Lab 3 - External Flash



                                      

The first task I chose was when I bounced the flash head off the ceiling. In the first of these two photos the flash was facing the subject and it came out very bright and overexposed. When I pointed the flash up towards the ceiling it came out way better.



The second task I chose was a portrait shot using bounce from behind the camera. To complete this task I stood with my back against a white wall, I turned the flash attached to my camera so that it faced the white wall so that it would reflect. I think the final outcome came out quite well. 




The final task I completed was using an external flash. We set up a flash head on a tripod so that when I took my picture this would go off at the same time as the flash on my camera. In the first picture of the two the camera was too the right hand side which is why only half of the face is lit up. In the second photo I decided to put the external flash to the left hand side and to look towards it, doing this made only a small portion of the face light up and as you can see the right hand side of the face has a majority of darkness.


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