Product Description

New owners of Canon Speedlites are often bewildered about how to use the flash unit effectively to produce the type of shots they want. Although the supplied manual does provide some technical assistance, Speedlites have been, and remain a mystery for many owners. This DVD sets out to change all that. With a running time of just over an hour, your host, professional photographer Tim Mantoani, takes the mystery out of these flashes and shows you how to use them to their best advantage. Whether you own one or several of these speedlites, Tim walks you through real world situations that can be made better with repeatable techniques. He not only tells you HOW the flash operates, butWHY the engineers designed the flashes with their current set of features. You've spent a lot of time and resources getting great camera equipment and learning how to use you camera effectively. This DVD will take you to the next level by allowing you to add light where you want it. Photography is all about communication. With a little information and one of these great speedlites, you can evoke exactly the response you want. These words appear on the back of the DVD: The new EX series of speedlites from Canon can be the most powerful accessory in your camera bag. Understanding how the controls work is important and this DVD takes you through their operation, step by step. Your host, professional photographer Tim Mantoani, demonstrates these flash units in a serie s

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18252 in DVD
• Brand: Blue Crane
• Released on: 2005-12-03
• Formats: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 61 minutes

From the Actor
This DVD keeps extra equipment needs to a minimum. Whether you own a 580EX, 430EX, or both, this presentation gives you a practical approach for all photographic subjects that require a little "portable sunlight".

About the Actor
Tim Mantoani has been a professional photographer for over fifteen years. Shooting everything from professional athletes and celebrities, to fashion and products, his work has appeared in numerous national advertising campaigns and magazines. His monthly column on lighting has appeared in Photographic Magazine for the past thirteen years.

Customer Reviews

Canon flash - moderately helpful/studio oriented
This video was moderately helpful to me. There seems to be a limited availability of instructional material out there on this product from what I was able to find so, some help is better than none. The video does focus on portait style photography. If you are interested in learning about how to shoot childrens parties, weddings or events, you will be disappointed in the very limited information on that subject. If you are interested in studio portraits and studio macro photography you will get some good information. This video left me wanting more specific instruction on the operation and application of the 580ex outside the studio setting. Overall, if you are willing to pay $20 for a few good nuggets, it's worth it.

Good AV to understand how to use the Canon 580 EX flash unit
This DVD is a good audio visual presentation to explain the settings and how to use the Canon 580EX flash unit effectively. Some people can better understand instructional material when presented as a audio/video presentation than to read a book. Tim Mantoani does a good job in presented basic inflormation about light quality first and then how to achieve the desired effects that go beyond the Canon manual and that makes the DVD worth viewing and owning. I would recommend this DVD to anyone struggling with how to effectively use the 580EX flash unit especially in the ETTL-II mode. You can achieve results like professional photographers who make the flash work as they intended.

Good buy
Very good content. Done in a studio, but applies to the outside world just the same. My only complaint is that it didn't play on my TV, just the computer, and I had to download a video codex pack to be able to do even that. I would like to relax in fromt of the TV to watch this at my leisure.
Watch it a few times to sort of soak it all in. Lots of great tips, much better themn just reading about how to do sometning.