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on camera flash is a loser for shooting skin, sure you can get an image, but all you will be doing is destroying the beauty of the model going this route.
luckily even the cheapest consumer digicams can be used with strobes if you use a little tricky technique using the on-camera flash to trigger a slaved flash.
take a piece of developed color film (the end piece that has been exposed to light and run through the chemistry---it will have an almost black look to it. cut a piece of it and use scotch tape to cover your existing on-camera flash with this nearly opaque film.
the purpose of this is to kill the light of the on-camera flash so it does not impact the image, but just allow enough light through to trigger the slave flash which we will bounce the light off an umbrella or large white board onto the model.
and then you will have the studio look with a cheap ass consumer digicam. (but you do need a strobe head---find one on ebay)
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