With a related article bounce flash outdoors with a reflector i showed some images from an event at a new york restaurant.
Bounce light off ceiling.
A recurring topic on tangents is how to bounce flash in pretty extreme situations.
This is the most trivial bounce of them all.
Bounce 1 off the ceiling.
Why bounce it and not point directly at my subject.
The ceiling will act as a huge reflector bouncing the light softly on your subject.
By default when i put a flash on my hot shoe i aim it straight up in the air so that i can bounce the light off of the ceiling.
It s especially effective with low white ceilings but it also works on taller off white ceilings too.
To do the ceiling bounce just tilt your flash to the ceiling or at a 75 degrees angle and take the picture.
Bouncing a flash off a ceiling.
Conversely this shot of a midnight harry potter fanatic was lit up into the ceiling behind me with the strobe set to 24mm.
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.
Allowing light to hit the ceiling and bounce downward creates a better effect than direct light from the front.
I intensely dislike direct hard on camera flash.
Because generally speaking direct bare.
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 above photo of the county sheriff had the flash set on 85mm bounced off of the ceiling near the subject.