Popping up

Open that built-in flash! We need light! We spent a fortune on this D800, it must do amazing things. People are always telling the pros "That's so beautiful, you must have a really expensive camera!" We HAVE a really expensive camera, so our picture are going to be amazing too, right? Right?

1/80th at f/5.6, ISO 100

WTF? This was supposed to be a stuffed teddy bear in all it's glory. we used all this expensive stuff, this should look like a catalogue shot, shouldn't it?

Well, it don't.

Plan A failed. Miserably. But we have a plan B! We got an SB-900 to go with this. That's more expensive, it must make better images. Let's try that!