The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes

Groups!

EVERY PHOTOGRAPHER’S favorite thing! The more people in the group, the odds that something is going to go wrong, or somebody will not look good, or someone will complain, or your lights will misfire, or the person with the striped tie and the checked suit and the white socks and the welder glasses will be in the front row are so high it’s ridiculous. Scenes like this are so daunting, so difficult, so spirit-breaking as to make even the most resolute shooters dream of engaging in another profession that would presumably be more stable and remunerative, like running a roadside vegetable stand.

That’s a little extreme, but ...