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Old 12/08/2007, 04:23 PM
juniormc8704 juniormc8704 is offline
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shooting through the front of the glass with a external or hot shoe mounted flash at a 45 degree angle. Then you use the bounce board at whatever angle you need to reflect the light directly over the top of the subject being shot. You can even use a white piece of foam board as the bounce board. It allows you to control the angle of overhead lighting, and makes it much softer rather than a bight beam of light like a standard flash shot.

they are used mostly for portraits. You can use a gold foil bounce board and make the flesh tones more bronze in color, like a nice subtle tan. Also hides facial blemishes rather than emphasize them.

if you have a canopy, its not really worth the effort. You would have to remove it to get the right shot.

the cool thing about it is you CAN hit the subject (coral) with bright overhead light, and behind it can be completely dark. Its an easy way to get that nice black background to a subject that may have a lot going on behind it. So rather than just lowering the f-stop to make it blurry, you can just make it disappear altogether.