Walls
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| The wall behind:Bounce your flash light off a wall behind you will increase the relative size of the light and provide a very soft frontal illumination on your subject |
The right distance: Make sure that you keep enough distance from the wall. Getting too close reduces the size of the bounced light and lessens the softtening effect, increasing contrast and shadows, getting back to a similar effect to direct flash. |
Directional light. Just turning your camera around creates a totally different effect. Using a lateral wall provides directional side light |
Outdoor Techniques
Your portable bounce surface
This set of images show the use of a reflector to create your own bounce surface when none is available. This is a great option to soften your flash light in outdoor locations or when the surrounding structure in an indoor location are too far away. (Think about a ballroom, for example)
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| direct flash |
bounce flash off a hand held reflector |
Use the environment
Be creative!. White sand is a great reflector and you can use it to create a big bounce surface on the beach. It also introduces a pleasant warmth to the otherwise coldish flash light.
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direct flash |
bounced flash off the sand surface |
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| Use the swivel feature of the flash head to point it downwards to the sand in front of your subject |
Really great tips. This is the stuff that separates the pros from the amatuers.
Great tips!!!!