Your Flash Has a Built-In Wide-Angle Diffuser . . .

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. . . and it’s not awesome, but once again, it’s better than nothing if you don’t have anything else to diffuse the light from your flash, so your shadows are less harsh. This wide-angle diffuser is built into your flash (it’s right beside the built-in bounce card on most Canon, Nikon, Sony, Phottix, and Yongnuo flashes). You slide it out from that little slot in the back of your flash head, right between the flash itself and the body of the flash unit, and you tilt it down so it covers the flash head (as seen above). These wide-angle diffusers have a repeating pattern etched into the plastic ...

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