Working with Speedlights

Jump Lily, Jump!

Go McKenzie!

McKenzie's scary Bakugan thingy

This week we worked with Sean McCormick (seanmccormickphoto.com) on using flash units aka speedlights. Speedlights are light and extremely portable sources of light. The thing that surprised me about speedlights are the modifiers available for them. We had grids, soft boxes and beauty dishes for the speedlighting class. An advantage of using speedlights is the ability to use a higher shutter speeds to capture high speed action shots. Most speedlights also have the ability to pop multiple times during a long exposure which creates a neat little sequential shot like my second shot.