BOUNCEFLASH

Ha!  That title oughtta bring in some traffic!

Tonight, Karma Shuford Photography offered a free sitting to my parents with our children.

Well, duh, they’re my parents.  Of course they get a free sitting.

And we need the practice.

Tonight’s glitch was an SB-20 that was firing but was apparently out of sync – it wasn’t lighting the background properly in the pictures.  I’ve concluded it was probably the battery in the Poverty Wizard transmitter – it appears to have never been changed since I bought the thing a couple years back.  So, until I can get a new battery and confirm that, we’ll assume that’s where the blame lies.

Another interesting “glitch” was the glare on my dad’s glasses.  I THOUGHT it was caused by the fact that we were slowing down the shutter to try to allow the SB-20 to sync and thus letting too much ambient in.  However, there’s a more complex reason, I think.  We’re using a single key light, usually to camera left, in a semi-Rembrandt lighting.  Thus, the person on camera left, who is facing slightly toward camera right, has perfectly clear glasses (see my Mom in the picture below).  However, my Dad, who is on camera right and facing left, has a different problem and thus the reflection shows up.  Lesson:  when multiple people in the shot have glasses, get them all facing so that the key light is not reflecting in their glasses.  Glad this wasn’t a paying client!

I don’t like the poses.  We need to work on some “stock” poses for couples, especially older couples.  But we worked with them a little bit.

A couple pics….

The setup

Mom and Dad