Toronto Photography Meetup Group

I just want to learn how to properly use my flash and I guess I need to understand the basic of lighting as well so my best bet is to go and take a short course (yeah, I can't stand it if it's too long ) and try to understand as much as possible. So would <a href="http://www.vistek.ca/events/seminars/569/creative-lighting.aspx>this</a> be a good course to take?? Has anyone taken it before?? Thanks so much for your input.

you can learn a whole lot from here http://www.strobists.blogspot.com/ and they have practice exercises too.

there's also a link out there that lets you simulate the position of a strobe and see the results. kinda lazy to find it right now so if anyone can chime in that would be great.

but I don't have any of the stuff they have and I don't know how to set things up and all I have is just a 430ex flash

You should have come out when we held our strobist sessions ... I wouldn't pay $125 for a basic seminar, but that's just me.

Yeah, but I need to learn the basic and I don't mind if I have to pay rather than being jumped at for no reason

For Canon users check out:
http://super.nova.org/DPR/

There's also a lot of general stuff there too, but there is Canon specific stuff there.

As far as I remember, Piglet did come out to one of those strobist meets (first one if I remember correctly)

Thanks for the link, mikefellh. I'll bookmark it.

Yeah, Potato, I went to two strobist meets but James' talking about something else

that site caters to the average enthusiast. if you read through their 101 it will give you a really good insight on how to start. just have a look, it's not as intimidating as it seems.

What I can suggest is practice practice practice .. No matter how much zack arias, Joe mcnally and chase jarvis blogs I read I still learn way more from trial and error.. Just go out on free days and mess around

thanks for the link to the video...yeah...i'll just try again if i fail and try again but i just hope i don't end up being crashed in a plane