The Trick to Making Light Look Good Without a Softbox

Fact: Most of my flash photography is done without a softbox of any kind. For several years, I swore by umbrellas. But that's not really the case anymore. When you're getting into portraiture and you're a photographer on a budget, sometimes you don't have the money to buy umbrellas, softboxes, etc. So the best things for you to generally do is learn how to photograph someone with a flash firing directly at them. This is what lots of shooters do, and sometimes it delivers awesome results but other times it really doesn't.