Flash Slave's

It would help if you shared what model of flash you own.

If the detatchable flash can be triggered with the camera's build in flash,
you shouldn't need to spend any money.
If not you will need to get yourself a remote flash trigger.

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You would need to set up the slave flash on a tripod, using the trigger attached to the flash.
Then set it up so it gives 1 stop less light than what the camera will deliver.
Ideally you want this flash to lighten up the background.

When you take the shot, the camera flash will light up the subject, whilst triggering the second flash, which will light up the background.

HTH
 
I am using a Jessops 300AFD Digital flash, and i have purchased the flash trigger, except when the cameras built in flash takes a series of flashes to set the cameras white balence, and the remote flash is been triggered on the first one. Is there anyway to change this?
 
Those pre-flashes are also to set the flash exposure on your camera. This shot has two flashes one on the camera (or firing from the same direction) and one firing from the right so a slave cell isn't much use.

Can you disable the pre-flash on your camera? If so it means shooting manually with a bit of expreimentation to get your settings and then add the off camera flash.

Some off camera flashes can bet set to ignore the pre-flash but I doubt the jessops job will be specced up enough to have this feature.

You could get another cheap flash gun off ebay, mount the slave cell pictured on your camera, mount one flash on the slave cell to give the fill light from the front and have the 2nd flash to the side.

Unfortunately I think you'll struggle just having 1 flashgun and the on camera flash.
 
I think the reciever can only be plugged into a flash head not a flash gun by the looks of it. I'm looking for something like that at the minute but one that has a hot shoe connection so I can cobble it up with some cheap old flashes.
 
Chase, there is no way to get that first slave adaptor to work, even a flashgun fitted to the camera will emit a preflash, otherwise the camera cannot meter for the shot. The one listed by Carl looks ideal though, and cheap which gets my vote :)
 
Metz guns don't use a pre-flash if I remember rightly. They get praised for the fact that they don't have pre-flash so there's no lazy eye in the photos.
 
hhmm, the preflash is a function of the camera (I've always thought) and needed to correctly meter the shot, without it the camera has no idea what exposure to use.
 
I think with the metz the camera meters as it would without a flash and the flash fills the shadows. The metz has a light sensor thing built into it I think which is why it doesn't have a pre-flash.

On some cameras, although the Dynax 7D is the only one I know of, you can disable the on camera pre-flash in one of the menus.
 
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