Flash 101 | Journey into the Sun

[TravisM]

Yer daughter trying out for little house on the prairie ?

[TravisM]

One thing Craig is that you might pick up some kind of flash diffuser.
Like a lumiquest maybe even one of those little jobs that go over the pop up.

good example inthe shot above the blow up ones.

I am no expert but I had much better success after I dealt with the bare flash ,bare flash bounce.

Then  for fun get some colored gel filters for your big flash and put behind in the background.

[cenelson]

Kid was a server in her choir's Madrigal feast tonight. Cute outfit.

I do have Lumiquest boxes, two of them. When I'm bouncing, I don't want to use the softboxes. Wouldn't help much. Bouncing the flash off nearby objects softens the flash more than using the boxes would.

Rick, which Mamiya is that on the chair?

C.

[cenelson]

Also, I do believe this must have been shot at 1600, not 200 as originally reported.

[Byuphoto]

C220 picked it up just about a month ago. Almost mint

[cenelson]

The flash deal is really beginning to click in my head. The following were grabs of my pal John's wife and infant daughter.

Flash set to manual, zoomed to 24mm, set for f4, power at 1/8th, head at 60-degrees with white-card extended.

Camera, AF and shot in aperture priority mode which means little since it synched at 1/60th for all shots, I believe. Aperture set to f4.5 initially, but probably varied as I zoomed while shooting. No biggee.


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[josphy]

head at 60-degrees with white-card extended.

Was that bouncing off the ceiling then?  Or just using your white card as a reflector to broaden the light source?

If it was off the ceiling, I'm surprised it didn't illuminate more of the background.  The best results I've had have been bouncing off the ceiling (when it's low/light colored enough) but then also using a little white note card to reflect some of the light directly forward to fill in the shadows/eye sockets.

Anyway I mention that because I just notice the backgrounds going near-black.  Could always try 1/30th sec to pick up a little more ambient light if bouncing the flash won't work.

[cenelson]

Card-out, head at 60-degrees. I was very close to them, didn't want to blow them out. I was shooting AE, so the camera selected the synch. I probably should have gone to M-mode and dragged it a bit, but wasn't thinking about much beyond grabbing a few quickies of young Abigail.

ASA200, btw.

C.

[Kin Lau]

If I'm that close I'd usually use my Lightsphere, but otherwise, I'd just shoot the flash straight up, card out for a little fill and catchlight in the eyes, and leave the flash at the normal (35mm) setting unless it's very low ceiling.

Looks good in either case. I find that if you're quite close, angling the flash might put most of the bounce behind the person instead of on them.