wayne-03 Loc: Minnesota

I did a walk with this young lady this afternoon through the streets of downtown. We were doing candid shots as we went. All with on camera flash.
Camera: Canon 5D-III
Lens: Canon 85mm, f/1.8
Flash: Godox V860-II with Flip-it bounce card

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Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

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I think you did a excellent job with these. Using the bounce card on the flash added fill flash without the harshness often seen with direct flash. The shots are sharp with no evidence of camera shake. The 85mm lens has nice bokeh. The only thing is that there are distracting elements in the background of #3. The tan colored, horizontal beam kind of juts out from behind her head. The white object behind her head is distracting.

wayne-03 Loc: Minnesota

Thanks for your comments. Number one and number two were taken in the middle of downtown on the sunny side of the street. I was able to use the Sun as a backlight and fill the front with the flash. Number three was taken sitting down underneath a canopy in front of a small sidewalk café. The little flip-it card is fast becoming my favorite on camera flash modifier. It weighs less than 2 ounces and flips out-of-the-way when there is something else, a wall or ceiling to bounce off of. (http://www.dembflashproducts.com/products/flipit-models/) I tried a Magmod bounce for a while but it's quite heavy, about a pound and a half. It's bulky and takes up a lot more room in my camera bag and the weight of it keeps knocking my flash down.

kfcam Loc: Fort Myers Florida

kfcam Loc: Fort Myers Florida

How did you use the Flipit Card on your Flash? From the top or bottom of the flash. or from the sides of the flash.I am trying to use one of these correctly.

PaulG Loc: Western Australia

Hi Wayne. Firstly, I must say the lighting is pretty good. The model does look a rather tense though, indicated by an almost identical expression in each shot which, I assume, were taken some time and distance apart (expression looks a little forced). I assume she is relatively inexperienced as in having more serious photographs taken of her, so getting the subject to relax is paramount. There is wonderful potential here. Your images are basically head/shoulders so I would really concentrate on cropping here to focus on just that. Anything extraneous, eliminate - unwanted background clutter, large forward facing shoulders etc. I would suggest several sessions with the same person, if can be arranged, and I'm sure as she became more confident, you could come up with some really nice images.