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Bouncing flash off the ceiling when shooting in portrait

  • 26-10-2010 8:16pm
    #1
    Crispin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭


    How do people shoot in portrait and use a hot shoe flash to bounce off the ceiling. Will it give weird results even with a diffuser on? Is it better to shoot landscape and crop? :confused:


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  • #2
    AnCatDubh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭AnCatDubh


    has your flash got a tilt and swivel flash head on it or just a tilt?

    Tilt and swivel flash heads will allow you to shoot either portrait or landscape and still bounce off a roof. Its got that extra flexibility built in. With tilt only, when in portrait, you will end up bouncing off a wall or other surface.

    Or take a tilt only flash and move it off camera - mount it on a tripod and wirelessly trigger making it about as flexible as whatever direction you point your camera.


  • #3
    Crispin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Crispin


    AnCatDubh wrote: »
    has your flash got a tilt and swivel flash head on it or just a tilt?

    It's tilt and swivel so i am bouncing it off the ceiling but the results don't seem quite as well lit as when i shoot landscape. I haven't properly tested it but just wondered what others thought/did. I presume you just tilt and swivel and have no problems?


  • #4
    CabanSail
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    The only differences I can see is that in Portrait the flash will be slightly offset from the centre and that the Head will have the narrow side toward the subject.

    I doubt the offset would have any noticable difference but the change in the shape of the light might. Maybe try diffusing the flash.


  • #5
    mikeanywhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    Crispin wrote: »
    It's tilt and swivel so i am bouncing it off the ceiling but the results don't seem quite as well lit as when i shoot landscape. I haven't properly tested it but just wondered what others thought/did. I presume you just tilt and swivel and have no problems?

    Depends where the subject is to what direction the natural light is. Why not bounce the flash off a wall instead


  • #6
    jaybeeveedub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭jaybeeveedub


    you could try setting the flash to manual in order to keep it at full power....

    ettl doesnt really know how high your ceiling is


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  • #7
    ditpaintball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 993 ✭✭✭ditpaintball


    Are you pointing the flash directly up into the ceiling or slightly forward so the light bounces off the ceiling and down wards the subjects?


  • #8
    Thecageyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,756 ✭✭✭Thecageyone


    Another simple solution is to buy a hot-shoe cord and you can aim the flash any direction you want, no matter the orientation. I got one on ebay for about a fiver. It's short [arms length at a stretch] but that is all I really use it for.


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