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These days SLR and compact digital cameras offer a number of flash modes to choose from.  Flash is incredibly useful if you can master the way you use it.  A separate flashgun will always be ore flexible than an on camera flash but not something that you may all you have access to.  Here are some of the more popular modes and what they mean.
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So you’ve just seen the most wonderful photo opportunity jump right out in front of you and scream to have it’s picture taken. The baby is just so cute, and it’s got this HUGE smile, and even has a little grin on it’s face. You grab your trusty camera, flip it on and start to snap away happily, getting in nice and close. You hear a sudden CLICK from your camera’s flash, and look to the back of the camera only to see a bleached and almost white outline of what looks like a head.

If you’ve been taking pictures for any length of time, you’ve probably run in to a situation like this. Or perhaps you’ve used flash at a time when it seems like you would need it, only to find that it produced oily-looking highlights on people’s skin, and made them into red-eyed demons from the underworld.

The thing about using a flash is you have to know when and how to use it! For any photograph you have a few options to choose between when it comes to light. Mind you, there are a large variety of options within these, but these are the main place to start from when choosing a type of lighting. Read the rest of this entry »