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My favorite image from a Bar Mitzvah party that I photographed. \u00a0It is one from a series of candid (or semi-candid) portraits of various guests and their kids at the party. \u00a0Aside from the obvious photographs that need to be taken during these kinds of events, I also try and grab more candid images, and for these a telephoto zoom (70-200mm f2.8) works really well.<\/p>\n
By going wide open on this lens, you can really isolate your subject .. and also draw in more of the available light. \u00a0In this case the background is a mixture of out-of-focus balloons and the DJ’s lights and stuff. The best of these images are usually those where I am fortunate in getting a nice expression .. while still being able to position myself so that the background is complementary or interesting.<\/p>\n
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My settings were chosen such that enough of the background shows. \u00a0Lighting is quite simple as usual, and was just one on-camera speedlight, flagged with the black foamie thing<\/a> to give directional light on this boy’s face. \u00a0I did have a 1\/2 CTS gel on my speedlight<\/a> to help match it with the tungsten lighting in the reception venue. \u00a0As such my white balance was set to 3700K. \u00a0As an aside, that image is straight out of ACR with no further adjustments from my usual defaults for the RAW file. \u00a0I did no editing in Photoshop to it.<\/p>\n And there you have it: a quick semi-candid portrait with simple, yet effective, lighting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since I frequently gel my flashguns to turn the WB of my flash much warmer (usually for \u00a0Incandescent light),\u00a0I use these gels that I cut up and\u00a0<\/span>tape to the top of my speedlight\u2019s head<\/a>. One of these sheets (which aren\u2019t expensive), will give you a lifetime supply of these filters. For me, these gels are an\u00a0invaluable part of flash photography.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tape the gels down on your lens hood<\/a>\u00a0when not in use.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shooting candid portrait at events, with bounce flash My favorite image from a Bar Mitzvah party that I photographed. \u00a0It is one from a series of candid (or semi-candid) portraits of various guests and their kids at the party. \u00a0Aside from the obvious photographs that need to be taken during these kinds of events, I Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30256,"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":[111,15,33],"tags":[616],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1793","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":"category-portraits","10":"tag-bounce-flash-portraits","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793"}],"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=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42276,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/42276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gelling your flash<\/h2>\n
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