Re: How are Wedding Photographers shooting with Flash on Camera
I don't shoot weddings, but I do shoot rather lovely private parties which tend to have very complex and difficult lighting arrangements in big venues.
Apart from the formals which get multi-strobe treatment, I shoot with on-camera flash and an assistant with a speedlight on a pole.
If I am careful, I can get a very natural image - by balancing ambient to ETTL with just enough punch to accentuate the subject. I run the assistant's light as a backlight and set this to fully manual which I can control from my camera.
I've never been a fan of having fixed strobes in the corners of a room. It makes me feel that it becomes a photographic experience rather than my client's event. Whilst for more subtle things I may bounce my flash of a white wall of ceiling, my needs tend to require the ability to retain atmospheric lighting (and colours), so bounce in these cases just tends to wash thing out too much.
I use a Lumiquest Kwikbounce, not for any bounce effect, but because it places the speedlight in a better place when shooting portrait, but also because it places the light source a little bit higher. Let's not forget when we're nervous about on-camera lighting, that often just a bit of extra height can make all the difference - after all, the use of a beauty dish on-axis doesn't upset anyone.
With a little care, the above can give incredibly natural results.
Aug 27, 2020 at 09:03 AM
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