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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 174708" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>You will love the SB-800. Indoors, aim up at white ceiling for bounce at say f/5, with the builtin flash card pulled out. Low ISO. Don't stand too close, 6 or 8 feet. Zoom in if necessary.</p><p></p><p>Try it (NOT for bounce), but the coffee filter won't help much, the flash head is still small, not enlarged. It will just reduce your flash effective power (and make the flash slightly more reddish, which you might in fact like, for warming). If you could mount a 5 inch coffee filter a few inches in front of the flash, so the flash could illuminate all of it, then that becomes double size, and would help slightly, at close distances. Soft lighting is about Large lights.</p><p></p><p>Diffusion - is good, because of coming from Large lights (umbrellas, softboxes), which scatter the outer light inward, to hit the subject from different angles. Different angles soften the shadows from all the other angles.</p><p></p><p> Diffusing a tiny light only has dimension to just scatter it outwards, missing the subject. Soft requires Large.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 174708, member: 12496"] You will love the SB-800. Indoors, aim up at white ceiling for bounce at say f/5, with the builtin flash card pulled out. Low ISO. Don't stand too close, 6 or 8 feet. Zoom in if necessary. Try it (NOT for bounce), but the coffee filter won't help much, the flash head is still small, not enlarged. It will just reduce your flash effective power (and make the flash slightly more reddish, which you might in fact like, for warming). If you could mount a 5 inch coffee filter a few inches in front of the flash, so the flash could illuminate all of it, then that becomes double size, and would help slightly, at close distances. Soft lighting is about Large lights. Diffusion - is good, because of coming from Large lights (umbrellas, softboxes), which scatter the outer light inward, to hit the subject from different angles. Different angles soften the shadows from all the other angles. Diffusing a tiny light only has dimension to just scatter it outwards, missing the subject. Soft requires Large. [/QUOTE]
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