Digital Boudoir Photography : A Step-by-step Guide to ... - Ken Gilbert

Direct Flash On-Camera Flash with Diffuser
Lessons
Now we will look at sample images of Linda, taken at the same location with just a
swapping of the flash attachments. You can see that the light becomes progressively
softer with larger flash. There are very few differences between some of the images.
For example, there is almost no difference between the first two images. The PJ produces
the softest light of all because it allows some
light to go straight up and bounce off of the ceiling
and some to go out in all directions and bounce
about the room. This bouncing about the room
tends to wrap the light around the model and diffuse
the shadows. The PJ was used to create most of the
images in this book. It was used for the fill flash
indoors and outdoors as well. It costs about 50 dollars
from digitalphotographers.net and comes in different
sizes to fit a wide variety of flash units. The
only way to tell if flash attachments will work with
your equipment is to test them under controlled
conditions as we have done here and look for the differences.
Just because a device is called a light diffuser,
doesn’t mean that it will work for you. Use the
advantages of digital and test.
Flash with Small Dome Flash with Large Dome Flash with PhotoJournalist
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