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A few attempts to clarify some mysteries about flash and digital photography basics, hopefully helpful.

Menu - Flash Photography

Four Flash Fundamentals We Must Know

1. Inverse Square Law

Camera Distance Does Not Affect Exposure

Guide Numbers

Bounce Flash, and TTL Flash Compensation

2. Continuous light vs. Instantaneous flash - vs. Shutter Speed

Maximum Shutter Sync Speed

Auto FP flash mode (HSS) - What is it?

3. Soft Light

What Hot Shoe Flashes Do (diffusion domes?)

4. Flash pictures are Double Exposures

White Balance Correction

Why Should I Shoot Raw?

Rear Curtain Sync for Motion

White Balance of Room Lights with Colored Filters (and Fluorescent)

Speedlight AA Batteries

Good Books on Flash Photography

The Main Trick is to Learn to Actually "See" the Lighting

What Umbrellas Do

Mounting Speedlights in Umbrellas

Standard 45 Degree Portrait Lighting Setup

Nikon CLS Commander Wireless Remote Flash System (AWL)

Which is Softer, Reflected or Shoot-through Umbrellas?

How Light Meters Work   (maybe not as assumed)

Details about Metering Principles

A Histogram is Not a Light Meter   Incident meters vs. Reflected meters

There are TWO types of Histograms   A common type does not show real data or clipping

Histograms are Gamma Encoded   The numbers are probably not what you think

Nikon TTL BL with D Lens Distance   Not always correct

Metering differences for direct or bounce flash   Distant Backgrounds or White Walls are opposite extremes

Pixels, Printers, Video - What's With That?   (The Most Fundamental Basic Digital Concepts)

Image Resize - Cropping, Resampling, Scaling

What are JPG losses?   JPG Artifacts

FX vs DX Lens Crop Factor

F/stops, in tenth-stops   f/stop, shutter speed, ISO, in third and half stops (EV too)

Photo Editor Curve Tool   (and levels and contrast and brightness and inversion...)

Comparing Properties of Speedlights vs Studio Lights

Methods to Trigger Flashes

Comparisons of Optical Slave Triggers   (for the SB-600 too)

Nikon TTL history - TTL, D-TTL, iTTL

Scanning Thousands of old Slides

Speed of Flash Units for High Speed Photography

Solenoid Valve for Water Drop photography

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