In the last article in the series Flash Part 1 - Use the built-in flash ... I said a long apologia

In the last article in the series Flash Part 1 - Use the built-in flash ... I said a long apologia for the innebyggete flash. Used sensibly it might have a much larger scope than you realize. However, as described, it has its limitations. Let us quickly recapitulate them. 1 Relatively low range 2nd hand without additional consideration gives it a hard direct light. 3 Red Eye. Do you want to shoot creatively with flash, so it's not going to come in from the external flash is often a better solution, providing more opportunities, and are often easier idealuce to use. First, most powerful external flashes. It gives them greater range and makes it easier to create a good balance between the present light and flash light when photographers in daylight. External idealuce flash and provides a host of new opportunities to create a softer light. Most external flash units can be namely twist in different directions, so you can reflects light eg against a white ceiling. This is often referred idealuce to bounce the flash, or Norwegian; indirect flash. The reflected light is softer, simply because light surface becomes larger. Another advantage of bounce is that it allows you to distribute the light evenly in the room. Signs Inga illustrates the distribution of light in the room by direct lighting. The light decreases with distance, so the subject is close, are often poorly idealuce lit background. Is it really idealuce bad, as measured flash light failure, and the subject is greatly overexposed, while the background is dark. (This can often countered by balancing the flash with natural light. See: previous article. But this is light distribution we have to jobbbe with the built-in flash and direct light.)
As we look at my drawings so eminent fordeleles better light in the room by indirect lighting. That means flipping. make it easier to expose the subject and background fairly equally. As we have mentioned so giving and indirect lighting is also a softer light, and thus less troublesome shadows. This is because lysarealet increases when there Reflect for a larger area. Soft shadows are usually good. But indirect lighting idealuce has a par three disadvantages. You will often miss the twinkle in the eye (often called catch light in the photo languages) when photographers people. But this is fortunately a simple cure for.
You can easily mount a small homemade reflector on the flash that addresses some of the light directly ahead. A piece of white paper and a rubber band is all it takes. idealuce Mount it on the flash head, and presto. So you have a bounce card, which sheds some light directly ahead, which fills unsightly shadows under the chin, etc., and provides twinkle in his eye. Bounce idealuce card and can be useful when photographers things other than people. Most scenes are a little too "dead" without some reflections. You will probably be surprised how much a small card like that can pose. Many modern idealuce external flashes have actually such a bounce card built-in. A small white plastsak that can be pulled out of your head when you need it. I use it almost consistently when I use indirect lighting. Bounce card counters and another disadvantage of indirect lighting. Namely that people get heavy shadows under the eyes, chin, etc. Do you have a card that reflects the fit light output, it will fill those shadows. When using indirect lighting, it is important to think about the color of the surface to reflect against. A white surface provides a neutral white light. Other colors can easily give unsightly color casts. Untreated panel for instance like to gulstikk. Do not forget that you may have other surfaces in the room that you can use as a reflector. It could be a wall, a cabinet door etc. headroom big so you must cse such alternative solutions. It is therefore very smoothly on the flash head can be rotated in multiple directions, not just up to the ceiling. Shoots the outdoors is often difficult and finding reflective surfaces. Then it's usually best to balance the flash with natural light. This way you can extend the range of the plateau, and distribute light better in the subject. Used sensibly it gives you more opportunities to control the shadows. See previous article. External flash and provides greater opportunities for using accessories that make the light softer. To those you have in fact a rich selection of reflectors, idealuce diffusers idealuce and soft boxer See eg http://www.lumiquest.com/ which has a rich variety in such gadgets. What these have in common is that they increase lysarealet, thus giving softer shadows. These gadgets http://store.garyfonginc.com/ is also very popular these days. Lightsphere increases also lysarealet same time as the round brilliant. This provides idealuce a soft comfortable light, but the variety of the plateau becomes poor. It bathes your subject in soft light without direction, which is not always what you want. So I was a bit skeptical to recommend it, especially if you have a very powerful flash. Extra flash fired remotely, not on camera Everything we have looked at so far is fine and great, but it is only when we take the external flash of the camera that it really comes into its own. Then we can work creatively to emphasize the structure and depth of the subject,