BOUNCEFLASH

An old post from my other blog, bernardshuford.com.

One thing I want to learn how to do as a
photographer is to make a decent “headshot portrait” without having to
lug a bunch of equipment around.  I want to know how to do this
consistently and without ado.

There are other things I want to learn too, but this is one for now.

These photos were shot with on-camera flash, which was bounced off a
white wall to camera left.  The subjects are kids, so they are close to
the ground, which means that the white ceiling was “high”.  The wall
was about four feet away from both the subjects and the camera.

The camera is a Canon 300D and the flash is a Nikon SB-24, both in
full manual mode.  There’s no “communication” between them, but they
work fine.

There are some slight differences, it appears, in the exact subject location relative to the wall.