Links to Web Sites
"Lighting School"
A very useful site providing some excellent lessons on the use of Flash. Loads of examples including diagrams of layouts, photographs showing the effects of changing lighting sources and positions. Well worth a long read if you are starting out in flash or studio work
Lighting Ratios and Incident Metering Demystified
A useful site with some excellent guidance on how to use a light metre
Chuck Gardner's Photo Class
Class notes from one-day photography class Chuck Gardner taught in Manila in 2001.
Some Basic Elements of Photography by Chuck Doswell
A really good site outlining some of the basics of photography including what exactly the Reciprocity Law is!
http://webchat.chatsystems.com/~doswell/Outdoor_Images/Photo_Basics.html
Advanced Photography Skills by Chuck Doswell
Another site by Chuck Doswell this time outlining some advance photography skills. Well worth the visit!
http://webchat.chatsystems.com/~doswell/Outdoor_Images/Photo_skills.html
A Better Bounce Card
A great tutorial on how to make an inexpensive but very effective 'bounce card' for your flash gun