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On-Camera Flash

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

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On-Camera Flash

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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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