Revealed

I know I have mentioned in my earlier post that I have gotten myself a new equipment... so... yeah shall reveal what it is~~ but those close to me has already seen what it is so... not really a big surprise already =P



Ahh yes... I got myself a new flash for my camera~

Usually for normal circumstances people would use models to pose for products, but I don't really see the point in that, since the model is always bigger size that the product, so shall use my little model to do the job for me =)
Back view of it...

People might wonder at the fact why do you need a big butt camera flash that will increase weight?? Doesn't the normal pop-up flash on the camera do the trick??? Well YES that is true... but often that might result in a very brightly lit image because you can't have full control of the light that's flying....

I too used to think that I don't need a flash, just increase the ISO is enough... well that IS also alright... but I came to a point where I found out my indoor shots were no longer satisfying in results, people's faces turned out looking pale, and no matter how bright the place is it still feels dim and gloomy in my pictures, especially for the people's faces that looks pale and liveless... zombies to say =)

And after comparing my pictures at the same place, same time, but only differences was that he had a big flash, and that made every single picture to look different, the colors was full, the whole image was brightly lit, I mean... it just looked professional~ XD

So does a big flash give more power in the light?? Well yes, and if not controlled well you can literally hurt someone's eyes with that amount of power it produces... that's why the advantages of a big flash is...
the ability to control where you want your light to fly towards, in this picture it's facing up, meaning that the light would be pushed up, and bounced off ceilings, walls, etc and producing a nice, fulfilling light source to your pictures =)
And turning it all the way to the back... means that you can bounce it off the wall behind you, to the ceiling, and onto the subject... yeah I know it sounds deep~ but just a brief way of saying that you get to fully turn the flash head around to whichever direction you want to have full manipulation of flash lights =)

But yeah the way I'm saying I also don't quite understand myself... so so so here's some pictures of differences~~
This is a normal picture taken in my room, where the light isn't powerful enough so I have to result to either using a slow shutter speed to absorb light, or just increase the ISO... but that would still produce an okay picture... but underexposed...
this is using the camera's in-build-pop-up-flash... you can control the amount of power it fires, but it still only fires straight, notice how overlit the main subject is, and how the light fades in the background making the background dark...
knowing that direct flash isn't good, so I used the speedlite and turned the head upwards so that the light would bounce up, and come down... sort of like you shooting a waterhose upwards and notice how the water spreads apart and falls down~~ noticed how well lit the picture is? From the foreground to the background~

and notice how the settings were all the same, and how much differences the flash can put to the picture compared to a picture without flash~~ =)

So yeah.. I have been using it for some events and I can say it's rather impressive, my pictures now look better indoor, for outdoor it's still a challenge, but something to learn slowly I guess...

BUT... haih... eventually need to get a diffuser, then one thing leads to another and there goes more and more money... arrggh... but trying to not buy anything else at the moment, enough is enough 0.0

Oh ya another more thing about using a speedlite, because you get a full manipulation of light and power, noticed in my previous pictures on how slow a shutter speed I need to use... normally holding the camera handheld would surely result in a blurry picture, BUT using a fast shutter count would result in dark pictures because the camera can't absort enough light in that fast speed...

That's where the power of a speedlite comes in, with the manipulation of light and power...
see what I can achieve with a shutter speed of 1/250 in the same room with the same light, but now with an increased shutter speed and taking the picture handheld, normally the picture would come out dark but the flash fills in the light perfectly... hey, it even gives the whole picture a completely different feel =)

The other two pictures are random but can prove to be a little example..

yeah well... so if you had a struggle whether to get a speedlite or not... I'd suggest you get one if yout the kind of person that takes alot of pictures indoor, or want that additional boost of light to brighten up your picture... it totally changes the feel of your pictures that's for sure

But... yeah I'm still very new with flash photography... so much more to learn about it, very hard~~

Well I hope this post has been a little helpful in letting you know how important flash can be in your photography, if you can't afford, hey it's okay the pop up flash works wonders too if you know how to control the light on it too, of course it'll take a lot more frustrative effort =(