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By: Tommy Stephens

Professional Photography Tips
A lot of flashes for regular cameras are small electronics that are
built-in. Professional photographers use more expensive and advanced
equipment. Professional flashes all have manual controls and are
outside of the unit, providing much more light with much better
controls. Flashes are mostly used indoors as the main source of light
when the area is too dark to get quality photographs. In weddings, for
example, flashes are also used in sunny conditions, in order to fill
the shadows. Harsh sun lighting can ruin a good photographs and wedding photographers use their manually set flashes to fill some of
those dark spots.

Red eye ?obe gone?
"Red eye" is one of the most commonly mentioned complaints in regards
to built-in camera flashes of point-and-shoot cameras. Having all the
people in your images with vampire-like red glowing eyes is not
really pretty for any subject, however this is one of the most
difficult challenges the flash has to offer. The problem comes from
the fact that the human?Ts eye retina mirrors the red light from the
flash right back at the camera. So the problem is essentially not
really camera?Ts fault. Some cameras have a "red eye reduction"
software or even features that emits a few pre flash light flashes
that aim to get the iris of the eye to contract by the time the main
flash comes the chance of the red eye effect appearing is reduced.
Red eye reduction software work with red color of the eyes, in order
to darken the color. Professional flash units usually don?Tt have
such big problems with red eyes.

Shadows
Using the built-in camera flash can result people in photos looking
extremely bad, ruining an image completely. The shadows cast by the
flash can make the subject of the picture look very harsh. To lower
these effects try to take your photos against a dark background, or
even better in the middle of a room with no set background at all. If
you take your photos against a white wall the in-built flash will not
be able to provide results you?Td want. More serious flash units are
able to tilt in different directions. Sometimes it?Ts all that is
needed to fill the shadows.

Serious stuff
For those who wish to take more than family snapshots it is advisable
to purchase a camera with a separate flash unit. There are many types
available with prices from $50-$500. More expensive units provide
better quality, flash intensity and recycle time.

All of the above can appear in photographs using a camera with a
built-in flash, can be improved or completely illuminated by having a
separate flash. This is because those effects are caused by the flash
and the camera lens being positioned too close to each other.

By holding the separate flash unit away from the camera, the harsh
shadows and outline effects can be reduced or completely avoided!

To reduce the effects of red eye with a separate flash unit, putting
the flash away from the subject of the photograph and bouncing the
light of the ceiling or maybe a wall or a photo reflector, still
delivers adequate lighting, but does not result in red eyes in
subjects.

The best way to identify any problems and avoid them is to understand
flash photography. Many photographers around the world spend
countless of hours, trying to perfect their knowledge of lighting.
There are countless of books written on the subject as well. Maybe
you want to become one of Toronto wedding photographers or high-end
Hollywood fashion photographer-the knowledge of light and shadows is
what photography is all about. Perfecting this would open many doors
in the industry and help you to look at the world around you from a
completely different perspective.

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