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Chapter Thirteen: If You Use Hot Shoe Flash Instead...

...then you’re in luck, because there are hot shoe flash versions of nearly all the softboxes and accessories I use here in the book (and by “hot shoe flashes,” I mean external flash units that can be used off-camera, like Nikon’s SB-900 or Canon’s 580EX II, etc.). So, for this chapter, I reshot all the overhead images showing how you’d use hot shoe flashes, softboxes, and accessories to get the same looks shown in each of the previous chapters. Now, while the Elinchrom softboxes that I use are pretty much strictly used with strobes, companies like F. J. Westcott make all sorts of stuff designed ...