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| Welcome Speedliter! | |
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| Chapter Zero | |
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| Quick Start Guide to Speedliting | |
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| Why Pop-Up and Hot Shoe Flash Do Not Create Interesting Light | |
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| Deal With the Ambient Light First | |
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| Who Is In Charge You Or Your Speedlite? | |
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| More Essential Truths About Speedliting | |
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| Before Speedlites, There Was Light | |
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| Chapter one | |
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| Learn to See Light | |
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| The Poetry of Light | |
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| Character of Light | |
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| How You See vs. How Your Camera Sees | |
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| Exposure Exposed | |
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| The Trinity: ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture | |
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| Depth of Field | |
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| Equivalent Exposures | |
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| Exposure Modes | |
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| Metering, Metering Zones, and Metering Modes | |
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| White Balance | |
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| Exposure Evaluation For Flash Photography | |
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| Determining Proper Exposure | |
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| Mechanics of Light | |
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| Color .Primarily | |
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| Taking Color's Temperature | |
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| Incidence Incidentally | |
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| Soft Light Proves That Size Is Relative | |
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| Falling Off, Or How to Love the Inverse Square Law | |
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| Thinking About Flash-To-Subject Distance As Stops | |
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| Light of the World | |
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| The Role of Ambient Light | |
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| Controlling Ambient In Flash Exposures | |
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| Options For Blending Ambient and Flash | |
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| Think Globally, Light Locally | |
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| The Lighting Compass | |
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| On-Axis and Off-Axis Light | |
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| Light From Above . and Below | |
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| Speedlites Fundamentally | |
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| Meet the Speedlites | |
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| Dissecting A Burst of Flash | |
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| Speedlite 580EX II | |
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| Speedlite 430EX II | |
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| Speedlite 270EX | |
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| Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX | |
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| Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX | |
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| Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2 | |
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| Control Your Speedlite | |
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| Mode Deciding How the Power Level Is Set | |
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| Sync Deciding When to Fire the Flash | |
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| Zoom Deciding Where to Fire, Part | |
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| Pan and Tilt Deciding Where to Fire, Part | |
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| Flashing Manually | |
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| Manual Flash A Way to Get Started | |
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| When to Use Manual Flash | |
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| Setting Power Manually On Canon Speedlites | |
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| My Workflow: Using One Speedlite In Manual Mode | |
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| E Is For Evaluative | |
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| E Is For Evaluative | |
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| Mechanics of E-TTL | |
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| Limitations of E-TTL | |
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| E-TTL and Camera Modes | |
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| Flash Exposure Compensation | |
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| Flash Exposure Lock | |
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| Move Your Speedlite Off-Camera | |
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| Your Camera Is A Lousy Place to Put A Speedlite | |
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| Options For Controlling Off-Camera Speedlites | |
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| E-TTL Cords | |
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| Canon Built-In Wireless | |
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| E-TTL Radio Triggers | |
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| Sync Cords and Hotshoe Adapters | |
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| Optical Slaves and Infrared Triggers | |
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| Manual Radio Triggers | |
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| Wireless Speedliting, the Canon Way | |
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| Canon's Built-In Wireless System | |
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| The Master: One Speedlite Has to Be In Charge | |
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| To Fire Or Not to Fire: the Master Wants to Know | |
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| The Slave: the Worker Bee of Wireless Flash | |
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| Channels: Everyone Has to Be the Same | |
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| Groups: Assigning Specific Jobs to Specific Speedlites | |
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| Getting Rational About Ratios | |
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| A:B Ratios: Splitting Up the Load Between Two Groups | |
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| A:B C Ratios: Three-Group E-TTL | |
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| Wireless Speedliting In Manual Only | |
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| Free-Agent Wireless: Firing Speedlites In E-TTL & Manual Together | |
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| Moving Your Master Off-Camera Way Off Camera | |
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| Radio Options For Wireless E-TTL | |
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| Mixing Canon Speedlites With Other Lights | |
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| Third-Party Speedlights | |
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| Getting Speedlites to Play With Other Small Flash | |
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| Speedlites, Monolights, and Studio Packs | |
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| Not Getting Burned Speedlites With Hot Lights | |
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| Managing the Glow Speedlites With Fluorescent | |
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| Gear For Speedliting | |
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| Chapter Thirteen | |
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| Go Ahead, Mod Your Speedlite | |
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| Why Mod? | |
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| Built-In Modifiers | |
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| Options For Mounting Mods | |
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| Dome Diffusers | |
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| Bounce Reflectors | |
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| Softboxes That Attach to Speedlites | |
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| Ring Light Adapters | |
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| Snoots | |
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| Grids | |
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| Gobos and Flags | |
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| Random Essentials | |
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| Deciding Which Mods Are Right For You | |
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| Chapter Fourteen | |
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| Those Big Modifiers Always Get In the Way | |
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| Why Mod In A Big Way | |
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| Umbrellas | |
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| Softboxes Made For Speedlites | |
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| Converting A Studio Softbox For Speedlite Use | |
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| Beauty Dishes | |
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| Scrims and Diffusion Panels | |
