I second the idea on writing more about our experience in this field. It is perfectly alright to post your experience with Nikon gear while shooting those pix as well. On the other hand, have me in the new mailing list. As for bouncing flash in the high ceiling floor, well, forget about it. Try this different technique. You can hand held your flash vertically on top of your shoulder and pointing the flash to the subject. This flash should have a diffuser. This lighting technique mimic the light from the sun. Just watch out people with deep skull when using this technique. When there are more flashes and time, there are many more variations. Fuji NPS 160 gives you great skin tone and contrast. Kodak Portra 160 NC is a good choice for great skin tone, color, and softer contrast. Kodak Portra 400 NC is probably what I will shoot mostly. As for film-speed goes, I use 400 for indoor and save the 100 for the outdoor daylight. compensate to avoid underexposure due to the whites by adding .7EV on your flash or on your camera to get natural skin color. Watchout on the composition since too much bright white occupying your print is undesirable. Softener and center spot is a nice combination at the price of about 2 F-stops. Cross is also ( or not so ) common. A few special effects are: using filter, zooming lens, strob, and rear-curtain.
