{"id":1303,"date":"2009-07-20T04:11:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T08:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetneil.com\/tangents\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T22:51:07","slug":"fill-flash-bouncing-flash-outside-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/fill-flash-bouncing-flash-outside-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"bouncing flash off walls outdoors for fill-flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/flash\/Jenny-078-900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/flash\/Jenny-078.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>fill-flash outdoors by bouncing flash off walls<\/h1>\n<p>When I recently photographed one of my couples in Hoboken, we worked for a while in one of the colorful alleys.\u00a0 To lift the shadows a little bit, I used flash.\u00a0 However a softbox might have been overkill when just a touch of fill-flash is needed .. especially when there is a useful wall directly behind me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/flash\/Jenny-078-900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/flash\/Jenny-098.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stood next to the car, with the car to my left and the wall\u00a0directly behind me.\u00a0 This allowed me\u00a0some flexibility in moving around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My settings:\u00a0 1\/200th @ f4 @ 800 ISO\u00a0 and my flash was in TTL, and set around -2 EV.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can compare the effect with flash, and without flash:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/flash\/Jenny-115-900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/flash\/Jenny-115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/flash\/Jenny-116-default-900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/flash\/Jenny-116-default.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I boost the exposure of the non-flash photo by 1\/3rd of a stop the effect is fairly subtle when compared to image where there was that touch of flash added.\u00a0 But it does clean up the image a bit by opening up the shadows.\u00a0 I do prefer this, and it does help to make the image pop a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>So next time you&#8217;re photographing outside, look around you for suitable areas to bounce flash off for a subtle fill light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fill-flash outdoors by bouncing flash off walls When I recently photographed one of my couples in Hoboken, we worked for a while in one of the colorful alleys.\u00a0 To lift the shadows a little bit, I used flash.\u00a0 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