Invisible Flash

After reading the blog of Neil van Niekerk, one thing that he tries to do in his photography is to light his photos imitating natural light so it isn't obvious that they have been flash lit. The Strobist Style is all about using lighting as an art. Nevertheless, I have never attempted to light something without making it look like I was trying to light something... until now.

Can you tell which picture is lit with a flash and which one is lit with window light? It was a cloudy day and the daylight is hitting the cellular blind.





This second photo is taken after midnight, and shows the ambient levels of light I am using to demonstrate the the photo is entirely lit by flash. The model statue is in approximately the same place as earlier.


This third photo is lit by bouncing the flash off of the cellular blind. The color of the light is different, but the quality is very close.

By changing the WB, it changes the color temperature of the photo. The flash lit photo is on the left, the window lit photo is on the right. This looks a lot like daylight, and in some ways more like daylight than the original. By bouncing off the window, I can approximate the sunlight coming through the same shades.