Creative Flash Photography: Great Lighting with Small Flashes: 40 Flash Workshops

The subtitle of this book is the best description of what you’d find inside: Great Lighting with Small Flashes: 40 Flash Workshops. Over the course of 290 pages, this book breaks down numerous techniques into digestible chunks – 40 chapters discussion subjects which range from portraits to product photography and macro photography. What is particularly impressive me about Tilo’s work and this book – the variety in subjects. What is particularly impressive me about Tilo’s work and this book – the variety in subjects. Over the course of 290 pages, this book breaks down numerous techniques into digestible chunks – 40 chapters discussion subjects which range from how to light and shoot portraits to product photography and macro photography. The author concentrates on speedlights and affordable accessories. So the techniques are well within the reach of every photographer. The material in the book is easily accessible – the techie stuff is also distributed in each chapter as Tips, Tricks and Notes. There are also side-bar articles and In-Depth notes within each Workshop chapter, where topics are discussed on their own. There are also notes on any Photoshop techniques he used in post-processing an image. For transparency, I should mention that I know the author. I am impressed with his work … which beautifully illustrates this book. I should also mention that I bought my own copy of this book, because I had high expectations of Tilo in this regard.

Good & easily understood information.

Happy with this purchase. It is a very technical book. It has allowed me to experiment with flash light and achieve creative effects. Get out of the comfort zone. It has a lot of effective information and very good tips on the use of flash. It is for photographers with more advanced knowledge and an excellent guide for settings and use of different types of artificial light creating different environments. Yes, I recommend this book to have it in your shelf for frequent consulting.

Way to much of the book is on tabletop and product photography. Lighting food multiple times, a guitar, a watch chocolate, noodles gets to be a bit over saturation of tabletop stuff.

This is a very practical book that provides a lot of very useful and practical tricks. The explaination is each scene is very thorough and really focused on making sure that readers understand how to recreate the photos in this book. Definitely recommended for any one who wants to improve lighting skills.

This is what i expected !!! I red a lot of reviews from differents books. I was looking a book with new ideas (to me), simple setups made at home, try differents things, new things, inverted lens to do macro, use flashes and gels, take simple product images (at home, no studio), etc. and this book really have all this and more. Really happy with the book. I will buy more from Tilo, that's for sure. This is not a book for beginners, if you are learning about aperture, speed, ISO, flash, off-flash, etc., don't buy this book of course, first buy a book for beginners; but, this is your second book !

Good book, good price

This book provides readers with easy to follow directions for producing amazing shots. It not only tells readers "how" to set up shots, but it also helps readers to understand "why" they are being set up that way. It also shows post-processing tips for most of the shots. Great book.

Devo dire che ho trovato utilissimo questo libro. In esso si trovano opportunamente ordinati in maniera logica e con difficoltà crescenti tanti esempi di fotografie fatte tutte con l'uso di uno o più semplici flash di tipo cobra alla portata di tutti con una minuziosa descrizione delle varie impostazioni e tanti esempi. Utilissimo per chi, come me, vuole realizzare foto quasi da studio. Lo consiglio davvero a chi fosse interessato a questo tipo di fotografia.

J'ai acheté mon premier flash il y a peu et ce livre offre énormément de resource pour sortir des setup habituels quand on commence à utiliser un flash.

The book will teach you how to use and master off-camera flash in variety of situations. A recommended read for those who intend on using artificial light when pressing the shutter.

Plenty of excellent ideas that are very well described

Excellent book with practical tips for getting started with flash but the cover completely detached when I received it.