Be Ready To Abandon Your Plan

When we took the engagement shoot into the classroom, I set up my flash on a light stand and behind a shoot-through umbrella. I wanted some soft directional lighting. I didn't like the results. Instead of wasting everyone's time futzing around with my equipment, I abandoned the effort and just put the flash on my camera hot shoe and bounced the light off the ceiling. I'm certainly not giving up on lighting subjects using an off-camera flash, but I need to practice more before trying it on important photo shoots. Just for fun, here's a shot Basile took of me setting up the umbrella.