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This photo of Precious, a model at a photography workshop<\/a>,\u00a0was taken during part of the practical session where\u00a0emphasis was placed on getting soft directional light from an on-camera speedlight<\/a>.\u00a0 The trick here is to absolutely have no <\/strong>hint of light coming from the camera’s\u00a0view-point.\u00a0 To do this, I once again used\u00a0the Black Foamie Thing<\/a>\u00a0 to control the light from my on-camera speedlight, shielding the light from the flash. I pointed my speedlight 90′ to my left,\u00a0 so that the light\u00a0reflected back towards our model\u00a0from that direction, to give this striking portrait.<\/p>\n In other words, to get that kind of directional quality to the light from my on-camera flash<\/a>, I\u00a0bounce my flash into the direction that I want the light to come from.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n While the camera settings are: 1\/250th @ f3.2 @ 800 ISO, and lens was zoomed to 45mm, these\u00a0specific settings are largely irrelevant. Since I shot this with TTL flash<\/a>, the camera and flash will follow whatever I set my camera to.<\/p>\n I used a wide aperture, since I normally work at a wide-ish aperture when shooting a portrait. The shutter speed there is very high, because I specifically wanted to show the attendees at\u00a0the photography workshop<\/a>\u00a0that what they see on my camera\u2019s LCD, is all flash. No available light. So that was purposely set so high. Normally I would have my shutter speed a little lower to allow some available light in<\/a>.<\/p>\n I chose a relatively high ISO – 800 ISO – because I was bouncing flash into a fairly big area \u2013 an unused business office space. But this isn’t that high an ISO any more on modern digital cameras.<\/p>\n My FEC was dialed a little down, because in my experience, the D3 with the SB-900 has a tendency to over-expose TTL flash. So -0.7EV is my usual starting point for a photo when the flash is a dominant light source.<\/p>\n For any other camera make and model, the FEC would\u2019ve been slightly different. For most cameras, it would be around 0EV or +0.3 EV. Whatever it is, it is something you need to determine for your own camera by playing around with it and picking up experience with how your own camera and speedlight interact.<\/p>\n Regarding whether the zoom head would affect your TTL flash exposure .. it shouldn\u2019t. TTL flash exposure is measured via a pre-flash that the speedlight emits before the main exposure \u2026 and the camera meters this pre-flash and makes the exposure decision.<\/p>\n There was no specific surface that I bounced the light off. I just pointed my speedlight into the rest of the area, and enough light bounced back from the walls, windows, pillars and part of the ceiling. The surfaces were fairly neutral. No color casts. The pillars were painted grey.<\/p>\n My distance to my subject? Not that far .. the focal length was 44mm on a full-frame camera, and the image is un-cropped.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a big difference in approach in using that piece of black foam to FLAG the light, as opposed to using something white to bounce the flash off.<\/p>\n With the flag, the area that I am bouncing my flash off, becomes my light source. Which in effect means my light is off-camera. With that bounce device attached to the flash, the light is coming from the camera\u2019s point of view again, giving entirely different results.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n On-camera bounce flash for natural looking light This photo of Precious, a model at a photography workshop,\u00a0was taken during part of the practical session where\u00a0emphasis was placed on getting soft directional light from an on-camera speedlight.\u00a0 The trick here is to absolutely have no hint of light coming from the camera’s\u00a0view-point.\u00a0 To do this, I Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[111,15],"tags":[670,407],"yst_prominent_words":[2414,1134,1871,1863,1859,1845,1844,1842,1850,1872,1864,1199,1847,9805,1838,1851,1852,9808,1415,4188],"class_list":{"0":"post-1008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bounce-flash-photography","8":"category-flash-photography","9":"tag-bounce-flash-photography-example","10":"tag-on-camera-bounce-flash","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48976,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/48976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Camera settings & photo gear\u00a0used (and equivalents)<\/h2>\n
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On-camera flash modifier – the black foamie thing<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\tI use the black foamie thing (BFT) as a truly inexpensive flash modifier to flag my on-camera flash to give me lighting indoors that truly look nothing like on-camera flash.The piece of foam<\/strong><\/a> (Amazon<\/em>), can be ordered via this link. I cut the sheet into smaller pieces.
The BFT is held in position by two hair bands<\/strong><\/a> (Amazon<\/em>), and the BFT is usually placed on the under-side<\/strong> of the flash-head.
The linked articles will give clearer instruction, especially the video clip on using the black foamie thing<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/p>\nRelated articles<\/h2>\n
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