Photography Lighting Accessories

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Part of the video series: Photography Lighting Techniques

Summary: The flash trigger, which synchronizes a flash with a camera, is a common lighting accessory in photography. Learn about lighting requirements for taking photos in this free video on photography lighting techniques from a professional photographer.

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By Mark Bowers
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Mark Bowers runs Bowers Photography, located in American Fork, Utah. Bowers earned a Certified Professional Photographer degree (CPP) in 1986 from the Professional Photographers of...read more

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paco69 said

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on 7/12/2009 Oh great, more BS from Captain Obvious. Some great advice. "Like this particular thing is just a universal soft light and the quality of light is a lot softer", OMG... tell me he didn't just say that. He doesn't even explain WHAT IT MEANS. And this bit: "I have a regular flash tube head and I use plastic gels, with a little bit of duct tape on the back".... oh great advice Mark! Do you know why you are NOT supposed to use duct tape??? BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HOLD WELL AND THE GLUE THAT COMES OFF LEAVES MARKS AND STICKY SURFACES. You are supposed to use "Gaffer's tape". Where did you guys dig up this genius.... He got all the gadgets and he will get cheap on gaffer's tape??? Why didn't he just tell you to use "scotch tape" for gift wrapping....

No wonder people are lost on the net. With professional leaders like him?

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Mark Bowers from bowersphotography.com in American Fork, Utah, and this segment is lighting accessories. I wanted to show you a few things that are really really useful to us in our business. First is a little flash trigger. This trigger, it goes on the top of your camera, on the hot shoe, and it synchronizes your camera with an indoor flash. Second thing would be a light meter. There's lots of light meters out on the market that are good, but it's indispensable in the studio. Next item is an on camera flash. I use this all the time, especially on location lighting and the one thing that I really like about this is, is I can add different modifiers to it, something that makes it a softer light. Like this particular thing is just a universal soft light and the quality of light is a lot softer, and put that on the camera. Next thing that's real useful is a pop-up reflector. We use this to bounce a lot of light, especially in eyes and portraits, and you just hold the handle and pop the thing out, and it has a silver side and a white side. And you can fold those up and put them in a camera bag. The next thing is, this is a light modifier that I put on my strobe lights. It has a reflector and it also has a grid pattern to make a spot light out of my strobe lights. And the last one is probably one of the most useful in the studio. I use it to make a lot of different colors and patterns on my backgrounds. I have a regular flash tube head and I use plastic gels, with a little bit of duct tape on the back, to make different colors and I just put them on top of the flash tube and this one will flash orange or yellow, blue, red and I've got many many different colors and I just turn the flash around towards the back wall and just flash it on the background. It gives my background lots of different colors. The other thing that's important is I want to synchronize my flash with my camera and so I use this thing is called a slave and there's many different kinds, but you plug this in the back of your flash and it will synchronize this flash with the other flashes in the studio."