Night Street flash photography

[badboy1984]

I've never shoot outdoor night time using flash. I usually shoot night landscape stuff where i just need camera and tripod so i won't need to worry about image blur etc.

I'm going on holiday soon and want to take snap shots of friends/girl friend during a night street walk around.

I can bump up my iso on my D7000 and should get the job done easily but was wondering what can a flash gun will offer on this scenario?

Obviously i got nothing to bounce except the bounce card on the flash ........ but that means ......

 

[Alastair]

It will give you fill flash for balancing the foreground against the background, if you want to capture the ambience of the night you'll be wanting faces well lit and exposed whilst the background is still dark enough to look like night and reveal the glow of shopfronts and streetlights.