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Flash Tips
Using Flash Outdoors in Daylight
There are a number of situations when using a flash outdoors in daylight is helpful. Its not mandatory, nor essential but can often help out a photo...
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Check out the Catch-light
You’ve seen them, but do you know what they are, ... or what they’re called? That white sparkle in the eye of a photo subject, it’s called a catch-light. The catch-light is...
Daylight Fill Flash
You don’t always need a large flash unit to take advantage of this technique, you can get a similar result using...
Diffusion on the Spot
When you're photographing indoors, most of the time the artificial light is insufficient for good sharp photos - so bring your flash! Even better, bring a friend who can hold up a large white board, and bounce your flash into the board, rather than directly at the person - the light will be much softer, and, more importantly, it'll have a direction other than directly from above the lens...
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DonÃt Use Flash!
Your first inclination is to turn on the flash and add light to the scene. Sometimes you’ll get a better photo if you learn to fight that urge....
Dragging The Shutter
The effect is from combining flash with a slow shutter speed in just the right balance. To accomplish this you need to...
Flowers Webinar - Flash for Flower and Macro Photography
To capture detail and sharpness in close-up macro flower photography there are a number of techniques available to a photographer. When shooting Flowers, especially in macro photography it is often useful when striving for sharpness, contrast and saturation to add a little flash. Very often the camera and or the photographer are so close to the flower a shadow is cast on the subject itself. By adding a little lighting boost with some supplemental flash you bring that extra sparkle back into the photo. This also works well in overcast conditions, rainy days or when the subject is situated in shadow such as shooting wild orchids in deep forest.
Forced Flash On
Digital Photo Academy and LivinginHD present a free monthly series of photography webinars on LivinginHD.com. Your host, John Bentham answers many questions live during the webinars. Additional questions, answers and tips are posted here on digitalphotoacademy.com where you can also view the archived webinars.
Great cathedrals, require great lighting
Great cathedrals make for great images. The exposure in any auto mode, including Aperture or Shutter priority, should have an exposure compensation of -2, using ETTL or center-weighted. Bracket up/down 1 stop...
Not Everything Has To Be Fill Flashed...
Every once in a while I come across a scene in my daily photographic encounters, knowing that if the subject knows I am there, the mood, and whole scene, will be altered forever.
On Camera Flash Modifiers
When shooting animals or other subjects outdoors in bright sun your initial assessment would be - It’s bright outside, I don’t need a flash? However shooting outside with flash is helpful for certain subjects and necessary more often than you think. There are times when areas of the scene are just too bright in comparison to others...
Outdoor Portrait Control Lighting by Russ Burden
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