Help please!

[Qveon]

I do the "camera in one hand, flash in the other" dance pretty regularly, with the curly phone-cord style sync cord. It helps to have a light camera, though. I can't imagine doing it for long with the higher end bodies. Of course, I'm not some burly mustachioed paramedic, either.

I have tried this method and like you said it's hard to do. hard to hold on to everything if you get bumped or if you need to zoom. and a flash bracket, no I haven't used that.

 

[o hey tyler]

First off the OP or you guys can do it however you want. My word is not law, but when all the content to a post is "get flash off camera" that vague advice sucks and is rude to the OP asking for help. Just like everyone else posted a method for OCF I gave him an option I use with success with on-camera flash. Which IMO is easier for me, your mileage will vary. But continue attacking me for calling someone out and providing content to a thread.

edit: then notice that a couple posts later Joe posted his experience on how he worked with this problem. So props to Joe for being mature and adding his content to the thread without retaliating against me.

Actually telling someone their advice sucks is far more rude than offering suggestions

 

[Ballistics]

I do the "camera in one hand, flash in the other" dance pretty regularly, with the curly phone-cord style sync cord. It helps to have a light camera, though. I can't imagine doing it for long with the higher end bodies. Of course, I'm not some burly mustachioed paramedic, either.

I have tried this method and like you said it's hard to do. hard to hold on to everything if you get bumped or if you need to zoom. and a flash bracket, no I haven't used that.

He didn't say it is hard to do because it's not.

It is IMPRACTICAL to setup a staged elaborate off camera flash while trying to catch a candid moment.

Using a bracket is not impractical. Using a sync cord is not impractical. Seems like you lack any real world experience to be telling anyone that their advice sucks.

 

[jmtonkin]

So, with the flash bracket, would that have helped with the top of the frame being brighter?

 

[Ballistics]

So, with the flash bracket, would that have helped with the top of the frame being brighter?

Not necessarily. I don't know what the venue looked like, but in this case, a simple rear bounce may have solved your problem.

The lens is also another issue. The image is suffering from wicked chromatic abberation.

 

[cgipson1]

Oh, and Matt, before you ride off into the sunset in the secure knowledge that you're right, you might want to experience more of life- especially the bit about how to use a flash and what's practically useless on one.

First off the OP or you guys can do it however you want. My word is not law, but when all the content to a post is "get flash off camera" that vague advice sucks and is rude to the OP asking for help. Just like everyone else posted a method for OCF I gave him an option I use with success with on-camera flash. Which IMO is easier for me, your mileage will vary. But continue attacking me for calling someone out and providing content to a thread.

edit: then notice that a couple posts later Joe posted his experience on how he worked with this problem. So props to Joe for being mature and adding his content to the thread without retaliating against me.

Nobody else used the word "SUCKS"! Which you used again above! Maybe mellow out a little bit in your word choices, and people won't be so quick to "retaliate"... although I would hardly call it that!