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The other problem with using on camera flash is the pin point spot of light in the pupils. That is a dead giveaway that an on camera flash was used.
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Huge point here. Like swampler, I'm using speedlights to light my portraits. I have a 580 on the camera a a IR master, and two 430s as IR slaves. I use a bracket to get the on camera flash up and over to the side. I generally bounce this into a reflector for fill, instead of pointing directly at the subject. The easiest for you would be to bounce it into a large piece of white foam core, just to the right or left of the camera. This does a lot to increase and diffuse the light from the flash. Even so, sometimes there is light from the bare head that creates this central catch light, you can see it in this one (
Big Al On A Stool). In the past, I'll take a small piece of black foam core, and rubber band it to the front side of the flash head, as in the opposite of a bounce card.