Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John: >Anyway, now I share a technique. Everyone knows you can bounce the flash off >the ceiling, and walls to the left and right of you, but next time try >this... > >fire the flash backwards. > >yeah it sounds ludicrous but if you are standing about six feet from a wall >you will get a beautiful diffuse frontal lighting, real beauty shot stuff. Cool!! I played around with that on a few shots at the end of a roll. http://canid.com/pics/cuervo_bed.jpg Ignore the background. This isn't meant to be an example of anything but how the light falls on the subject. :) The bedpost is about 5 ft and the wall in the background is about 8 ft behind the cat. Firing the flash backwards seems to do a better job of providing even illumination over more than just the subject. Makes sense now that I stop to think about it. Instead of a subject at 3 ft away and a background at 8 ft away, the light is traveling about 15 ft + 3 and 15 ft + 8. Instead of a 7:1 difference, it's a 1.6:1 difference. Eric