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Life Less Literary - Dan Sumption lives here: Improvised off-camera flash technique

  • Rolograaf · 2 years ago
    Dan, good idea.

    I have cable which is not so long, have to test if that works.

    Also I heard people boucing of the inside of their hand, so you could turn the flashhead upwards (use the ceiling for the rest of the bounce).

    Thanks also for your flickr comment http://www.flickr.com/groups/canondslr/discuss/..., as said, we seem to think alike, but it's good you'r blogging about it, gives me new ideas.

    Cheers
    Lawrence
  • sam · 2 years ago
    why don't you try wearing a white glove on the hand, and have the flash point parallel with your arm, into your hand. Then you could customize the light spread with your hand.
  • dansumption · 2 years ago
    @sam: with that flash, it's not possible (fixed head), but I later did something similar to what you suggest:
    http://www.sumption.org/2007/07/07/this-man-wit...
  • lee_taylor@att.net · 2 years ago
    Now that you've got a free hand - what are you going to do with it?
    Just curious - george...
    Lee
  • Yoshi · 9 months ago
    M M M----you still need to strech your hand, and aim the flash, ------ its mean,
    is this for you to keep your glass in your hand ?
  • dansumption · 9 months ago
    Haha, you guessed it Yoshi. I always have to have a hand free for my bottle of beer!
  • Steffen · 6 months ago
    Know how is all. Nothing is impossible. I will try this here in Germany ;)