QUESTION - FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY
Flash is one of those things that can be most useful and really awful if not used 'correctly'
Sadly most pics we see from parties etc. is via in-camera flash and people never look good under those conditions
I use in-camera flash regularly -and- also external flash "as needed"
I use in-camera flash to fill shadows when shooting stuff heavy with shadow and where I want to lift the shadows to save PP later on -or- to lift shadows more than PP can easily achieve. (sample attached). I'm sure you well know that all sensors have issues with underexposure ... bringing the very dark bits to 'bright' also brings out colour artifacts (funny splotches) so by using flash in the original shoot minimises those artifacts
I also use the in-camera flash with output set to 1/4 to activate an external flash set up as a slave. The 2nd flash might be about 1-1/2 to 2-metres away @ 45deg to 90deg sideways, red receiver set towards the camera but flash head pointing to the subject, and it fires and creates the image / shadows / highlights for me
So there are uses for the in-camera flash once you have done some experimenting
Hope this helps
Phil
This old dead tree branch was lit by very bright heavy sun and I used the flash to bring the blacks up to 'viewable'
exif- Panny FZ-2500; 1/400s x F8,0; ISO-200; lens at 1x zoom / 24mm FF equiv
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