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Kai
4th of June 2007 (Mon), 14:17
Should I. This will be my third wedding and I love to bounce flash.
samnz
4th of June 2007 (Mon), 15:34
Yeah do it! If you have a slave flash, might even add to the mood.
Eoseni
4th of June 2007 (Mon), 15:58
If you are able, try it out before the real wedding. Test different solutions. Pick the one that works for you. I've not done such a venue, but that's what I'd do. Test it.
Toogy
4th of June 2007 (Mon), 16:45
This is when I use my lightsphere if I must bounce the flash, usually for the processional I just go direct flash, it sucks, but it gets the job done, and for the rest of the ceremony just use available light.
tim
4th of June 2007 (Mon), 16:45
I don't use flash in churches, even bounced (if that's possible) it will leave parts of the church bright and some very dark, but let us know how you get on after you do some test shots.
Kai
4th of June 2007 (Mon), 17:04
I am going to test it out later this week. I will let you know what I get. Tim, how can you not use flash at all. My pictures would turn out very blurry and dark.
Eoseni
4th of June 2007 (Mon), 17:11
Perhaps high ISO, low shutter speed with IS lenses, and hope that the B&G stay still, which is usually the case during the ceremony.
LightInspire
4th of June 2007 (Mon), 20:04
Use flash for processional, available light for ceremony and maybe bounce for reception if it is not too dark and ceilings not too high.
2gDSM
4th of June 2007 (Mon), 23:16
In big churches I've found that bouncing a flash is almost counter-productive. No matter how I do it it seems like light falloff is a problem.

E.g. if the bride is 22 feet in front of the back wall, and the right wall you're bouncing off of is 32 feet away, then the light bounced back will have to go past 12 f-stops of light falloff due to bouncing to the wall and back (sqrt2)^12=64. At the same time, because the bride is 22 feet in front of the back wall then the difference in light from the bride and the back wall will be ~9 f-stops different )sqrt2)^9=22.6.

Don't believe me? Try it.

The best results I've had were when I tried direct flash (or bounced 45*) with the subject to background distance being very small.

Hopefully someone understands what I'm saying.