new to lighting please advise!

[Robbo]

hello.... im just wondering how much of an advantage a light gun can be (is that the one that tall and sits on top of the camera?) lol

anyways im just trying to branch out and wondered what situations it can be useful over the built in flash.

thanks.

 

[markw08]

A lot more powerful...

You can play with off camera flash...
Check out this site.

http://www.strobist.com

Mark

 

[rotherad]

As Mark said, they are a lot more powerful that the built-in flash, they also use their own batteries so dont drain the camera ones.

The light direction can almost always be changed so you can bounce flash of a wall/ceiling.

Because the flash sits tall on top of the camera it means that it is a lot less likely to cause red eye when taking pictures of people.

There really are 100's of advantages to using a speedlight over using your built-in flash, take a look through this forum or give it a search on Google, it will keep you busy for hours!

 

[mastertrinity]

not only that but all sorts of pro's use them for portraits or when on location such as fashion photographers

 

[david1701]

you can get it away from the camera, then you have control and make the pictures happen

 

[Robbo]

thanks for the replies ive just got one and trying to figure out what settings changes what!

 

[david1701]

what ya got?

I might be able to help (had a 450d back in the day)

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