David Hobby produced a series of DVDs called Lighting in Layers that explains how to use small battery powered speed lights to produce amazing lighting effects. The videos show subtle lighting and dramatic lighting, with and without modifiers. There is lots of discussion on how shutter speed and aperture can be used to mix ambient light and speedlites.
The videos are well worth the cost if you are interested in learning the art of off-camera flash.
Joe McNally has been an idol of mine since I started learning how to light photographs. His books, like “The Moment it Clicks,” “The Hotshoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes,” and his blog were early resources that I used to learn lighting. Later I had the opportunity to see Joe and David Hobby on the Flash Bus Tour, when I purchased Joe’s The Language of Light DVD set.
While I tend more toward the manual “Strobist” approach, I have been trying to get enough Canon branded flashes to do some of the high-speed sync that Joe has demonstrated.
David Hobby is a local(ish) photographer in my area whom I find to be extremely talented. Having read his Strobist site, subscribed to his blog and watched his “Lighting in Layers” DVD series, I learned a great deal about working with small hotshoe flashes.
I very much enjoyed the Flash Bus Tour that he did along with Joe McNally.
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