Last week I was interviewed by fellow photographer/teacher Piet Van den Eynde for an upcoming e-book that contains interviews with a number of Belgian photographers about how they use off-camera flash. That e-book won’t be available for the next couple of weeks (I’ll let you know when it does). But Piet has written a couple of other interesting books. The one I’d like to highlight is “Making Light”.

Learning to light is a long and intensive process but when I started using off-camera flash the real challenge was to find information on how it works and what you need. These days, there’s almost too much information available for anyone who wants to get started in off-camera flash. The amount of information can be so overwhelming that it seems like lighting is only for rocket scientists. But hey, if I managed to learn off-camera flash, any 10 year old can. All you need is to get the basics sorted out. That’s why I’m doing my Speedlight Portrait Techniques 1 workshops (new dates will be announced soon). In his e-book Piet did a great job in focusing on the basics and explaining them well, illustrated with inspiring travel pictures.

For anyone who’s new to off-camera flash or feels like he’s missing some of the basics, I can really recommend this e-book. It’s available on the Craft & Vision site for the crazy price of 5 dollar. All the Craft & Vision e-books can also be bought (for the same price) from within their iPad app.

This e-book isn’t my first from Craft & Vision. I really like their e-book format. They are not full size books but go beyond what can be explained in a magazine article or blog post. I think the price is right and the layout is usually damned beautiful. When Piet interviewed me, he got me thinking of writing a couple of e-books myself. There are lots of subjects I would like to write about more extensively than would be practical for the blog and probably too short for a “real” book. So I might see if I can find some time in the near future to write a test e-book. If you have any ideas, hit me in the comments.