So that the day would not end up a waste I decided to play around with my new flash a bit using a tripod and a universal TV remote to photograph myself under the hood of my shiny new car.
I was shooting in the shade but early enough that it was still pretty bright out. For the first shot I used the kit 18-55mm zoom that came with my camera and just let it shoot/focus automatically.
Notice the remote control above my right leg as I rip two washing machine hoses I had laying around out of my car?
Next I switched the camera over to Full Manual, setting aperture to f/13 and shutterspeed to 1/250 of a second with the intent of creating a dark/underexposed image. I flipped up my cameras on board flash and set it to full power, then set my new flash to optical slave mode on full power so that it would go off whenever my camera flash fired.
I played around with using the flash as a flashlight in one hand while triggering the camera with my tv remote in the other hand for awhile before taking a couple shots of just my car and heading in for the day.
Partially desaturated in post processing using Adobe Lightroom.
