Conversely this shot of a midnight harry potter fanatic was lit up into the ceiling behind me with the strobe set to 24mm.
Bounce light off ceiling.
The objective is to bounce light to soften it before it hits your subject.
Bounce 1 off the ceiling.
With a related article bounce flash outdoors with a reflector i showed some images from an event at a new york restaurant.
I intensely dislike direct hard on camera flash.
It s especially effective with low white ceilings but it also works on taller off white ceilings too.
Just pop the flash and eyeball the hotspot on your bounce surface.
Why bounce it and not point directly at my subject.
A recurring topic on tangents is how to bounce flash in pretty extreme situations.
Bounce flash is when rather than firing your flashgun pointing directly at your subject you point it elsewhere typically up or at an angle bouncing off a wall or ceiling.
Because generally speaking direct bare.
The above photo of the county sheriff had the flash set on 85mm bounced off of the ceiling near the subject.
When you don t have the luxury of time to setup your hotshoe flash off cam and you re at an event shooting portraits you can always bounce its light off the ceiling.
Bounce flash off a dark ceiling.
The ceiling will act as a huge reflector bouncing the light softly on your subject.
To do the ceiling bounce just tilt your flash to the ceiling or at a 75 degrees angle and take the picture.
Note the fall off through the back of the frame.
This is the most trivial bounce of them all.