Speedlights with Mike Fulton

An okay session with snippets buried throughout. Lots of enthusiasm which is great but I would appreciate more substantive explanations of the trouble shooting, the settings, the reasons. Perhaps 90 minutes of solid material and as mentioned in another review, the equipment is a bit dated so perhaps time for an undate.

This course is a good introduction to the use of TTL (Canon ETTL), but be aware that this was created in 2014 and many of the concepts described are not applicable anymore (.e.g TTL Strobes, mirrorless limitations, etc.). You need to have a pretty solid knowledge of ISO, Aperture and many other concepts since Mike many items is just going very technical and fast. This is still a very good course and learned very useful tips.

Hello, i was looking for speedlight lesson for event photography. I wish this would have been written in about section. As a both Nikon and Canon user, i am glad to learn to use my canon flash in high speed mode and check it every time before starting to shoot.

This was a great class on using speedlites in TTL.

He is off with a few things he spoke of. 1. When your shooting ttl just moving the flash back is not going to change the exposure....when you move the flash back the ttl system will compensate and throw out more light... 2. When he said his batteries were dying thats why the images were so bright.... that was not the case.... you can see in the shadow behind the subject that the flash to camera right was flashing probably at full power. 3. When you start building your image, you should not expose for your subject.... you should expose for your background...because depending on how bright the background is, even if your exposing for your subject underexposing your subject the background may be to bright... 4. He never mentioned the fact that you need two exposures,,,, one for the ambient lght, once you expose for ambient light then introduce your flashes and adjust your flash power

If you think you're getting a Zach Arias type "beginner Strobist" type of video course here, you're wrong. Mike Fulton's entire lighting technique in this course is based off of TTL metering and using one of the auto functions on the camera. I can't help but think that many of the major Speedlight gurus out there (or the Strobist community) would scoff at the techniques taught here. ...but...as someone who has been a part of that community, read the website, done the challenges, purchased the OneLight series, the books, the cards...I kind of wonder why I didn't ever just go ahead and go the "easy" way with my Canon's ETTL mode. Mike's technique is simple and incredibly useful. He teaches you a step-by-step technique that is nothing short of common sense once you learn it, and this technique can be applied through to fully manual shooting if you're so inclined (fully manual mode on your camera meets fully manual mode on your flashes). You start here, then you go here, then you do this. BOOM. I wish this course would've had one additional example shoot built into it, outside. While I felt that the indoors mini shoot explained where he was going, it didn't appropriately display everything that Mike had been talking about throughout the course.

if you want to learn to use flash and need a course that gets right to exactly what you need to know, look no further! Mike is an excellent teacher and explains every detail!