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Photo Assignment: Fill Flash Portraits

Photo Assignment: Fill Flash Portraits

with Derrick Story

 


Photo Assignment: Fill Flash Portraits is an interactive video course, where participants learn how to augment outdoor lighting with a typical flash. Derrick Story shows how to use professional techniques to take great shots in a variety of situations, including full sun, partial shade, or even with odd cross-shadows. Derrick teaches how to create clean, natural-looking portraits even when the sun is at the worst possible angle. At the end of the course, Derrick describes how to upload photos to Flickr for review and comment.

Fill Flash Portrait Photo Assignment Flickr Discussion Group

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author
Derrick Story
subject
Photography, Flash Photography, Portraits, Lighting
level
Intermediate
duration
16m 39s
released
Oct 15, 2009

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Derrick Story

Derrick Story

Derrick Story is a professional photographer, writer, and teacher. He has poured his passion for photography into authoring several books, including The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers and The Digital Photography Companion (both O'Reilly Media). He is also a senior contributor for Macworld magazine, where he writes a digital photography column. Derrick is a member of the conference faculty for Macworld, and he speaks regularly at technology events. He has formed a virtual camera club called The Digital Story (www.thedigitalstory.com) that's open to all photography enthusiasts and features a weekly podcast.
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