I took a remotely fired flash to the beach this morning (this means one that is not attached to the camera, but is still fired by a radio signal from the camera when you take the picture) to try my hand at taking some daylight flash photos that Jens had shown me, and thought I'd post them for you because I thought they came out really beautifully, especially this one of Aiden:
The idea is to fire a flash that's so bright that it makes the daylight seem dusk-ish, but at the same time gives you lovely colour and depth of focus because you've got to stop right down to f20 or f22 on the camera to prevent the whole image from being whited out. So you end up with a situation where you are using the the sun as if it's one flash and the remote fired flash as another. Having two light sources gives you options for bringing out detail (like you see above in Aiden's hair) that are not at your disposal with a single light source. It's also good for environments like Hong Kong where the haze washes out colour and detail - it's as if the air has a whitish, brightish feel to it. The picture below is shot whithout the flash and I've included it here because it shows what a high glare environment the beach was this morning- the sun is above and to the right behind Ange, so if you want detail in Aiden and her faces then it will be at the expense of detail in more exposed areas like the beach and the water. I think the photo is structurally very nice, but is whited out to the extent that I converted it into a black and white because I thought it looked better that way:
Below are the other flash photos I took. Ange had some bubbles and was blowing them for Ev, who is just out of the frame - you can see a tuft of his hair in the right foreground. I thought the bubbles looked pretty groovy, and I like the detail in the water on the right of her. Ev was harder to do (as always), because he was either speeding around doing his own thing (which can include rushing into the sea, so you've got to keep on your collective toes) or involved to the extent that he would the flash unit. get too close, or push it over; that sort of thing. The photo of him here is a crop and clone-out job of the one at the very bottom - where you can see the flash, and how close he's got to it. Hope you like these, and hope you've having a lovely time during your holiday.
The idea is to fire a flash that's so bright that it makes the daylight seem dusk-ish, but at the same time gives you lovely colour and depth of focus because you've got to stop right down to f20 or f22 on the camera to prevent the whole image from being whited out. So you end up with a situation where you are using the the sun as if it's one flash and the remote fired flash as another. Having two light sources gives you options for bringing out detail (like you see above in Aiden's hair) that are not at your disposal with a single light source. It's also good for environments like Hong Kong where the haze washes out colour and detail - it's as if the air has a whitish, brightish feel to it. The picture below is shot whithout the flash and I've included it here because it shows what a high glare environment the beach was this morning- the sun is above and to the right behind Ange, so if you want detail in Aiden and her faces then it will be at the expense of detail in more exposed areas like the beach and the water. I think the photo is structurally very nice, but is whited out to the extent that I converted it into a black and white because I thought it looked better that way:
Below are the other flash photos I took. Ange had some bubbles and was blowing them for Ev, who is just out of the frame - you can see a tuft of his hair in the right foreground. I thought the bubbles looked pretty groovy, and I like the detail in the water on the right of her. Ev was harder to do (as always), because he was either speeding around doing his own thing (which can include rushing into the sea, so you've got to keep on your collective toes) or involved to the extent that he would the flash unit. get too close, or push it over; that sort of thing. The photo of him here is a crop and clone-out job of the one at the very bottom - where you can see the flash, and how close he's got to it. Hope you like these, and hope you've having a lovely time during your holiday.
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