Attention photographers. This is why you never use those silly, big flash brackets while standing in front of other photographers:
I’m standing in the second row – on a 20-inch riser – at a Toronto entertainment event. I’m shooting overtop a front row of standing photographers.
Notice that you can’t see the front row of standing photographers nor can you see their cameras or flashes. Except . . .
Except that one guy, in the front row, using one those big flash brackets. In the front row. In every single picture.
The musicians are standing 17 feet away and they’re fully lit by two large front lights and two hair lights, all supplied by the event. These four large lights were specifically colour-balanced to match the existing eight overhead lights, (ISO 1000, f5.6 at 1/160). Why even use a flash?
News and entertainment events are not weddings. In these situations, big flash brackets serve no purpose other than to block other photographers.
