by-step in a shoot. This lesson includes a grand finale behind-the-scene footage, showing you exactly how Andrew shoots with his lighting assistant from start to finish a highly reflective still-life in the studio (conceptualization to the final desired pictures).
- Final Lesson Of This Course - The Coke Shoot
To end this course, Andrew encapsulates in a full-length single-take video of how he uses Big 5 step-by-step to do a shoot of a glossy bottle of coke.
- Naming The Big 5 - On A Simple Shoot
How to use Big 5 step by step? How to do a product shoot with minimal gear?