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| Reflectors | |
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| Flags and Solids | |
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| Chapter Fifteen | |
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| Get A Grip | |
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| Mounting A Speedlite Anywhere | |
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| Sometimes You Have to Take A Stand | |
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| Reaching Out: Poles, Booms, and Boom Stands | |
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| Rails and Other Multi-Lite Mounts | |
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| Staying Flexible: Bungies, Straps, and Gaff | |
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| Chapter sixteen | |
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| Keeping the Energy Up | |
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| Batteries Basically | |
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| Single-Use Batteries | |
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| Rechargeable Batteries | |
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| Best AA Batteries | |
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| Battery Strategies | |
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| CP-E4 Compact Battery Pack | |
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| Charging Batteries | |
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| Carrying Batteries | |
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| Speedliting In Action | |
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| Chapter Seventeen | |
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| Lighting Portraits Classically | |
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| One More Time Around the Lighting Compass | |
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| Broad Lighting | |
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| DMV Lighting | |
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| On the Nose Lighting | |
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| Butterfly/Paramount Lighting | |
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| Copy Lighting | |
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| Short Lighting | |
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| Loop Lighting | |
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| Rembrandt Lighting | |
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| Split & Hatchet Lighting | |
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| Horror Lighting | |
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| Chapter Eighteen | |
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| Portraits With One Speedlite | |
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| Back to Basics, Quickly | |
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| Shoot: One Speedlite With Fill Reflector | |
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| Shoot: Reflecting On the World of Umbrellas | |
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| Shoot: Think of the Shutter As A Light Modifier | |
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| Shoot: Speedliting A Silhouette | |
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| Shoot: Sun As Rimlight, Gelled Speedlite As Fill | |
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| Shoot: Trying All the Ezyboxes On For Size | |
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| Shoot: Through An Umbrella Softly | |
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| Shoot: Candlelight Through A Disk Diffuser | |
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| Shoot: Gridding A Speedlite For Drama | |
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| Chapter Nineteen | |
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| Portraits With Two and Three Speedlites | |
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| Opening Horizons With Multiple Speedlites | |
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| Shoot: Classic Three-Light Setup | |
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| Shoot: Clamshell Lighting, Top to Bottom | |
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| Shoot: Ring That Light With Small Hatchets | |
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| Shoot: Color Creates Mood | |
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| Shoot: Trio of Speedlites Into A Big Silver Umbrella | |
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| Shoot: Dance With the Softbox | |
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| Shoot: Shade That Speedlite | |
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| Shoot: Mixing Speedlites With Water | |
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| Shoot: Multi-Lite, Second-Curtain Sync | |
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| Shoot: Two Heads Can Be Better Than One | |
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| Chapter Twenty | |
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| Gelling For Effect | |
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| Gels Quickly | |
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| If Color Correction Is Needed, Did Something Go Wrong? | |
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| Getting Dramatic With Color | |
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| My Favorite Gels | |
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| Mounting Gels | |
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| Mixing White Balance and Gels Creatively | |
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| Shoot: Golden Hour Anytime | |
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| Shoot: the Blue World | |
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| Shoot: Coloring the Night | |
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| Chapter Twenty-one | |
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| Slicing Time With High-Speed Sync | |
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| How High-Speed Sync Changed My Career | |
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| Activating High-Speed Sync | |
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| Syncing Flash Normally | |
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| High-Speed Sync Changes the Way Your Speedlite Fires | |
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| Workflow For Creating Dramatic Light With HSS | |
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| Alternatives to High-Speed Sync | |
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| Shoot: Defying Gravity In Broad Daylight | |
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| Shoot: Freezing Water On A Hot Day | |
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| Shoot: Flashing Wide Open In Full Sun | |
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| Shoot: Stray Dog and Stray Light | |
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| Chapter Twenty-two | |
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| Dimming the Sun | |
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| Options For Dimming the Sun | |
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| How to Dim the Sun With A Fast Shutter | |
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| Using Zoom As A Light Modifier | |
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| Shoot: Secret Agent Tony | |
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| Chapter Twenty-three | |
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| Smashing Pumpkins With Gang Light | |
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| Gang Lighting A New Way to Light | |
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| Shoot: Smashing Pumpkins | |
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| Shoot: Lady of the Opera | |
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| Shoot: Backyard Soccer Champion | |
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| Shoot: Flying High After Sunset | |
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| Shoot: Pushing Back Against the Desert Sun | |
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| Chapter twenty-four | |
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| Speedliting Events | |
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| The Dual Roles of Event Photography | |
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| Strategies For Lighting Events With Off-Camera Flash | |
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| Shoot: Vineyard Wedding | |
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| Shoot: Paderewski Festival | |
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| Shoot: Wheels of Wellness | |
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| Shoot: Festival of the Arts | |
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| Chapter twenty-Five | |
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| Strobo, Strobo, Strobo | |
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| Flashing Again and Again | |
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| Single Speedlite Stroboscopic | |
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| Multi Speedlite Stroboscopic | |
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| Other Considerations For Stroboscopic | |
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| Shoot: Birdman | |
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| Shoot: Leaps of Faith | |
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| Shoot: It's Outta Here | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Gang Slang For Speedliters | |
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| Web Resources For Speedliters | |
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| Custom Functions | |
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| Six-Point Checklist For Speedliting | |
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| Index | |