Bouncing flash really IS effective even in huge rooms.
Mar 5, 2012 05:39:16 #
Check out this post by Neil Van Niekerk.
He's the "black foamie thing" guy and he's all about bouncing flash to get studio-like results
http://neilvn.com/tangents/2012/02/01/bounce-flash-photography-and-inverse-square-law/
He's the "black foamie thing" guy and he's all about bouncing flash to get studio-like results
http://neilvn.com/tangents/2012/02/01/bounce-flash-photography-and-inverse-square-law/
Mar 6, 2012 10:50:45 #
Nice take; like how the settings really brightened the shots. Bob, what does the "gelled 1/2 cts" reference?
Mar 6, 2012 10:57:16 #
HEART wrote:
Nice take; like how the settings really brightened the shots. Bob, what does the "gelled 1/2 cts" reference?
That refers to a gel that you put over the speedlight's lens that is (in strength) 1/2 of the strength of a 1 (full) value Color Temperature Orange.
It's just a shade of orange gel to match indoor tungsten lighting.
When you use a flash indoors and you have regular tungsten lightbulbs, your flash will look too white/blue and so you will have problems white balancing your shot.
Putting a gel on your flash is very common.
You can buy a gel "swatch book" from B&H or Adorama for about $3.00 or so and it has many useful gels.
You just attach them via velcro.
There are also ones to use to match fluorescent lighting.
You can find much more info at
www.strobist.blogspot.com
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Mar 6, 2012 11:23:58 #
Thanks! I do almost zero flash photography; but I've seen the reference to gels, and not sure how they worked. Appreciate the info!
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