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Mastering On-Camera Flash: Techniques for Capturing Stunning Photos

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Learn how to effectively use on-camera flash to enhance your photography skills. This guide covers crucial techniques such as reducing flash intensity, utilizing diffusers to soften the light, and experimenting with flash exposure compensation. Discover how to adjust your camera settings in Program, Aperture, or Shutter priority mode to get the best results. Engage in a practical activity that involves taking multiple shots of your subject with varying flash settings, enabling you to see the impact of different exposures. Perfect for beginners and enthusiasts alike!

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Mastering On-Camera Flash: Techniques for Capturing Stunning Photos

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  1. On-Camera Flash When and how to make it beneficial to your photographs

  2. Reduce your flash intensity • Many cameras will have a setting for flash intensity. Find it. This will essentially just turn down the brightness of your flash, which will avoid overexposing your subjects' faces. • You must be in Program, Aperture or Shutter speed priority or manual mode to change your flash power. F.exp. 0 F.exp. -2

  3. Examples using on-camera flash

  4. Where to reduce flash intensity

  5. Make a diffuser • External flash units turn out better photos because they have bigger, better bulbs, mostly, but also because they're often fitted with a diffuser. These accessories soften your flash's harsh glow, but they're both expensive and generally impossible to fit onto your mom's point-and-shoot • A coffee filter held in front of a flash, a translucent film canister with a notch cut into it, a simple piece of A4 paper or even a piece of matte Scotch tape over the flash lens will measurably improve your drunk party photography.

  6. Activity • Pick an object or a person to be your subject. • Take your first picture of your subject with the flash set to 0. Your ISO should be 200. White balance should be?? (You figure it out) • Next take a picture with the following flash exp. compensation settings: 0, -1, -2, +1, +2 • Upload each to Photoshop. Put all of the photos into one document, side by side, and label each photo with the flash exp. Number it was set to. • Save as a jpg. • Turn into turn-in folder, with your name on it.

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