It is difficult to get creative with on camera flash, especially when it won't bounce either. It could be used as a master flash to trigger an off camera a/c powered unit however. I used to do this before I bought my radio slaves. The unit I had would actually fit backward in the hot shoe of my film 35mm camera, and it would fire also. So I would put it in backward then put my fill light behind me and the photocell on the a/c powered unit fired when the on camera speedlight fired. If your speedlight will not work backward in the hot shoe I would take a small cardboard box that is about the same size as the speedlight, cut off the top and one end and line the inside with aluminum foil, then rubber band it to the speedlight. When it fires it will direct all the light into the box, but since the end is still there as well as both sides and the bottom, the light will be directed straight up to the ceiling where the photocell of the a/c powered unit will sense the burst of light and fire.
Benji
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