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.

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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.