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hi I'm Tony Northrup and for Chapter three of my book stunning digital

Hi, I'm Tony Northrup and for chapter 3 of my book stunning digital photography

photography I'd like to show you how you can use a bounce flash to improve your

I'd like to show you how you can use a bounce flash to improve your photos.

photos so we have our model Chelsey lip here and I'll take a picture of her with

So, we have our model Chelsea Lipp here and I'll take a picture of her with just

just natural light so that's not bad but

you can see there's some kind of odd

So that's not bad, but you can see there's some kind of odd lighting on her

lighting on her face and that's because behind me here the floor is being lit by the Sun and then that floor light is

face and that's because behind me here the floor is being lit by the sun and then that floor light is bouncing up and

bouncing up and kind of like under lighting her and that's the lighting

kind of under lighting her and that's the lighting you'd use in a

you'd use in a horror movie it's not the lighting you'd use for a portrait right

horror movie. It's not the lighting you use for a portrait, right? So we want to

so we want to kind of take control of that lighting and add some front lighting or some nice top lighting so

kind of take control of that lighting and add some front lighting or some nice

I'll try just turning on the on-camera

top lighting. So i'll try just turning on the on-camera flash here because this is

flash here because this is what everybody does and I'll take a photo with that so that definitely changed the

what everybody does and I'll take a photo with that.

lighting right but not necessarily for

So that definitely changed the lighting, right? But not necessarily for the better.

the better now we have two kind of weird catch lights and all the flash did was

Now we have two kind of weird catch lights and all the flash did was kind of

kind of add a harsh reflective light to her face with lots of ugly specular

added a harsh reflective light to her face with lots of ugly specular

highlights and it made this really hard shadow underneath her chin there's an

highlights and it made this really hard shadow underneath her chin.

easy way to make this much better and that's to add an external flash have one

There's an easy way to make this much better and that's to add an external

in my pocket so I'm just going to put

flash, I have one in my pocket.

this on my camera and turn it on and I

So I'm just going to put this on my camera and turn it on.

have it in fully automatic mode so I'll just take another picture so that's

And I have it in fully automatic mode, so i'll just take another picture.

better than the on-camera flash but it's still leaving a really distinct shadow

So it's better than the on-camera flash but it's still leaving a really distinct shadow under

under her chin the improvement is because I just raised the light source a

her chin. The improvement is because I just raised the light source a little bit

little bit away from the camera lens so now it's a little bit higher and that

away from the camera lens. So, now it's a little bit higher and that just gives a

just gives a more pleasing shadow but we can raise the lights even higher just by

more pleasing shadow but we can raise the light source even higher just by

doing this just bounce it off the

ceiling and now the whole ceiling here

Just bounce it off the ceiling. And now the whole ceiling here is going to

is going to become part of the light source so I'll take a sample shot like that

become part of the light source. I'll take a sample shot like that.

much softer that shadow is under a chin and just generally the lighting on the

See how much softer that shadow is under her chin and just generally the lighting on

face is so much better and the catch light in our eyes looks really nice too

the face is so much better and the catch light in her eyes looks really nice too.

because now the light source is much higher moving that catch light up a

Because now the light source is much higher moving that catch light up a

little bit there's another modification to that that I really like to make and

little bit. There's another modification to that that I'd really like to make and that's to

that's to flip this diffuser out just about all mid-range and higher end

flip this diffuser out. Just about all mid-range and higher-end flashes will

flashes will have this there's also a

little white reflector part there that I

There's also a little white reflector card there that I can use and what this

can use and what this reflector card is going to do is it's going to bounce some

reflector card is going to do is it's going to bounce some of the light

of the light straight forward just filling in some of the shadows so

straightforward, just filling in some of the shadow. So instead of just the

instead of just the ceiling being the

ceiling being the light source

light source it's going to add a little bit of front lighting too so we'll have

it's going to add a little bit of front lighting too. So we'll have a combination

a combination of top and front lighting

of top and front lighting.

