Welcome back to part two of my two part series about working with atrocious lighting conditions. Here I give real world examples of how I managed to get great photographs even when the environment doesn't quite offer optimal shooting conditions.
Continuing from my previous post, found here, we were trying to figure out what we can do get some properly lit photos at this wedding location that has much less than ideal lighting conditions. We're talking about at night, in a high ceiling warehouse with black curtains along every wall.
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There were four things in this scene I bounced my flash off of to obtain some excellent photos, I discussed the first two in the previous post, so onto number three! Even though the walls themselves were covered in black cloth, absorbing massive amounts of light, I was able to still use them to achieve enough bounce to get a nice soft diffusion. Ratcheting up my ISO to 4000-6400 and cranking up the speed light to maximum brightness, I said screw it and bounced it off the black cloth anyway. Black absorbs light, but the cloth isn't a perfect black, some light still gets reflected. Normally this wouldn't work very well, unless it is in an already dark environment where any amount of light is more sensitive to your sensor since I was shooting with a higher ISO.
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I hope you guys enjoyed this post and learned something useful to use in your future shoots! Keep on plugging!