Flash
Authors: Goran Katić and Marina Ćosić
When taking photographs indoors many experienced photographers often avoid the use of direct flash because it can lead to “admired” shimmery forehead and a pale face (especially when the face is very powdered). So, instead of pointing your flash directly to the object, use walls and a ceiling of the room you’re in to reflect the light which will then fall onto your object.
Indirect Flash: beam of light directed towards the white ceiling.In some situations light reflection from a wall is not possible: for example, when a ceiling is too high, or when a wall or a ceiling is black or colored in some other dark color. In that case you will need to try and find some other ways to do it.
The room this photo was taken has a black colored ceiling. Flash can not reflect from this kind of surface so the plane white A4 size paper was used to do the job of a light reflector.
Red colored room demands much stronger flash then the one you would get with a light reflection from the ceiling and that would only lighten up the upper part of the photograph anyhow. This kind of photograph would not be technically correct. And besides that, further down the road you would need to try and get rid of the dominating red color on the photograph.In a set-up like this it’s still best to use direct flash because the red color in this case demands much stronger flash.
