True confessions time: I'm a soft target for camera accessory advertisements. It doesn't take much more than a few flashy product shots to convince me that the $30 gizmo of the week is going to change my photographic life. Perhaps thankfully, reality tends to set in pretty quickly � sometimes even before I pull the trigger on a purchase. Still, this hasn't kept me from amassing a bagful of small accessories of varying usefulness, and over the years I've been especially drawn to accessories promising better flash pictures.
Even with good equipment and experience, flash shooting can be tricky. A DSLR with an external flash unit, especially one with a tilt/swivel head, is capable, in the right hands, of providing illumination that has little in common with the blasted, flat look that point-and-shoot users often associate with flash photos. Even with this kind of setup, however, being able to further soften the light coming from your flash unit is often crucial to getting a nice, evenly exposed shot. In order to make this happen, photographers must go wading into one of the advertising minefield described above: the dangerous, often over-hyped world of light modifiers.
David Rasnake
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