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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bossman" data-source="post: 95830" data-attributes="member: 11665">Answer to pistnbroke,,, It's really dead simple using the bounce reflector when shooting upright. Normally with the flash and bounce reflector fitted on the camera, the light source is too far from the lens axis hence you get those huge ugly shadows to the side of your subject. To shoot upright, imagine the camera on a tripod in the upright position, the flash head should been turned 90degrees down, then turn the head upright to face the ceiling. The reflector card which is normally attached to the rear of the flash unit needs now to be turned and fitted on the side of the head making that distance from the lens is now greatly reduced. You still get a small shadow but it is not as ugly. I never or rarely shoot using the flash as my only illumination,  I use the bounce reflector mostly at weddings I always work on a tripod when indoors. I'm old school, but I rarely shoot higher than 400ISO. So if I take a simple reflected light reading of my location and it reads say, 10th sec at f5.6. Thats what I shoot on the camera with the flash usually 2 stops less. Any higher ISO and you make it too sensitive and risk losing highlight details easily. The longer shutter time allows the ambient light to fill the background and any shadows disappear. I worked all my life inside churches using the same technique with roll film. Just as then, I want the shot to be right in the camera, thats the art of being a good and creative photographer. Anyone can stick a flash on top, set it to 6oth sec hand held and blast away, but it does'nt do anything for the images produced, in fact in my opinion, it's not even good amateur standard. [ATTACH]22190[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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