For those of you who still don't use an off camera strobe, here is a good example of how inexpensive equipment can drastically improve your shots.
A on camera flash would have flattened the image out, and brightened up the hallway behind her. By moving the flash off camera, we get good muscle definition, great depth, and darken the doorway to frame the body and provide a good dark backdrop for the smoke.
Shot with a sb-600 in manual mode full power off a 20" umbrella.
Nikon d100
1/60 sec at f/16
iso800
Used "noise ninja" to remove some of the noise from the high ISO.
2 minutes of post work in photoshop, such as adding a slight "s" curve in the curves adjustment to brighten the whites and darken the blacks.
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Sta.sh
you really are a great teacher.
Then i needed to change memory crouched down in the middle of the floor with camera and flash in hand.. fell over once, but caught my balance..
My favorite was riding (holding on for dear life) on the back of a tank going 40mph cross country taking pictures.
I shot a wwII re-enactment a while back. That weekend was epic....I don't know how my camera survived.
They wouldn't just let me go out and take pics, I had to be fully dressed out, carrying a gun...running...diving over barbed wire....
I put up a slideshow of the event..
addictedimage.com/war/
Turn on your sound...the music goes well with it.