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One of the ideas that we teach here often on the site is about how you can augment the look of natural light by putting a flash up against a window. But now it’s time to take that step just a bit further–and all you need is an off-camera flash and a large white/translucent reflector. How large? Figure around 42 inches.
Now it can be used in one of two ways:
- Bouncing the light from the flash off the large surface to deliver more potent light
or
- Configuring the reflector to be translucent (shoot-through) and putting the flash on one side of the reflector and your subject on the other side.
Either way, make sure that you set your hot shoe flash head to the widest setting using the wide angle diffuser. When you do this, it’s going to cover the most surface area and when bounced off (or shot through) the reflector, it’s going to give off coverage that’s going to look similar to what a window can do.
Shooting a portrait? Have the reflector to the side of your subject and a little bit above. Shooting food? Well have the reflector to the side and way above.
Go give it a shot and as always, have fun shooting!