{"id":18304,"date":"2013-12-11T19:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T23:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=18304"},"modified":"2018-08-27T21:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T01:32:23","slug":"wedding-photography-bounce-flash-indoors-limo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wedding-photography-bounce-flash-indoors-limo\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding photography: Bounce flash indoors \u2026 in the limo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wedding photography: Bounce flash “indoors” \u2026 in the limo<\/h1>\n

This is a reminder that when you have a high-contrast situation such as when photographing the bride and groom inside the limo – then using on-camera bounce flash is your easiest way to control the lighting. Simply bounce your flash behind you into the limo. Even with the dark interior and fittings inside a limo, enough light should spill back to lift the shadow detail.<\/p>\n

The trick here of course is to expose correctly for the ambient light, if possible. With the camera settings then dictated by the ambient light coming through the window, simply use TTL flash to give enough fill-light. Dial down the FEC if necessary.<\/p>\n

If you look closely at this image, you’ll see the slight trace of the shadow from the flash – this is because, even though I bounced the flash upwards behind me, I hit the ceiling of the limo and with it so close to the flash, it created a secondary smaller light source instead of just the larger bounced light source. Even with that, the effect looks quite natural, and the reduced contrast certainly did help post-processing.<\/p>\n

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Camera settings and photo gear\u00a0(or equivalents) used<\/h2>\n