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Hey everybody, welcome into another episode of photo taco on the

Improved Photography Network.

I'm your host Jeff Harmon. Thanks so much for spending a few minutes of your day with me.

You're going to have to forgive me, have a bit of a cold,

been feeling under the weather for about a week now. And so my voice doesn't sound quite like normal,

and I hope I can edit out all of the coughing in the episode. Hopefully it'll end up be okay. All right, in this

episode I'm going to answer a question from a great listener named Jose Lopez.

He asked the question quite a while ago and he said I've primarily been taking photos of landscapes, events, and other natural light subjects, but recently wanted to do more photography where a flash would be beneficial.

I've watched the improved photography

tutorials and spent hours looking online at YouTube and I find that it's a bit

overwhelming and I've purchased two YN 560 flashes after reviewing the recommended gear page at improved photography.

And I started to look into light modifiers.

That's where I'm starting to get a bit overwhelmed.

I got a small soft box, a five and one reflect a shoot through umbrella and an inexpensive light sphere clone and I'm not sure what the best settings are to use for aperture, shutter speed and I so since the YN five 60s are manual flashes. A lot of chimping to see if I got it even

close and I was hoping you might be able to dive into the topic from a hobbyist standpoint and point me in the right

direction. I'm sure I'm not the first person to be a bit

intimidated by flashes. Jose, thank you so much for your question. And the first

thing that I wanted to do here is reassure you you are far from the first person who has felt that way.

In fact, I picked Jose's question because he included in it a lot of the elements I wanted to go through and

talking about how to get started with flash photography, but I have hundreds of other

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