How the Past 10 Years Changed How I Light Photos

When I first got into photography, my photojournalism professor always taught me to never use flash. Why? Honestly, I'm still not sure. But I had good mentors when I worked at B&H Photo over a decade ago. They completely changed my understanding of why you'd use a flash. For years, people taught me that you only use a flash when you don't have enough light. But the truth is that you use a flash when you want to add creativity to your images. It's part of why I started the Creating the Photograph series here on the Phoblographer. To this day, it still is one of photography's greatest magic tricks in that it creates something that the human eye can't see in a matter of split seconds. And so over the past 10 years, I've changed as a photographer. And how I light has also changed.