Paige Hassen: JRN

Given that the bounce-flash assignment was the first assignment of the class, I wanted to complete a re-shoot of the assignment. With the feedback I received, I was able to more clearly define what was expected in this assignment, as I believe I completed that.

Photos for Reshoot:

For photo one, I did an extreme bounce flash off of the white siding of a house. I angled the flash directly behind me so that it was able to bounce back onto the subject directly onto her face, and with softer light. Since it was dark outside, I really had to strive to find the right placement and the best strength for the flash in order to make the picture work well.

For photo two, I did an extreme bounce flash off of the light-colored siding of a pole-barn. For this one, I had my subject on an angle from the siding, and pointed my flash up and to the side, to achieve that desired soft light and shadow look. This was also shot outside at night, so I had to work to find out what the right placement and the best strength for the flash in order to make the picture work well.

Photo three is a normal bounce flash off of the walls of the subject’s room. Her room had all white walls and had a lot of great spots for pictures, but my favorites all came from that hanging light-wall background. This subject is a very positive and happy person, so I wanted to capture some of that.

Photo four is a normal bounce flash from the first assignment. Since this was from the very first assignment with my first subject, this is where I was really going back and forth and figuring out the best aperture, ISO, shutter speed, angles for flash, how much to fill the shots, and more. For this shot, I had the flash facing straight to my left and back a little, so that I could get that maximum shadow effect. There were absolutely no lights on in this apartment, as I shut them off to experiment with the assignment, so I like how the shadows and contrasts turned out without any light except for the flash.

Something I said in my original post:

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Something I may do a little different with shots like this in the future would be seeing what I can do with the background. Since it was night and dark outside, there was not much else I could do with places to angle the flash, but I think I could experiment with the camera to see what I could do with the background and how that would affect the subject. I still think this picture turned out well, but I would like to angle the flash a little differently next time.

After this entire assignment, I know I still need to do a lot more experimenting with bounce flash and messing with the aperture, ISO, shutter speed of the camera, as well as the flash itself. I enjoyed the assignment, as I have not used bounce flash before and really enjoyed learning how to use it, but this assignment did help me become more excited for the rest of this class and learning additional techniques to improve my skills.

There were quite a few things I did wrong along the way, as in not adjusting the correct ISO, aperture, shutter speed, etc. with the flash, but I believe that throughout every shot in each set-up, there was something I learned that furthered my prior knowledge. What I’m excited for is seeing that improvement continue throughout this class.

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I would like to say that I have seen an immense amount of improvement in my photos. I am much better at the set-up time, what to use in the background, how to have my subjects pose, navigating the aperture, ISO, shutter speed of the camera, as well as the flash itself much better than before, etc. I am happy with my progress.

Additional photos that I loved: