There's lots of talk and websites that deal with the topic of flash photography. There's even an industry that only provides flash kit, Elinchrom, Profoto and co. However sometimes we reach for the flashgun because that's what you do when it gets dark don't you? Canon Ambassador and wedding photographer supreme, Jeff Ascough makes quite a point for not using flash for a wedding ever and being a better photographer for it in his recent blog post 'On the other side of the camera'. If you skip over the first part about filming then read the part below the dotted line Jeff shares his views on why he doesn't use flash for weddings.

I'm not saying Jeff's view is right for all photographers, there are other highly skilled professional wedding photographers using flash a lot in their pictures, but the point of Jeff about the lack of intrusion in the 'no flash' approach is not the key here. Actually it's the 'better photographer' bit that appeals. One of the curses of the amateur photographer is gear envy, the mindset that more gear means better pictures. I like the challenge of being restricted on the gear front and sometimes find I explore photo situations better for it. For some time I used an EOS 400D and 28mm f/1.8 USM lens as a lightweight travel camera and got some great results because the limitation challenged me to take better pictures with a limited set of kit, I needed to be more creative and searching for the pictures to work. For some photographers the low gear maximum creativity approach works, but it's also nice to open a camera bag and wonder what else the industry makes that you don't have with you!

Apologies for the 'no post Wednesday' seems EOS Network wasn't the only ones with article difficulties yesterday... check out Scott Kelby's blog.