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Chatting with other photographers at the recent WPS convention in Chapel Hill, NC, I was again struck by how there are so many different ways of approaching lighting. In this case, lighting at the wedding reception.\u00a0The one photographer I was chatting to, set up multiple speedlights around the reception room, and then controls which are fired, from his on-camera Master speedlight. \u00a0Very impressive.<\/p>\n
In recent years, the wedding reception venues where I’ve shot on the East Coast of the USA, have moved away from being the dark-hole large rooms, by adding up-lighting, and making the places generally more vibrant and colorful. Coupled with the astonishing high-ISO capability of the last two generations of cameras, I really haven’t felt the need to set up additional lighting to lift the general light levels, like I would have in the past, as described in this article: Here is a recent wedding at the same venue as the above link … where I was able to effectively light the entire place with just one<\/strong>\u00a0on-camera speed light. By using a higher ISO, and carefully bouncing my flash, I could get away with a much simpler set-up of a single on-camera speedlight.<\/p>\n Here’s an example of a recent wedding, where the reception was in a glass-house style conservatory. By shooting against the DJ’s lights, I was able to NOT have a dark background, but something colorful instead.<\/p>\n This is a simple technique that I constantly use when photographing the wedding reception<\/a> – I look for brighter areas in the background, and *I* move around so that I can place my subjects against that. The colors and shapes in the background helps place my subjects in context of the wedding … as opposed to a dark background that they blend into.<\/p>\n It means I do move around and look at my backgrounds specifically.<\/p>\n Now, about the area where I bounced my flash … a glass house with white structures.\u00a0For the two photos above, I was bouncing my flash off the entire area\u00a0that you see there in the center of the image …<\/span><\/p>\n … looking towards this direction.<\/p>\n At first it doesn’t seem realistic to get enough light from a single on-camera speedlight there just by bouncing it behind me … but with a high enough ISO, it is quite feasible, and actually looks very good. 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\n– wedding photography: TTL flash with off-camera manual flash<\/a><\/p>\n
\n– bounce flash photography & the inverse square law<\/a><\/p>\n
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