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Tip of the Month: Use On Camera Fill-in Flash To Improve Your Portraits
Tip of the Month: How To Use On Camera Flash To Improve Your Portraits 
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Photo Tip of the Month
Use Fill-in Flash To
Improve Your Portraits
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Hi ,
Would you like to get better candid portraits?
Try using the flip-up flash on your camera
or a supplementary flash unit.
When you take a flash picture you're actually taking two (2) photographs in the
same frame.
- Your camera's main image is controlled by its f/stop, shutter speed & white balance. Normal exposures will be from 1/30th of a second to a few hundredths of a second.
- The flash exposure will be exposed by a bright, electronically controlled light with a duration of just thousandths of a second.
- The foreground ... flashlit picture ... will be superimposed over the natural light in the background.
Exposed properly, the "composited" foreground and background images will look totally natural! |
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Built-in Camera Flash
Shooting This Stadium Photo Was Easy
1) The camera was set on aperture priority,* 2) the flash was flipped up and 3) the shutter snapped. The camera's software did all the computation for a pleasing match of foreground to background exposure.
*A "P (Program)" setting would have worked just as well. Or, the photographer could have gone on M (Manual) and adjusted the shutter speed to lighten or darken the background image. |
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Using a Supplementary On Camera Flash |
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You can gain even more shooting flexibility with an external flash attached to your camera's hot shoe.
This 5 minute video from Ashley Boring at Westcott Lighting will give you useful, easy-to-understand tips on some finer points.
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Westcott has a nice selection of flash units & accessories for both pros & serious amateurs. |
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Please Consider Using Dale Laboratories When You're Ready To Make
Prints & Enlargements |
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- iPrints Classic is our beginners' & amateurs' site. Ordering prints is super-easy.
There's no learning curve!
- iPrints.com works on Macs, PCs & cell phones. Just choose a print size. Then, use the slider tool on computers or finger movements on your smart phone to crop your images.
- iPrints Professional is for computer proficient amateurs & pros. You'll download our ROES ordering software into your Mac or PC. ROES gives you access to hundreds of photographic & artistic products that are normally available only to professional photographers & commercial artists.
- BestFilmDeveloping.com is our online site where you can order film developing, scanning & prints. Place your order online and we'll email you a shipping label so that you can send us your exposed rolls postage free.
Any of our
free programs will allow you to print your images
to perfection.
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I hope you find these tips useful.
Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends.
Call us if you have any questions at (954) 925-0103.
We're here to help! Monday - Friday 10AM - 5PM
Saturday 10AM - 2PM |
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2960 Simms St., Hollywood, FL 33020
(800) 327-1776 • (954) 925-0105
Customer Service Hours: M - F 10AM - 5PM
www.dalelabs.com • info@dalelabs.com
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