September 13, 2006
bouncing flash behind me – what am I bouncing off?
I’ve had a fair number of people writing in to tell me that they don’t quite understand what I am bouncing the flash off when I bounce behind me into an open room.
What is happening there, is that I am usually at a wide f-stop and a fairly high iso – something like f2.8 and 800 iso. This usually means that ANY light that bounces back from various objects in a room, will register in the image. The light from the strobe bounces back from furniture, other objects, part of the ceiling, some of the walls to the side. You’re in effect just flooding the entire place with light from your strobe – and at f2.8 it will register. Obviously it depends on the size of the room, etc. But just try it. :-)
Especially when you are using flash to augment the available light – you simply don’t need a lot of flash to have some effect.
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September 8, 2006
I’ve had a number of email queries about using wireless TTL flash with the D70. So even though the D70 manual (p.150-151) is quite thorough on this, I think that the abundance of information might be overwhelming to someone who wants to set it up the first time.
I’m offering this as a quickie guide to getting wireless i-TTL flash going on your D70, even though there is no information here that isn’t clearly explained in the manual.
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September 7, 2006
A second article that I wrote for Rangefinder – the official magazine of WPPI – appeared in their September ‘06 issue. And of course I am really proud of this. For me it’s quite an honour to appear alongside the best in the industry, in one of the premier photography trade publications. (The previous article appeared in their April ‘06 issue.)
This article first appeared on my PlanetNeil website under the same title – Finding the Light. The topic is on using lighting where the conditions aren’t ideal. Even though the tone of the article is tongue-in-the-cheek, it will hopefully be informative, and maybe even inspire other photographers looking for ideas on using photographic lighting.
Here is what the opening page looked like.
(To read the article, click on the link above.)
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Gavin Seim is the host of a weekly podcast on various photography topics – The Pro Photography Show – and for his show last week (episode #9) he had kindly invited me as the guest host. The topics mostly centered around the webpages on the PlanetNeil website where I explain various techniques to improve flash photography. Gavin, thanks! It was an interesting experience. :)
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