Here is a shot that I took the other night in Chinatown. We had a ton of lighting gear and a portable generator but I got this with an on camera flash and no tripod. OK here how it worked I used a long lens to pull in background and compress the image about 105mm set my focus to continuous because the model was walking into the shot my ISO was set to 640, Thats about as high as you can go with out to much noise. My shutter was set to 30th of a second and my f stop was F4. I wanted F4 so I could get a nice blur on the background. My white balance is set to flash. Now the tricky part was getting the flash to a little soft and directional at the same time. I could have used the big soft box and studio strobe that we had but the problem with that was it was to powerful and it would overpower the background light. The lowest setting on that flash would have got me a f11 and I would have to drag my shutter to about 2 seconds to get the background in. So what I did was to set my on camera to 1/8 power and pointed it straight up (in the vertical format it would point to left.) Then all I needed was something to bounce the flash off of. There was a guy that we were using for security and he had a white shirt and a broad back. So I had him stand just to left of me with his back to me and used him as a bounce board. Now in hindsight I wish I bought a big foam core or a pop open reflector but this was a good improvisation. I also made sure that the model was walking in a pretty dark area so she would not blur to much. You can see a little blurring on the edges but I really like that.
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