map101
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After some experiments and other discussion on this forum I bought Rogue Flashbender. It was great for portraits. But, at events, it first of all felt heavy and difficult to manoeuvre through the crowd. Unless I was stationary which is not the case in events. Also, flash kept tilting down with its weight if I didn't hold the camera upright. Lastly, for subjects a bit far off I felt it wasn't that effective. What are you thoughts? Am I using Flashbender in the right way? After all there are limitations when flash is on camera. Flash I am using is EX600. Body is 5d Mark ii.
So on the event I went back to bouncing flash off the ceiling with a bit of a tilt. Luckily I got low ceiling so it worked great. Only problem is that I needed to be far in order to bounce with flash towards the ceiling with a bit of a tilt 75 degrees I imagine (90 degree being straight up facing the ceiling). However, every time the subject was close to me I was stuck. Didn't know what to do as bouncing flash straight up on the ceiling without tilt would make the light would fall awkwardly on the subjects and much stronger on their head. And with the tilt I needed to be much farther back for light to create an angle. Wanted to know how to we get around this when subjects are close? Where do we face our flash in this case? Secondly, what if the ceiling is high, which happens to be the case in some event locations? Ideas ...
Thanks in advance
So on the event I went back to bouncing flash off the ceiling with a bit of a tilt. Luckily I got low ceiling so it worked great. Only problem is that I needed to be far in order to bounce with flash towards the ceiling with a bit of a tilt 75 degrees I imagine (90 degree being straight up facing the ceiling). However, every time the subject was close to me I was stuck. Didn't know what to do as bouncing flash straight up on the ceiling without tilt would make the light would fall awkwardly on the subjects and much stronger on their head. And with the tilt I needed to be much farther back for light to create an angle. Wanted to know how to we get around this when subjects are close? Where do we face our flash in this case? Secondly, what if the ceiling is high, which happens to be the case in some event locations? Ideas ...
Thanks in advance