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Originally Posted by joshman
hey, simple trick, turn your camera upside down and place a big piece of white card at your feet, angle the flash head and card so that it'll throw the light from your flash at the subject.
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If you really want to do that (...
if...), a much easier way is to wear two white clean t-shirts, hold the camera upside down, then rotate the flash backwards so that it bounces off your stomach.
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Originally Posted by Ed Shapiro
Here's the problem: When you are working with a portable flash out of doors, there is usually no modeling lamp in the unit to show you were the shadows are going- you are shooting "blind" unless you have some knowledge of studio lighting and you can guesstimate where your flash should be.
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Actually, the SB-800
does have a modelling lamp. (Same lamp, it just fires continuously at 1/256th power or something.) I'd suggest that the OP start using it to see where his shadows will cast before he takes the picture. (IIRC, it's the grey button on the back of the SB-800.)