Features:

• Full 2½ hours of entertaining hands-on instruction
• Studio instruction from photographer Bob Krist on the properties of light and flash essentials
• Learn how to apply basic and advanced lighting techniques in real world settings with photojournalist and lighting expert Joe McNally

Product Description:

• A Hands-on Guide to Creative Lighting. Learn how to make light work for you with the power and versatility of the Nikon Creative Lighting System, featuring the SB-900, SB-800, SB-600 and SB-R200. Nikon Speedlights deliver the ability to turn an ordinary subject into a striking image or even into a stunning work of art. Bob Krist will lead you on a tour of lighting fundamentals and techniques in the studio, joined later by Joe McNally in the field. Watch and learn as the amazing potential of Nikon’s Creative Lighting system is unleashed in a variety of real–world shooting scenarios—from the Boston Ballet School to the charm of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Customer Ratings:

• Great video. Great to see the principles of flash photography illustrated. Sold me on the Nikon CLS system.
• Excellent guide for the Nikon Creative Lighting. I have being a Nikonian for over the last 5 years and I am a very creative and intuitive person. The photography is just a hobby for me but I consider myself an advance amateur. I wanted to get this DVD because I was feelling that I could get more of my Nikon flashes that I was getting. To my surprise I was right, the creative lighting system has no limits. Your limits are your creativity and of course your money. But this DVD shows you in a very simple maner how to get the perfect picture out of a situation and improve your results as a photographer. Once again thank you Nikkon for another good product
• Good but a little shallow. Agree with the above reviews: Nauseating music. Many helpful ideas and approaches, the creativity was inspiring. However to be thorough,to understand CLS, until one is really familiar with the system, one has to meter. Problems with CLS were not gone into, for example when my D200 A mode all comps at 0, popup is set commander or even with flash by cable and SB800 set remote or manual, @1/250, set aper at f16, 11, 8, 5.6 all are within 0.02 EV acc to Sekonic L308S (closer than that since there is a consistent +.01 difference, impressive!) But trying f4.5 consistently meters 4.05, and f1.8 is similarly low. The ambilight is the same, so it would be nice to have replaced the infomerical wrapup with OK, when we get an exposure problem here s my path to trace out the source on these immensely complex cameras. Rather than just dial in a flash foreground correction we need to understand why the meter differs from our settings. I didn t from this video. Automation is terrific but like liberty, needs eternal vigilance.
• positive flash. a well produced dvd about flash. off camera and using flash like it should be used. finally a way to use the commander mode to use off camera flash to your benefit.
• MUST HAVE FOR TTL FLASH USERS. This is a MUST HAVE DVD for anyone who has any of the TTL Flashes produced by Nikon. Hi-Tech and a great tutorial. 2 1/2 hours long but moves fast. Could have been more especially the part from McNally. Now I just need more SB-900 s. I did not know you could use the flip-flash on the camera as a master command module to drive other Nikon Flashes equipped to be driven as slaves. GREAT DVD. I would buy it again.

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• Understanding the Nikon Speedlight: SB-900, SB-800, SB-600
• Nikon Creative Lighting System Digital Field Guide
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• Nikon School DVD - Understanding Digital Photography