I get hired a great deal to cover events. Of course, everyone with a camera could cover these events, but I make my photos look different every chance.

Here in these photos, I am using off-camera flash to help improve the images. The sun is behind the lady on the left in this first photo, hitting the man’s face. The sun behind puts them in a silhouette, and the way I fixed this was to have my assistant hold the flash on a monopod up high, pointing down at them.

Nikon D4, 14-24mm, ISO 100, ƒ/7.1, 1/50, off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash & Neewer 433MHz Wireless 16 Channel Flash Remote Trigger

The flash is off to my right, pointing at the ladies on the left. You can see again that I would be creating a silhouette of their faces without this flash. Had I used a flash on the camera, I would have flattened the features. However, by having the assistant hold the light up high, I still get some shape to the cheekbones of the ladies.

Nikon D4, 14-24mm, ISO 640, ƒ/5.6, 1/200, off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash & Neewer 433MHz Wireless 16 Channel Flash Remote Trigger

Here the assistant is bouncing the flash off the ceiling inside the room. I am just raising the light level inside so that the outside is balanced and not washed out with no details.

Nikon D4, 28-300mm, ISO 2000, ƒ/5.6, 1/40, off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash on S2 [slave setting] with the Nikon SB900 and SB800 on Pocketwizard TT5 triggered by the TT1 and AC3 to control their output.

Nikon D4, 28-300mm, ISO 1250, ƒ/5.6, 1/100, off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash on S2 [slave setting] with the Nikon SB900 and SB800 on Pocketwizard TT5 triggered by the TT1 and AC3 to control their output.

Nikon D4, 28-300mm, ISO 800, ƒ/5.6, 1/100, off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash on S2 [slave setting] with the Nikon SB900 and SB800 on Pocketwizard TT5 triggered by the TT1 and AC3 to control their output.

The room has three flashes, all syncing with the camera. I have the Nikon SB-900 and Nikon SB-800 working on TTL and triggered by the PocketWizard system. The Neewer TT850 has a 2nd flash setting to work with TTL flashes. The light in the room was so mixed with different color temperatures that I wanted to clean this up with the flash.

Nikon D4, 28-300mm, ISO 10000, ƒ/7.1, 1/100, off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash & Neewer 433MHz Wireless 16 Channel Flash Remote Trigger

Nikon D4, 14-24mm, ISO 640, ƒ/2.8, 1/25, off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash & Neewer 433MHz Wireless 16 Channel Flash Remote Trigger

With all these photos, the camera was on Aperture priority, and I am winking the flash slightly brighter than the ambient light. Often the same light value or +  1/2 stop is more incredible to clean up the color and give a little pop to the images.

I know that if anyone were shooting with the iPhone or point-and-shoot camera, they would not be getting this quality of images. They are different. Having your photos look better than a smartphone camera is very important if you want to be working, because if my pictures didn’t look other than what they can make with their cameras, why hire you?