Week 9: Introduction to flash

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In this workshop task, we were given flashguns. We were asked to work with flash in indoor lighting. The purpose of using flash to help avoid shadows or compensate for the absence for light e.g indoors. 


With the flashguns we were able to control:
The mode (manual/automatic)
Rotating Head- allowing us to control the direction of the light
Zoom- Alter the spread of light






In my opinion, i think the next two images were created quite well. The flash gun was tilted up towards the wall, and created a good light source for the subject. The images are bright and both display a good exposure. The pictures do not look artificial which is what i initially expected from using flash. However, the only drawback to this image is you can clearly see the light source to this image. The small area of over exposure could be due to standing too close, or not having the flash gun in the correct position.




These two images below are ones which i think were quite weak, the flash gun was rotated straight on against the subject. The flash was definitely too bright for the settings as it was quite a dark room. This left the exposure to look quite harsh and artificial, which is not what i was trying to create. This is probably due to experimenting with the position of the flash. I think that if i was to take photography further, i would definitely spend more time working with flash. 





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