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If you find the title of this article a touch intimidating, please stick around and watch the video. It is important to understand how The Inverse Square Law affects bounce flash photography, and creates a specific result where the background appears brighter<\/strong>\u00a0when the flash is bounced properly without on-camera flash modifiers. I know that is counter-intuitive, but that is what happens when you bounce your bare flash behind you instead of using a light modifier on your flash. The accompanying video, linked to below, explains this in hopefully clear, easy to understand ways.<\/p>\n The photograph at the top is typical of the results. Now this might not be the way you like your wedding receptions to be lit. Perhaps you prefer cross-lighting the dance floor with multiple flashes. That’s cool too. Working with just the single on-camera bounce flash gives really good results with no cross shadows and awkward shadows. Every photo works with the light fall-off pretty even from front to deeper into the scene.<\/p>\n The key to this is that the light source isn’t your flash on your camera — instead it is the wall and ceiling far behind you. That is your light source now, and the light fall-off will be much more gradual. This is explained in the video. In explaining the way that the inverse square law is implicated, it is only necessary to understand that you lose two stops of light every time you double your distance from your light source. Simple. An easy enough rule to remember. From there on, everything will fall into place.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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