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Anonymous
Continued from>>65120
So, unless you're a) wearing a turban b) inside a hangar or outside c) using a vivtar 285HV on-camera (who knows why anyone would do this?), bounce your flash off the wall behind you, or to your right and left.
Benefits include: 1) soft, pleasing light. you're essentially lighting the whole room with an 8-foot soft box, or if you bounce it into a corner, a 4 foot parabolic umbrella. Remember, you're essentially turning your whole wall into a light source.
2) even lighting. Since the light is coming from about 6-10 feet behind the camera, you get much less pronounced light falloff.
3) Directional lighting. No matter how you bounce your light off the ceiling, it's still coming from directly above. If you swivel your lens 90 degrees to the left, then you get stronger lighting from the left. If you want lighting from the right, then you swivel to the right. You get the idea.
Drawbacks: 1) color cast. As someone already said, lulz raw. Easy fix in photoshop, harder to fix with film.
2) Decreased light output. Yes, you are losing light to falloff, bigger surface area, etc. But it's still the next best thing to just taking your camera off the hotshoe and triggering it with either a Pocket Wizard (not with this flash...) or with a proprietary infrared system (yes with this flash...)
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