Hey guys, I'm Matt from Blue flash. And thank you so much for checking out this video. I'm really excited to share with you everything that I know about lighting. And I want to bring you to the point where you can command the light and make it work for you in any situation. And it doesn't matter if you know nothing about lighting. You don't even know where to attack the flash, how to turn it on anything we're going to take you from zero to knowing exactly what to do and how to do it.

So I want to give you a little background about me so you know where I'm coming from. So I own and operate blue flash and we are a photo studio based in Rhode Island. We started back in 2009. And since then have added to our team 15 other people. We do a lot of weddings, we do hundreds and hundreds of weddings, which is awesome. It's a lot of fun, fast paced, a lot of different dynamics.

It keeps us on on our toes, and we're always learning new things. But one really integral thing that we cannot do without his flashes and lighting, we find ourselves in a lot of dark situations, were putting the ISO up to 6400 and our aperture to 1.4 and the shutter speed down to one 15th. And just praying that the shot comes out without some motion, Blur and green and all that kind of thing. It's just not practical. So we decided to take the approach of learning how to light and learning how to do it really well and making a signature piece of what we offer to people. And if you look at our portfolio, hopefully that's reflected in there and you can see the types of things that we do.

All our wedding work can be found at Blue flash photography, calm. And then on the other side of everything, we do commercial work. So that's blue flash photography, comm slash commercial, and that consists of anything headshots, product shots, real estate, photos, anything like that, that has anything to do with a business. We photograph it and that is another piece of it that really requires an expert level of lighting. If you're going to take product photos, you absolutely need to light them properly, so that it can be looking it's best for your client. So we're going to go over all these things.

But we're going to start from the basics. We're going to start with what do you actually need in terms of gear to make this happen? And then the next step is, how do we turn this stuff on and put it together. And so we'll go through that getting it all set up and getting ready to go. And then the last piece of it, which probably the most important is, how to use it, and how to use it well. So we are going to walk through all these things.

We're going to take it one step at a time, and build on our knowledge and get to the point where you're ready to get out there. Start using flashes in your lighting and take your photography to the next level.