get some means of firing the flash off camera (optical(optical would require a digital slave that ignores the pre-flash) or radio slaves) and you now have a three light set-up.
3????
1) ambient light
2) built-in pop-up light
3) off camera light. (you can use this one to fire other lights when you get them.)

so you decide which is going to be your main light for any scene, then decide how to use the others.

for example:

you may decide to use your off camera flash as main light for a portrait subject.
you start by metering your background (perhaps setting to underexpose by 1.5 stops).
you set up your off camera flash unit to output (in your case, moving the flash closer or further from the subject) to put out 1.5 stops more than your ambient exposre to correctly expose the subject.

good reading :
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amaturish..... real bullying starts with an atomic wedgie, so bad you wind up flossing your teeth with the waistband of your tighty-whities, for a warm up. Then it gets worse.

Seems other macheads have good taste:
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I shop for motorcycle parts, robot/electronics parts, from all kinds of places....so for me I just use throw away acounts...better safe than sorry.
but like I said, if yahoo or google want to go after spammers great! not my area of expertise....
I only get a half dozen or so a month on average, any that look like smut or phishing scams I forward on to apple.
How many do you guys get on average per month? I wouldn't know what windoze is like, but hear scary stories...

To be honest, I don't do much of anything. I use a few rules on my inbox to bounce some stuff..the mail program learns as it goes...then takes over, automattically bouncing the junk. .I get five or six emails a month, I forward them on to [email protected], and Apple blocks them.
I use yahoo, to create throwaway email accounts for use with any sites/companies that need email for registration/short term accounts. (like say I want to register software or buy something online) they can spam that all they want....not my problem.

in six years only one problem one phone call, repaired for free, even out of warrenty.
irregardless of the cost of replacement parts, I've never had or heard of any pc shop going that far, to make a customer happy. Six years..no viruses/spyware/spamed up mailboxes, random crashes, hardware/software crashes..... First problem, one phone call.

Call me happy!

I like it.
The peoples in the frame add scale.....
looks like a magazine add spread with ample room for copy/text.

Everybody here knows I'm a Machead.
people often debate mac vs pc and ask which to buy.
Well here's an interesting tidbit for ya'all.
What ever you decide on, it pays to stick with one brand, and preferably one dealer.

I got an iMac g5 that bit the biscuit last week.
3.5 years old, out of warrenty.
Failed logic board.
Cost to replace? $976.00 plus labout $75.00/hr.
One call to apple canada.....
(after reviewing the list of hardware/software we've bought over the last five years.....(lotz....$$$$))

"Bring it to your dealer, we appreciate your business. We'll make an exception, and have that fixed. No Charge." Josh, Customer Relations, Apple Canada.....

Weight that when you're debating what to buy.....

Been really busy this last couple weeks.
I see there's lots of new people.
Hi and Welcome to you all.
I should've responded to each and every one of you....
but I've been busy logging a few thousand kms on my new (to me) motorcycle.
Wedding season is over....no coporate work till next week....
I'm the happiest unemployed person on the planet right now.
Soon it will be snowing, and I'll have lots more time to get to know ya'all!
(yes, you should feel very threatened).

let me see. grandmas lye soap....
run water through ashes from fire pit.
takes filtered ash water and boil down or let eveaporate to a thick caustic sludge.
mix said sludge with animal fat (usually cow)....
Call it soap.

Grandma's...gotta love 'em.
My Grandsma, Bless her Soul, was a saint.
She was also like a Kung -Fu master with her broom.
When my Grandma reached for her broom, all ten of her children, any of the twenty-five or so grandchildren, and any bears in the vicinty, ran like hell for cover!