Small AC powered flash units triggered by slave units like the one pictured here can help illuminate a picture.
Setting up and using small AC flash units can turn an ordinary picture into something more interesting. Even if the small AC flash units are not wirelessly controlled, you can attach slave units and they will fire at the same time as the main flash mounted on the camera. Remember when shooting this way, the flash will be firing at full power unless it has an external power setting control.
Instructions
1. Set your camera on a tripod and select a shooting position. Look through the viewfinder to visually identify the entire scene you will be photographing.
2. Select areas in your picture that you feel will need some additional light. One suggestion is to place small flash units into lamps. Since flash units produce a different temperature and are often more powerful than the bulb that is in a lamp, the lights will look they are turned on in the photograph.
3. Attach slave triggers to the bottom of the flash units and attach the flashes to mini-tripods, if needed, by screwing the small tripods into the bottom of the slave units.
4. Position the small flash units and plug them into an AC wall outlet. Turn the flash units and your camera on and take a test shot to see how the scene looks with the additional light.
5. Make any final adjustments to the flash units, for position or angle, and then take your final picture.
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