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The expressive trumpet player in the band at a wedding – a simple portrait of this musician, sweetened with some bounce flash.\u00a0The light on his face, is by now perhaps predictably, on-camera bounce flash<\/a> with the black foamie thing<\/a>. \u00a0Looking at the light pattern on his face, you’ll see there was no direct flash of any kind.<\/p>\n In comparison, here are a few other images. \u00a0One with no flash, so we can see the effect of the bounce flash. \u00a0Another image with just available light; and another image where I was able to use the light from the videographer’s camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The same shot as at the top, but with the flash disabled. This is the available light as it appeared\u00a0with the camera settings where I had used bounce flash\u00a0– for comparison so\u00a0you can see the effect the on-camera bounce flash had. <\/p>\n Here is the same image, but with available light only, using the existing light in the room. \u00a0Now we’re really pushing the limits, and a wide aperture on the 85mm lens, and the highest ISO on the camera (Nikon D3) that I’m still comfortable using. \u00a0The shutter speed is also fairly slow, and I had to take a series of images to get a few that are sharp enough. Despite the popular belief, 1\/60th just isn’t fast enough to hand-hold<\/a>, and isn’t fast enough either when your subject is moving. \u00a0And no, a \u00a0third stop jump to 1\/80th wouldn’t have magically solved that problem either, for those who are thinking of a shutter speed in relation to the focal length.<\/p>\n I changed the WB in raw post-processing to give me the most pleasant tones.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When the videographer’s light came into play, I changed my settings\u00a0again: I\u00a0had to pull down the exposure by 0.6 stops in raw post-production.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I wanted to distill the essence of what we, as photographers, work with – light! Before we can truly grasp on-camera flash and off-camera flash, and really, any kind of photography, we have to be aware of the direction and quality of light. We need to observe the light that we have, and then decide how best to use it, or enhance it.<\/p>\n With this book, I try my best to share those \u201caha!\u201d moments with you, and I do believe this book can make a difference to your photography.<\/p>\n The book is available on\u00a0Amazon USA<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Amazon UK<\/a><\/strong>, or can be ordered through Barnes & Nobles and other bookstores. The book\u00a0is also available on the Apple iBook Store, as well as Amazon Kindle.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div> <\/p>\n So here are three different ways to use light to photograph an impromptu portrait – in this case, of a portrait of a band member playing at a wedding.<\/p>\n Personally, I like on-camera bounce flash here for allowing me control over my camera settings – i.e., less risk of camera shake, and I have more say in what the aperture and ISO should be. And the image looks quite natural – there’s no indication that on-camera flash was used. But\u00a0in a way, there’s no wrong or right – as long as it looks good. And as long as you are able to consistently deliver the goods. 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\n1\/100 @ f1.4 @ 3200 ISO\u00a0 \/\/ \u00a0no flash<\/p>\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 on bounce flash photography<\/h2>\n
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