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When working with a couple during the romantic portrait session, there’s the need to bring variety to the images – not just in posing<\/a> and composition<\/a>, but also in terms of light & lighting. For this reason I use a variety – available light; video light<\/a>;\u00a0off-camera flash and on-camera bounce flash. I really like using on-camera bounce flash<\/a> since it is such an easy light source to use, always at hand. There was a recent article on using bounce flash outdoors<\/a>, but I’d like to add another example where I used bounce flash outside a wedding venue. Let’s look at the sequence of images …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The soft evening light was just perfect. Nothing extra needed. The light was fairly low, so I used 1600 ISO. Not a problem with the Nikon D3s.<\/p>\n The light was getting low, but working with the direction of the light, there was enough light to comfortably get by.<\/p>\n Then I had the idea of shooting from an elevated point of view and using the lines there as a compositional device. Standing on a chair, I was able to get that point of view … but I also made sure that were I placed myself, I would be able to bounce flash up against the walls and ceiling of the entrance way.<\/p>\n Here you can get a better idea of how high the ceiling was, and where I bounced my flash off.<\/p>\n Since the light was too low shooting in that direction, I didn’t particularly meter for the ambient light, but rather chose my settings so that they made sense … ie, enough depth-of-field and a not-too-low shutter speed. I needed to hand-hold a non-stabilized lens, and flash might not entirely freeze my movement there, standing on the cushioned chair.<\/p>\n Here is one of the final images in this sequence … and another as a comparison where I disabled the flash so that you can see what the ambient levels where at.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since the couple had no idea of what I was aiming for, it helps in showing the result. I do this during the session – it helps reinforce their confidence in me. But I don’t do this with such frequency that it holds up the flow of the photography. It is important to keep the energy level up.<\/p>\n The image at the top of the page then is one of a sequence … which is one of a number of sequences I took. \u00a0All of this with the motive to give the couple an interesting variety to their photographs. Using different lighting sources and styles definitely helps with that. 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