Why you should use bounce flash

[fivemack]

Which of these loaves looks more appetising?

My apologies to those of my readers for whom both loaves look irritatingly toxic.

Err, yes, I went out this morning and bought the camera I'd been contemplating for months.

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I ♥ bounce flash.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

...do you have any kind of remote control capability for that flash gun? I've been experimenting with the much wider range of lighting possibilities that RC gives with mine lately, though nothing I'm yet inclined to publish l-)

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have remote-control capability, though the instructions for enabling it are on the staggeringly baroque side (http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/ittlslave.htm ; the bit about 'select controller channel 3' is particularly non-obvious. I took a couple of shots to check that it worked - flash from the side onto fluffy things gives a nice Glowing Bunny Slippers of Righteousness effect - but I don't have any kind of creative ideas of what to do with it. I can assume the classic wedding-photographer flashgun-in-left-hand pose, but I'm not quite sure what that's aiming to achieve for my subject.

Canon is Canon and Nikon is Nikon and never the twain shall meet, I suppose, otherwise we could meet up and see what more can be done with 2N flashes.