Kinda had the same bad luck with me just a few days ago. I use my flash maybe, once a year. Well I was going to Magee Marsh where a flash is pretty much imperative. I loaded up the flash, the BB, the arm. Went over everything at least twice. Got everything.

I get to Magee and start setting up. Ooops, forgot the flash cord. Figuring it was better than nothing, attached the flash directly to the hot shoe. Unfortunately I forgot to tighten it cause when I went to put everything over my shoulder, the flash came crashing to the grass.

Luckily it was grass. The flash was ok, but the velcro got all wet and nothing would stick.

I had a really bad first 10 minutes there 🙂

Doug

While I did not use my NIK 50/50 on the bird’s plumage, fine feather detail looks great from here despite the fact that WHITEs in soft light tend not to reveal great detail…. a

ps: thought of calling it “Quazi-flash as main light…”