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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spb_stan" data-source="post: 765247" data-attributes="member: 43545">A shoe-to-flash cable is the cheapest way to use flash off shoe but controllers are very inexpensive now. I have 6 flash and 2 large strobes I built myself. The Nikon flashes, 3 of them, are SB900s and I have 3 Yongnuo YN968 which are actually 1/6th the price and about twice as functional as the SB900s, they have build in wireless controllers and receivers so I can control the beam width and flash power of all 6 from one 968 or using my 622tx controller on the shoe so 6 lights wirelessly controlled by the 622TX.  A ring light is useful or closeup shots like this one.  There are two views on flash: love it or hate it. The only difference is those who have only seen images badly used flash.. Many beginners take pride in shooting only in natural light but light is light and every great photo has some creative control of light. You have probably never seen a commercial photo that did not have augmented controllable light. Without some control of light, the core substance of photography, would be like a writer tearing out 1/2 or more of the pages of a dictionary and only using words remaining.Flash is cheap and cures many ills such as making small aperture lenses produce what the were looking for when looking at $2000 lenses, or being able to shoot at lower speeds and still freeze action, for balance light of near verse more distant lower light by "dragging the shutter" as the technique is called, for a longer exposure on a dim background but the very fast rise and fall times of the flash freezes foreground subjected balancing the dimmer scene light with the strong but very short flash. Nikon's Balanced Flash system is excellent.The cool part of current flash offerings are vey reliable high performance flash from a number of Chinese brands that start at about $30, and very good ones for $49 that have the features of the $650 SB9x0 series.</blockquote>

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