Shooting With External Flash

If you're request yourself what you can do with external flash the real question should be, what can't I do?

For starters, you'll probably notice that your external flash produces considerably more illumination than your camera's built-in flash. In fact, you may even find that you normally need to use flash exposure recompense to dial back the Power a itsybitsy bit. If your flash images look a itsybitsy too "hot," you'll need to try lowering the flash exposure.

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The most important advantage of an external flash is the ability to bounce its Light off other surfaces. In general, the Light sources we're used to finding the world under are very large and diffuse. Your flash, by comparison, is a small, point Light source, and so creates a very harsh Light. However, if you tilt the flash so its light bounces off the ceiling, the ceiling becomes the source of illumination for your scene.

Shooting With External Flash

On most flashes with tilt, the camera automatically adjusts its exposure to adjust for the estimate of tilt you have on your flash. As long as you're using a flash with self-operating Ttl (through the lens) metering, the camera will be able to adjust flash exposure as you tilt and swivel the flash. Nevertheless, you'll want to keep an eye on your histogram, and see if your flash exposure is correct. If it's not captivating enough, use a obvious flash exposure compensation. If it's too bright, set your flash exposure recompense lower.

Direct flash has the advantage of "flattening" facial features. This can often be a good thing, as it affords you a way to, for example, sacrifice the apparent size of someones nose. However, in many instances, you'll generate dark shadows under the chin of your model.

If your flash can swivel, and tilt, you can bounce the flash off walls, or reflectors to generate side lighting effects, which allow you more control over the shadows in your image.

Tilting and swiveling also allows you to as a matter of fact reposition the direction of the flash as you convert from portrait to landscape mode.

Firing the flash directly at the branch results in harsh front-lighting. On the other hand you can bounce it off the ceiling and, in expanding to being less harsh, you can see more facial contour and the background is more illuminated. If your flash can tilt and swivel, it's easy to keep it pointed at the ceiling as you convert from portrait to landscape orientation.

Shooting With External Flash

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