If you have the 360FGZ then you could lower the flash out put using the compensation on the flash? Alternatively you could take a projector screen or some white card with you and bounce off that. The other thing you may want to look at is a gold diffuser, stofen do them and they can give pleasing skin tones.
Alternatively, you could use contrast techniques in your image editor to adjust things like this: http://www.calcot.plus.com/Pentax/TanIMGP1386.jpg I think that may be closer to what you are looking for? Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Tanya Mayer Photography [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Still, I think there is a bit too much flash on some of those > shots toward the end - still learning about flash in a major > way, so I expect that this will improve over time... > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I may "soften" the effect of the flash? I do > have a diffuser over it, but I'm not getting hotspots anyways, which is a great thing. I am > just wanting to soften so that it doesn't appear to dominate the entire picture, such as in > this shot: > > http://www.tanyamayer.com/avagallery/pages/IMGP1386.html