Presented by Walter Rojter, past KCC President, Wedding and Event Photographer. This full day event is a mix of seminar presentation and hands on shooting. lt will help you get started and learn several on camera flash techniques, and hopefully in the process, overcome your flash fears, if any.

Requirements in order to get the most out of this workshop:

• Be familiar with your camera basic settings like manually setting your shutter speed, f-stop and ISO.
• Know how to read your in-camera meter
• SLR camera with an external flash, like Nikon's SB900, SB910, SB800 and Canon's 600EX-RT, 580EXII, etc.
• We will not cover the use of internal flashes
• A medium zoom lens, a long lens like, for example the 24-70mm; 70-200mm 

General Outline - (subject to change)

• What do we want to achieve with flash
• Available light and when flash makes sense or not
• Essential light concepts. Size, direction, intensity and color
• Exposure, manual or semi-automatic? 
• Using the histogram and blinking highlights
• The Sunny 16 rule
• Metering modes
• Flash modes, TTL vs Manual
• Flash Sync Speed
• First Curtain vs Second Curtain
• Adding flash to ambient light
• Dragging the Shutter
• Flash modifiers
• Bounce flash
• Using flash to control contrast
• Controlling light falloff
• Outdoor flash techniques
• A brief overview of off camera flash - Wireless TTL/Manual
• Hands on Shooting and practice