Bouncing in a Bigger Room

After the portrait of Jenny, I tried a similar setup with Jenny holding Roxy over her shoulder. This time, however, I tried it in a much larger room (master bedroom) instead of the master bath. The result was that when bouncing the flash, using similar camera settings (f5.6 @ 1/180), I had to boost the ISO to 200, and it still required more adjustment in PhotoShop from being underexposed in some parts--namely Roxy's face.

So, the quality of the photo isn't as good and you can see definite noise on Roxy in trying to get a similar high key look that was in the portrait of Jenny.

Lesson learned. Bouncing the flash in the bigger room still got a soft light, but it also was underpowered--which is also partly why I'm looking forward to the gear I have arriving next week that will allow me to shoot some off-camera flash stuff. More on that later, but here's the Roxy portrait.




Olympus E-620. f5.6 @ 1/180 with flash bounced camera right.