so I'll take a couple more shots so you

So I'll take a couple more shots

can see if you look closely that that changed both the light on her face and

So you can see if you look closely, that that changed both the light on her face

the catch light in her eyes

and the catch light in her eyes.

so I'll put that card back and then I want to experiment with turning this to

So i'll put that card back and then I want to experiment with turning this to

the side a little bit because one of the great things about a bounce flash is you

the side a little bit because one of the great things about a bounce flashe is, you

don't have to bounce it straight up you can actually bounce it off of the left

don't have to bounce it straight up. You can actually bounce it off of the left

or right walls and you really need to size up the room that you're in because

or right walls and you really need to size up the room that you're in, because

it's going to be reflecting off the walls in the ceiling before there's no

it's going to be reflecting off the walls and the ceiling therefore there's no

one rule but I will often like to bounce it off the side just to get a little bit

one rule. But i will often like to bounce it off the side just to get a little bit

of side lighting in there so the gliding isn't just so Square and from the front

of side lighting in there so the lighting isn't just so square and from

so let's see what happens when I bounce it off the left a little bit so you can

the front. So let's see what happens when I bounce it off the left a little bit

see that changing the angle the head

So you can see that

does change the lighting but that's

changing the angle of the head does change the lighting but that's going to vary

going to vary depending on the room that you're in if you had differently colored

depending on the room that you're in. If you had differently colored walls or

walls or ceilings that would change it too if you had bright green walls or

ceilings that would change it too. If you had bright green walls our bright red

bright red walls that color would reflect back on your model and change

walls, that color would reflect back on your model and change their skin tones.

their skin tone so that's something you need to look out for often ceilings

So that's something you need to look out for. Often ceilings will be painted something

we've painted something different or they'll be metal and that will change

different or they'll be metal and that will change the way your bounce flash

the way your bounce flash work so it's you really have to experiment and size

works. So, you really have to experiment and size up the room that

up the room that you're in and there's no rule to it you just have to learn

you're in and there's no rule to it.

through experience so I'll try bouncing

You just have to learn through experience. So I'll try bouncing the

the flash off the right wall here and we'll see if that's different than the left wall

flash off the right wall here and we'll see if that's different than the left wall.

and you can see that did change the lighting now we have what I call broad

And you can see that did change the lighting! Now we have what I call broad

lighting because by bouncing the light

lighting because by bouncing the light off the right wall

off the right wall it's illuminating the side of her face that's closer to the

it's illuminating the side of her face that's closer to the camera. In other

camera in other words the larger side of

words, the larger side of her face.

her face when it bounced off the left wall was bouncing off and hitting the

When I bounced it off the left wall, it was bouncing off and hitting the far side of

far side of her face and I call that

her face and I call that narrow lighting.

narrow lighting so you can see you really have a lot of control just by twisting your flash head around just a

So you can see, you really have a lot of control just by twisting your flash head

little bit this room isn't a good choice

around just a little bit.

for it but sometimes I'll even bounce it

This room isn't a good choice for it, but sometimes I'll even bounce it off the

off the wall behind me to make a huge light source I have just open area

wall behind me to make a huge light source. I have just open area behind me

behind me so that sort of reflection wouldn't really work now if you're in a

so that sort of reflection wouldn't really work.

room with high ceilings you might find

Now, if you're in a room with high ceilings you might find that the flash

that the flash doesn't make it all the way down to your subject you can try

doesn't make it all the way down to your subject.

adding more power but in larger rooms

You can try adding more power, but in larger rooms bounce flash simply won't

bounce flash simply won't work it also

won't work outside if you want to light

It also won't work outside. If you want to light somebody with flash and have

somebody with flash and have it lot not

it not look terrible?

look terrible if when you're outside or in a room with high ceilings or colored

When you're outside or in a room with high ceilings or colored ceiling or

ceilings or colored walls I suggest

putting a softbox or other light modifier on your flash I hope you found

I suggest putting a softbox or other light modifier on your flash.

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