flash fill
October 16, 2013
This week's challenge is flash fill, selected by Yours Truly. Check out my pals for their interpretations on this theme: Fishing Guy, Katney, Imac, Lew, and Christine Anne.
This shot captures the idea, but I didn't notice from the little screen that it was blurry. |
Again, I exposed for the colorful background, but still used flash and look! A spider--bonus! |
This was taken after a rain and I still had wet petals. |
This is especially fun to do with portraits. Natural light portraits can look very good in a soft way, but I like what it does to add fill flash and bring the face out from the shadows. Plus, it makes the eyes sparkle (catch lights). In the case of strong sunlight, I like fill flash, because it softens harsh contrasts, washes out the wrinkles and makes the face look CoverGirl-pretty instead of Hitchcock-stark.
Speaking of "Stark," I was invited to a masquerade party this weekend. I'm going as Tony Stark (Iron Man). I stayed up after midnight figuring out a way to make the Arc Reactor. I'll probably add a pic or two to next week's post, regardless of the theme.
8 comments:
Nay bad Header and post Iron Man Craver. lol
Well done ol boy.
Great way to highlight the flowers and minimize the background!
I seem to manage to make things worse with the flash. I guess it takes practice.
Very nice captures for your theme.
You've read my post and seen how infrequently I use flash. :) I'm one of those who prefers natural light, though flash does have its uses, especially as fill or to achieve a certain effect.
I like your flower pic's, especially the one at sunset. I've used flash once in a flower pic to capture the inside of a yucca bloom. I guess to me, it's obvious that flash was used, but for drama, it looks really nice.
Lighting (and flash) is probably the next big R&D thing for me in photography. :)
Thanks for sharing your flash pic's; it's great to see flash in use.
Hello, Iron Man.
THAT explains your FB post.
Sigh.
I'm so glad. I was mystified...but now I understand.
Great photos...and something that I love about your blog (in addition to your photos) is your explaining photography"stuff"... "Stuff" that I need help with. I love that. And, I thank you, my friend.
Jackie
lovely. i'm still becoming comfortable with fill flash myself.
great floral captures!
excellently done:))
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