Zack Arias • ONELIGHT 2.0 • March 31, 2014

RichNY wrote in post #16836820
You are not wrong. The content and accuracy were good but from an education standpoint, Zack's explanations were bad. Really bad. Rather than figuring out a coherent way to present certain material he prefaces teaching with a disclaimer of how boring the material is going to be. Zack's original ONELIGHT was much better in my opinion.

Thanks. Makes me feel better about missing out on the pre-order deal and not wanting to buy it at full price now.

RichNY wrote in post #16836820
You are not wrong. The content and accuracy were good but from an education standpoint, Zack's explanations were bad. Really bad. Rather than figuring out a coherent way to present certain material he prefaces teaching with a disclaimer of how boring the material is going to be. Zack's original ONELIGHT was much better in my opinion.

Hmmm, Interesting observation. I'll have to go back and have another look.
That is one risk, being familiar with the concepts that are being presented, to make subconscious adjustments for the instructor.

RichNY wrote in post #16836820
You are not wrong. The content and accuracy were good but from an education standpoint, Zack's explanations were bad. Really bad. Rather than figuring out a coherent way to present certain material he prefaces teaching with a disclaimer of how boring the material is going to be. Zack's original ONELIGHT was much better in my opinion.

See, I appreciated his blatant honesty with admitting that the technical details are boring. While I was in college, I know I had greater respect for professors who prefaced a micro-biology course that they knew it was boring, that they would try to make it entertaining, but that it was important to pay attention.

A lot of people zone out for technical details, but it is very important stuff. I already knew the technical details before I watched this video, but I still paid attention, and at least got a new perspective on things I already knew.

I thought he did a fantastic job explaining concepts.

RichNY wrote in post #16836820
You are not wrong. The content and accuracy were good but from an education standpoint, Zack's explanations were bad. Really bad. Rather than figuring out a coherent way to present certain material he prefaces teaching with a disclaimer of how boring the material is going to be. Zack's original ONELIGHT was much better in my opinion.

...I don't think I could disagree with an opinion more strongly than this. I don't think I've seen the subject of flash and lighting explained better than what Zack has done here. Working with added light is actually very complicated. I've been in class with several other people who never understood the fundamentals with days worth of instruction. Because so many things overlap many instructors teach one thing and forget the other: or try and teach everything at once and end up confusing concepts.

What Zack did well was firstly to "chunk" the information. The video was divided into six sections, which in turn were divided into smaller chunks. ISO was demonstrated: and the effect of ISO was shown physically on the images he produced. And he worked his way slowly, but deliberately through each "chunk", explaining what aperture was and did, then showing us what would happen when the aperture was changed. Rinse/repeat with shutter speed/flash power, etc. Then when all of that is over, start to show the "overlap" between the different concepts.

This is how I teach people flash. And it works well for me, and as I've said I've never seen it done better than Zack on this video. Can you be specific about what you think he did so badly and why you don't think it was coherent? And can you point out some examples of people who teach the concepts better?

I have no idea what RichNY is talking about. Zack's explanations are as clear as it gets in ONELIGHT 2.0 .
And I have no problem that he says that the science of exposure is kind of boring. Zack actually says it in a way which is motivating...it's more like 'ok guys, this part is kind of boring but you NEED to learn this. You can't be a good photographer without knowing this stuff so stick with me.'

I'll have to agree that the explanations were solid and clear. I see no issues with the video being $50, $75, or $125. Still worth it, still has the pertinent info, and still covers what needs to be covered.

Does anyone have the link to buy one light 2??

http://dedpxl.com/

Just letting you guys know that you get a 25% discount when subscribing to the Tiffinbox newsletter (I believe this deal expires on May 31st). I quote:

That said, Zack has kindly offered Tiffinbox newsletter subscribers a special and significant discount through May 31st. Yes, you have to subscribe to the newsletter (top right blue box is where you need to punch in your email address) to receive and use this code. If you miss the first newsletter with the special code, don’t fret. Subsequent email blasts will carry this special code. This is the first of many exclusive offers that I will be bringing my subscribers.

All this for $75? Wow! (subscribe to my newsletter in the top right blue box to receive a special time-limited 25% discount code only for my subscribers).

Source: Tiffinbox

By the way, I can acknowledge that the 25% discount trick I listed above is working, since I've bought it for 56,25$ a few hours ago. Already downloading the files.

Yep, working.

Okay. I'll bite.

Code worked for me too.

I think my download pissed off Comcast. My internet is very slow today after the 16 gig of downloads.

jocau wrote in post #16853000
Just letting you guys know that you get a 25% discount when subscribing to the Tiffinbox newsletter (I believe this deal expires on May 31st). I quote:

Thanks for this, I ordered and am starting the downloads now.