Don’t Use Your Pop-Up Flash to Try to Fire Your Hot Shoe Flash. Ever
You can use the pop-up flash that’s built into your camera to fire your flash once it’s off your camera. I’m going to tell you how to do it, but just know now, up front, that you should never ever do it. Never! It’s a trap that has brought down stronger men than me. While technically it should work, it absolutely will not work when your client shows up, or when you’re shooting a wedding, or when it simply just matters that it actually fires. It has a reliability quotient that lies somewhere between a men’s room hands-free faucet and a Fiat 500L. The idea is simple: You switch ...
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