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Lighting for the impromptu portrait of this little cutie\u00a0was simple – just an on-camera speedlight, bounced up and over my left shoulder.\u00a0 This gives soft directional light.\u00a0 A simple technique that\u00a0works every time when using on-camera flash indoors where there are light ceiling and walls around.
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My exposure settings was determined by the out-of-focus garden area outside, seen through a large window. It was over-cast, and therefore not super-bright. This meant that the bounce flash had a chance at balancing my exposure for my subject, with that of the background.<\/p>\n
This little girl’s mom asked me for a few quick portraits of the two of them.\u00a0 So to keep the background simple (and avoid the other guests and the food tables in the frame),\u00a0I had her hold her baby with the two of them standing in front of (but away from) a large window.\u00a0\u00a0 The green in the background are the out-of-focus trees outside.\u00a0 The yellow patch is a reflection of one of the tungsten spotlights in the ceiling inside the room.\u00a0 In composing this portrait, I purposely positioned the out of focus yellow highlight right there.<\/p>\n
This is when it all comes together for a simple and effective portrait\u00a0– the expression (or moment), deliberately<\/strong> combined with a complementing\u00a0background and beautiful light.\u00a0 And this is the point I wanted to make with this post .. look at your background. Move yourself and move your subject until your background, at the very least, isn’t distracting.\u00a0\u00a0 But better yet, look at the background and frame your subject such that the background\u00a0enhances the image.<\/p>\n <\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bounce flash – balancing foreground and background exposure Lighting for the impromptu portrait of this little cutie\u00a0was simple – just an on-camera speedlight, bounced up and over my left shoulder.\u00a0 This gives soft directional light.\u00a0 A simple technique that\u00a0works every time when using on-camera flash indoors where there are light ceiling and walls around. Settings: Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30372,"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":[203,111,15,22,33,42,1],"tags":[881],"yst_prominent_words":[1568,1493,1561,1842,6741,1337,1199,2215,1838,1852,6742,6743,1020,1554,1862,1841,1343,1843,1141,1392],"class_list":{"0":"post-637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-black-foamie-thing","8":"category-bounce-flash-photography","9":"category-flash-photography","10":"category-lighting","11":"category-portraits","12":"category-technique","13":"category-uncategorized","14":"tag-bounce-flash-photography","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48979,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/48979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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