Bounced Flash
   
     Bounced flash is one of the best ways to photograph indoors. Contrary to the belief that flash gives flat lighting, the bounced flash light warps around the subject beautifully giving very uniform light, the kind of soft light from an overcast sky. As the light is bounced from the ceiling the whole ceiling acts as a light source.    
   
Flash versus low light-
   
         
     This photgraph was shot with the flash bounced from the ceiling. f4 at 1/60th sec. The same scene photographed without the flash resulted in a blured image due to slower shutter speed.     
       
       
     Some people feel that the pictures shot with the flash lack the warmth and miss out on the yellow of the interiors. These things can actually be adjusted and tweeked very easily with the white balance settings on your camera or the rwa conversion software. the picture below(left) is the tweaked version of the flash photograph on the right.    
           
           
       

   
           
       High ISO versus bounced flash    
       

ISO 2500 f4 1/40th sec auto white balancedISO 100 f4 1/60th sec daylight white balance

   
           
           
           
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