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Actually, Molly, your post has already helped me tremendously. I never had thought about using a flash unit in combination with a softbox.
From what I'd read here and on sites dealing with photography,
I thought that in order to get good photo lighting you either had to use:
a. natural light only
b. artificial light - continuous, like a softbox or umbrella
c. flash - strobe only
Your mention of a softbox plus a slave flash was a paradigm shift. I've gone ahead and ordered a small slave flash unit to try out.
I was trying to pick up some tips, similar to what you see in photography magazines, such as where the lights were placed, what exposure the picture was taken at, etc. because I find that I have learned a lot from reading about what other people do. But you are so right; nothing takes the place of practice and experimentation.
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