What Happens on My Mastering Your Speedlight Course: Some Student Work

Green-gelled speedlight portrait of Scott Keenan
Pic by Phil Blackford

Photographer Phil Blackford in front of his own (blue-gelled) speedlight and camera

In a slightly different take on the traditional use of a speedlight, Phil Blackford and team captured this ink dropping into a wine glass using high speed flash sync with an exposure of f16, 1/1000s, ISO 1600

Another great use of high speed flash.
In a slightly darkened room Phil set up a speedlight close to the wine glass with a fast shutter speed of 1/1000s in the speedlight's high speed sync mode
(I was the official 'wine' pourer - no wonder I never got a job as a sommelier...).

Flash portrait of Phil Blackford by Jeff Hankins using coloured gels - orange and red on the face, plus a dark blue gel on the background.

Phil Blackford portrait
Red and blue-gelled shot by Jeff Hankins

'Scott'
Another moody gelled, two-flash portrait by Jeff Hankins

Nice portrait shot in an office situation (typically producing unflattering light) using a carefully bounced speedlight
Pic by Scott Keenan

Another great, natural-looking speedlight result from Scott Keenan

Portrait of Jeff by Scott Keenan - again, a bounced speedlight against a white board background

Here's another nice, underlit, and very moody portrait from Scott Keenan using a single speedlight and a honeycomb grid.

Two superb high key flash shots from AJ.
Faye (above)" and Scott below.

A very professional result from AJ.
Though this is a flash shot - it looks very casual and is perfectly lit...

Portrait of Harsha by AJ.
Perfect combination of natural light and speedlight, balancing indoor and outdoor illumination perfectly.

A very strong low key speedlight result by AJ - a little too dark in the background perhaps - a second speedlight with a honeycomb grid or snoot to backlight the hairline would help but, as a single light result, this works nicely.