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11/23/2011 10:10:59 AM · #1 |
This is an open SC for everyone. and here are the rules...
Use a hot-shoe flash (attached top of your camera) and take photos only bouncing the flash from side walls only (not from ceiling). Don't aim the flash to your subject even with the flash's white bouncer card built in. Challenge is to use any wall that you can use as a diffuser. You can use reflectors to lit other side of your subject.
I bet some of you don't know how to use this method to take excellent photos, which I use often :-) No external flash, umbrellas or soft-boxes needed. Down side, you will need to use manual option on your flash and power it up a little bit, depending on the distance of the wall you're going to use :)
Edit: Let's add a rule here and adjust, you may actually use off-camera flash (not a strobe light though) to create your images.
Message edited by author 2011-11-29 10:11:45. |
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11/23/2011 10:13:27 AM · #2 |
| This sounds interesting but I don't quite understand how it works... |
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11/23/2011 10:17:24 AM · #3 |
Just curious, why no allowance for using a ceiling, or a bounce card (to create a catchlight)?
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11/23/2011 10:27:06 AM · #4 |
I checked the Google, couldn't find anything fast, so I created my own diagram here...
Basically by moving the flash away from your subject, and bounce the light from the wall to lid your subject is the goal here.
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11/23/2011 10:29:24 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Just curious, why no allowance for using a ceiling, or a bounce card (to create a catchlight)? |
With the angle of your flash, there will be some leak for the catch light. So, I would not aim the flash behind the camera, but little forward, which should also give catch light. |
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11/24/2011 10:03:45 PM · #6 |
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11/29/2011 03:22:25 AM · #7 |
This is just a coincidence, Frank Doorhof just started a blog (actually a guest) but it's about the bounce flash... Now, this one little different, using a regular camera flash externally... Let's add a rule here and adjust to this, you may actually use off-camera flash (not a strobe light though) to create your images.
This should be fun if anyone interested in.
PS: You don't need a hot model with tight red leather :) |
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11/29/2011 09:37:36 AM · #8 |
You might want to edit your original post to reflect the new rule.
Your example is a great image illustrating this technique. |
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11/29/2011 12:40:40 PM · #9 |
| I have been shooting a lot with my Bees and my speedlites have been neglected. This could be fun plus it is much easier to do self portraits at different locations with just using a flash. Count me in. |
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11/29/2011 01:27:29 PM · #10 |
sounds fun but I don't have a flash (yet)
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11/29/2011 01:37:26 PM · #11 |
| Just jump in whenever you guys can. It's an open SC for everyone, no time limit :) |
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11/29/2011 05:28:53 PM · #12 |
| Put my Bees up and pulled out the speedlite tonight, gotta say it was fun and I think my movember entry may change now. Thanks for the idea on this. |
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11/29/2011 07:51:23 PM · #13 |
| Can previous photos taken be submitted or just new ones? |
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11/29/2011 08:48:23 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by PGerst:
Can previous photos taken be submitted or just new ones? |
Anytime anywhere... as long as you used a flash (not strobes) and bounced the light from sidewalls... :) |
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11/29/2011 09:14:08 PM · #15 |
Took this 2 years ago:
Now, recalling where I took this, I'm > 95 % sure this was bounced off the wall.
Ack: I thought I had more....looks like I'll have to go shoot now. :) I looked at some others but they were obvious that the bounce was from the ceiling....although, many of them were bounced to the left or right and not straight up. In other words, I wasn't shooting off a wall, but didn't want the lower shadows, so I aimed the flash down 45° and bounced off the ceiling further away...doesn't count though. :)
Message edited by author 2011-11-29 21:23:46. |
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11/30/2011 07:59:11 AM · #16 |
Wall bounced flash, still got catch lights on her eyes :)
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12/08/2011 07:02:07 AM · #17 |
Well I didn't bounce it off a wall but I did use just one flash and bounced it off the table. Thanks for giving me the idea, it fared pretty well in the challenge.
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