I've never called myself a photographer but if I had, I probably would have labeled myself as a "natural light photographer." In fact, a perhaps more appropriate label might have been "anti-flash photographer." I hated flash. More specifically, on camera flash. There are thousands of articles that can articulate why it's gross better than I can, but I was so anti flash I'd almost rather lose an opportunity for an image than take one with it.
In comes off camera flash. Strobes, speedlights, flash guns, the differences are subtle but the results are the same. Better images. There are all sorts of resources to learn about this tool and technique. Some of my favorite include:
http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/
http://www.adorama.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/adoramaTV
https://www.youtube.com/user/BHPhotoVideoProAudio (some really great webinars)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD0UStsvhecPxvNONLz3clA (Joe Brady and Rick Sammon have some great webinars on this and other channels)
These resources opened up all kinds of avenues to explore which include another of my favorite things. Gadets!
If you're interested in photography of any kind, these are great places to start. Check them out and see where else they lead you. Some of them are sponsored by certain brands or products, so the equipment they talk about is typically top of the line. In other words, expensive. The principals remain the same regardless of what you use, so in the next post I'll go over some of the equipment I chose and why.
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