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Lumopro Hot Shoe Lets Any Flash Do It with Any Camera
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I just buy used off of Craigslist. The savings over new can be put toward the Brand B flash that doesn't work on the Brand A camera.
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I never, under any conditions, use a flash. I hate the ugly, ugly, ugly effect that a flash mounted on camera gives. The only two places I'd maybe use a flash is (1) in a controlled studio setting where I can position one or more flash units creatively/aesthetically and with umbrellas/softboxes, or (2) during industrial espionage in dark interiors. As I don't do studio shooting as in (1) and am now banned by NATO on (2), I don's use flash--at all.
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No matter what you do--flash through a (necessarily tiny) diffuser like from Gary Fong or Lumiquest, bounce it off of a (hopefully white) wall/ceiling, or do a combination of controlled/reduced flash and natural exposure--a single, camera-mounted flash exposure looks, at the very best, stylized in a way I don't care for or, much more often, flat/lifeless/unnatural. Yes, there are certain effects you can get using the technique you describe, but the fact that a flash was used is almost always evident.
My style of shooting is, and always will be, for the kind of natural/pleasing effects you get from existing light (or, as stated earlier, through a carefully composed studio setting, which I don't do as a still shooter but will do in filmmaking).
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