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06/05/2004 01:07:25 AM · #1 |
| Does anyone have any tips. This is my first time using this. I tried it out in a wedding rehearsal last night. It seems to give off a white glow in the middle of the picture, and it doesn't do squat if the the scene is far away. do i have to point the flash up or straight on. need help. the wedding is tomorrow |
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06/05/2004 01:23:53 AM · #2 |
| An omnibounce wouldn't do a lot of good in a large room. There is nothing close enough to the flash for the light to bounce off of. In a large room, the only benefit of the omnibounce would be to tone down the power of the flash. I would suggest shooting without it. A wedding is not a great place to experiment with equipment. |
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06/05/2004 01:25:30 AM · #3 |
thanks. i'm not the official photographer. thank God. i'm just a guest and there to practice. so when would be a good situation to use the omnibounceOriginally posted by jmsetzler:
An omnibounce wouldn't do a lot of good in a large room. There is nothing close enough to the flash for the light to bounce off of. In a large room, the only benefit of the omnibounce would be to tone down the power of the flash. I would suggest shooting without it. A wedding is not a great place to experiment with equipment. |
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06/05/2004 01:39:15 AM · #4 |
For me, the omni bounce seems to work best in tight quarters situations. What this $17 piece of plastic does is to allow the light to escape from the flash head in multiple directions. This light that leaves the camera at different angles 'bounces' off walls and ceilings to illuminate your subject from different directions. The purpose in this is to reduce some of the shadow effects that are created by the flash.
In a large room where the walls and ceiling are not as close together, all you are doing by using the omnibounce is reducing the guide number of your flash by a factor of about 2.5x. Your Canon G5 should be using the E-TTL metering with your flash. I'm assuming you are using either a 420ex or a 550ex with it. Using the omnibounce in a situation like you describe here will soften the flash shadow effects, but you may still end up with underexposed photos if you are not close enough to your subjects. |
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06/05/2004 07:33:41 AM · #5 |
| thanks my friend. i'll take that into conseration. |
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