What I Use... and Why and When I Use It

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OKAY. HERE WE GO. The whole megillah, right from when I walk out the door with a small flash job in mind. Bit by bit, piece by piece, from the camera to the flash to the flotsam and jetsam of my lunatic imagination.

Alternatively, you could read the user’s manual. Wouldn’t that be a nonstop good time? Pulls in somewhere around “putting razor blades in your eyes” on the fun meter.

Or, you could convince yourself that your photographic aesthetic precludes the use of “artificial” light, and you only work with “natural” light. Going natural may be fine in other areas of your life. Hug all the ...

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