How do you bring out more light in the background when using bounce flash off the ceiling? where the subject?

Question

isnt just the only one illuminated? I have it at 90 degrees. do i need to bring it down?

Does it have to do with center weight or spot metering? someone help.

Answer 1

use a flash on slave, and have it behind the subject to backlight it.

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Answer 2

Try setting your flash exposure compensation a bit higher.

Answer 3

If you want to fill flash behind the subject you really need a slave flash that you can mount on a tripod behind them that will fire when your main flash fires.

Answer 4

Bounce flash off the ceiling is best done at a 45 degree angle. This will allow more of the light from your flash to fill in the background.

Answer 5

If I understand you correctly, you want more light on the bg.  You will either have to fire slaves or use a technique called dragging the shutter to capture more ambient light.  Shoot on manual and set the shutter speed to underexpose the bg by about 2 stops.  That should get you enough ambient to avoid the dark cave look.