Quote Originally Posted by melaman
Thanks all this has been a big help.
I am shooting a wedding soon in an old stone restaurant with high ceilings. The test shots I took did not turn out that well. I am using a D70 with the SB600 flash. Usually I bounce the flash but nothing to bounce off of as the ceiling is to high. I will do more reading on the Gary Fong Light sphere (cloud) and Lumiquest.
Any more suggestions would be great :thumbsup:
Thanks
The Gary fong Lightsphere is great for smaller rooms and when the subject is close to you. It gives very natural results. However, for the wedding in a large reception room with high ceilings I would not recommend it. Too much light is lost around the sides and back of the sphere that would have no effect at all in a large room like that. Especially using your SB600 which is not all too powerful to begin with.
I would suggest just using a bounce card secured to the flash. A large enough one will throw alot of light forward. The light going up towards the ceiling will be enough to give some nice ambient fill.
Another thing is that if your going to rely on the cameras metering system to put the correct flash output you may have a bit of trouble unless you specify your subject and lock Flash exposure on it.
I have good results from my 5D by spot metering and using FEL (flash exposure lock) on my subject just before snapping. Great consistent results, whereas just using evaluative metering and letting the camera decide whats right can give you a mixed bag of very poor to ok results.